May 2014 Edition

A.K. TRAVEL AIR

Ashwanni Ratti Travel Consultant TICO Reg. number: 50016466

Higher Standards Agents... Higher Results!

Buy • Sell • Lease

Sunday (Sunny) Adodo

We deal with all majors airlines Traveling to Ghana, Nigeria or anywhere around the world.

We offer great services and best fares INSURANCE TOURS PACKAGES Tel: 416-740-0740 2649 Islington Ave., 2nd Floor, Toll Free : 1-800-461-5164 Etobicoke, ON M9V 2X6 Email: ashwaniratti@yahoo.ca

Sales Representative

Cell: 647-200-7359

HomeLife Woodbine Realty Inc., Brokerage Each Office Independently Owned & Operated

680 Rexdale Blvd., Unit #200, Toronto ON M9W 0B5

Off: 416-741-4443 Fax: 416-679-0443

sadodo@rogers.com www.sunnyadodo.ca

CDN$1, US$1, N200

NIGERIA N TO INFORM • EDUCATE • EMPOWER • ENTERTAIN

THE

C A N A D I A N N E W S

Vol 9 | Issue 5 | May 2014 | “THE THIRD EYE OF THE COMMUNITY” | Tel: 416-318-3506 | publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca | www.nigeriancanadiannews.ca

MAYA ANGELOU

JOHNSON BABALOLA LAW OFFICE (JBLAW)

AIR CANADA AIR FRANCE BRITISH AIRWAYS DELTA EMIRATES ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES KLM LUFTHANSA SINGAPORE AIRLINES TURKISH AIRLINES

Poet, Author, Civil Rights Activist (1928–2014)

You name it, we have it!

Call 11am-7pm

Amira Atufa 416 485 6329 416 817 2424 [cell] Email: amira@airliners.ca

Johnson Babalola

Head Office: 1220 Ellesmere Rd Suite 1, Toronto M1P 2X5 TICO #4631677

We are a reputable Canadian Immigration & Business Law Firm. We handle:

1. All Aspects of Immigration & Refugee Matters 2. Business Law 3. Nigeria: Real Estate Transactions etc 4. Adoption from Nigeria 5. Specialized Professional Training

RICHARD ODELEYE

LAW FIRM

Tel: 416-603-9191 x 223 Fax: 416-603-9190 E-mail: info@jblaw.ca Internet: www.jblaw.ca

(Richielaw)

170 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario M2N 3A4 We also have Representatives in Nigeria.

Maya Angelou is a poet and award-winning memoirist known for the acclaimed poetry collection I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Born on April 4, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, writer and civil rights activist Maya Angelou is known for her 1969 memoir, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as

U.S. ANNOUNCES NEW VISA RENEWAL PROCESS FOR NIGERIANS - see page 15

the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman.

In 1971, Angelou published the Pulitzer Prize-nominated poetry collection Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die. She later wrote the poem “On the Pulse of Morning”—one of her most famous works—which she recited at President Bill Clinton’s inauguration in 1993. Angelou has received several honors throughout her career, including two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding literary work (nonfiction) category, in 2005 and 2009.

Multi-talented barely seems

to cover the depth and breadth of Maya Angelou’s accomplishments. She is an author, actress, screenwriter, dancer and poet.

Born Marguerite Annie Johnson, Angelou had a difficult childhood.

Her parents split up when she was very young, and she and her older brother, Bailey, were sent to live with their father’s mother, Anne Henderson, in Stamps, Arkansas.

As an African American, Angelou experienced firsthand racial prejudices and discrimination in Arkansas. She also suffered at the hands of a family associate around the age of 7: During a visit

with her mother, Angelou was raped by her mother’s boyfriend.

Then, as vengeance for the sexual assault, Angelou’s uncles killed the boyfriend. So traumatized by the experience, Angelou stopped talking. She returned to Arkansas and spent years as a virtual mute.

During World War II, Angelou moved to San Francisco, California, where she won a scholarship to study dance and acting at the California Labor School.

Also during this time, Angelou became the first black female cable car conductor—a job she continued on p(36)

Highground Immigration Services Inc. - Immigration - Settlement - Student Admission Fast Track Response to Canadian Immigration Needs

• Integrity and competence.

• Quality representation and sound advice.

• Realistic promises backed up with action.

203 - 1370 Don Mills Rd. Toronto, ON. M3B 3N7 Tel: 647- 997-9054 Fax: 289-232-9361 Email: highgroundimmigration@gmail.com

Website: www.highgroundimmigration.com

www.richlawfirm.ca

170 Sheppard Avenue East, Suite 302, Toronto, ON M2N 3A4

WHETHER YOU ARE BUYING OR SELLING, UNIQUELY QUALIFIED TO BE THE MAN

Available AUTO PARTS for all makes & models

• Lowest Rates • We Ship Worldwide • Lots of Storage

Matt Esekie

Load up to 6 cars

Sales Representative

360 Eddystone Avenue North York, ON M3N 1H4 • email: fastlineshipping@live.ca

Telephone: 416-742-5858 • Cell: 416-854-3053 • Fax: 416-742-5859

INFORMATION SEMINAR IN TORONTO

STUDY MEDICINE AT ALL SAINTS UNIVERSITY • UP TO 50% TUITION FEE SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE • ACCREDITED MD (MBBS) DEGREE PROGRAM

May 10th, 2014 at 7 pm

Tel. (416) 603-9191 ext. 222 Fax: (416) 603-9190 email:info@richlawfirm.ca

We ship to Africa, Middle East, Europe, Asia, South America

SHIPPING:

Chukwudi Eze, ICCRC, CAPIC, FCMI President and CEO

AREA OF PRACTICE

• IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE • CIVIL LITIGATION • FAMILY LAW • CRIMINAL LITIGATION

• TWO CAMPUSES; DOMINICA AND ST.VINCENT & THE GRENADINES • LICENSED GRADUATES IN THE USA, CANADA, EUROPE & INDIA

LOCATION: Eastown Banquet Hall 2648 Eglinton Ave., E, Scarborough, ON M2J 2T7

July 26th, 2014 at 7 pm

LOCATION: Hampton Inn Toronto Airport 5515 Eglinton Ave., W, Toronto, ON M9C 5K5

• NO MCAT REQUIRED •AFFORDABLE TUITION FEES

CALL TO REGISTER: 1-866-602-9555 or 416-743-9222

mesekie@sutton.com

SUTTON WEST REALTY INC., BROKERAGE Tel: 416-240-1000 Fax 416-240-1603 24hrs direct #

416-779-9892

www.mattesekie.com NEW ADDRESS

5415 Dundas St. W. Suite #300 Toronto ON M9B 1B5

Not intended to solicit properties already in the market or buyers under contract

DISTRIBUTED IN: AJAX- PICKERING - MONTREAL- OTTAWA, EDMONTON- WINDSOR-SASKATWEAN - CALGARY -NEW YORK. IF YOU WANT OUR PAPERS, CALL: 416-318-3506

2

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

THE LAW OFFICE OF

PIUS L. OKORONKWO

ISLINGTON NORTH CHIROPRACTIC Dr. M Agyemang, B.Sc. (Hon.), D.C. Chiropractic & Rehabilitation

Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public

NOW INTRODUCES:

Dr. Pius L. Okoronkwo

STATE OF THE ART TREATMENT FOR: 1. Protruding and Herniating Discs 2. Degenerative Disc Disease (DDD) 3. Spinal Root Impingment 4. Degenerative Joint Disease (DJD) 5. Compression Fractures

LL.B., BL, LL.M. (Dalhousie, Canada), Ph.D. (Osgoode, Canada)

AREAS OF PRACTICE • Criminal Law • Family Law • Civil Litigation • Corporate and Commercial Law • Immigration and Refugee Law • International Economic Law and Investment • Estate and Trust Law Your Legal Problems Solved with Competence and Professionalism

Tel: 647-831-7487 • Fax: 416-650-0168 1183 Finch Ave. W, Suite 603, Toronto, ON M3J 2G2

SPINAL DECOMPRESSION THERAPY

As well we offer services for: Motor Vehicle Accidents • Extended Health Care Soft Tissue Massage • Custom made orthotics

Tel: 905-264-8010 Fax: 905-264-9010 CLINIC HOURS Mondays & Thursdays - 9:30-5:30 pm Tuesdays & Wednesdays - 9:30-8:00pm Fridays: 9:30-1:00pm Saturdays by appointment only Location: 7007 Islington Ave., Unit 14, Woodbridge, Ont. L4L 4T5 (NORTH-EAST corner of Islington & Steeles.

A VOLVO GROUP COMPANY

Call Jake Hodoh Cel: 416-910-9230

1.800.794.8627 ext. 227

jhodoh@arrowtruck.com www.arrowtruck.com

Location: 1285 Shawson Drive Mississauga, Ontario L4W 1C4

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

*

3

*

THE REDEEMED CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF GOD GRACE ARENA PARISH, MISSISSAUGA

Sunday Services: 10:00am – 1pm Bible Study and Prayer Conference: Thursday at 7pm

Venue: Thomas L. Kennedy Secondary School Hall, 3100 Hurontario Street, (near Square-one) Mississiauga, ON L5B 4J7

Come and be greatly blessed.

Tel: 647-997-9054

Email: gracearena.rccg@gmail.com

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

4

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

5

6

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

ROYAL AFRICAN TRAVEL & CARGO SERVICES

*

*

(For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ 1 Cor.3:11) The Lord Is Waiting For You To Address All Your Foundational Problems Today As You Worship With Us. Donʼt Be Left Out.

AFFORDABLE FLIGHT TO AFRICA & EUROPE FOR YOUR LOWEST RATES TO

LAGOS, ACCRA & EUROPE

You Shall Be Established On A New Foundation

WHEN: EVERY SUNDAY Hour Of Worship: 10.00AM – 12.30PM

Call Kwame Agyeman

416-740-5617 416-567-8193

TUESDAY: TELE – CONFERENCE on 850-810-7880, CODE: 7880#

TIME: 7.00PM LOCATION: St. Gregory Catholic School, 126 Rathburn Road, Toronto ON. M9B 2K6 (Kipling / Rathburn Intersection)

2428 Islington Ave., Suite 205, Toronto, Ont. M9W 3X8 Only book where you see the TICO Logo TICO Reg. number: 50015070 - TDS#96-528773

TELE – CONFERENCE on 850-810-7880, CODE: 7880# FOR PRAYER AND COUNSELLING: 647-721-6870 • 647-701-6871 • 647-693-2611 Jesus Is Lord

ONKAR TRAVELS COMPLETE WORLDWIDE TRAVEL SERVICES ONK

AR

TRA VEL S

Call us for the BEST Fares to:

Guaranteed Lowest Fare TRAVEL VACCINE CLINIC AVAILABLE

Tel: 416-249-2600 Cell: 416-771-8285 Toll Free: 1-877-249-2243 etobicoke@onkartravels.com www.onkartravel.ca

Location:

415 The Westway, Etobicoke, ON (Martin Grove/Westway, S of Dixon)

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Michael Ansu (President)

tico # 50011859

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

7

Take advantage of special prices. We have special prices from Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina and many more cities in Canada.

Please call our friendly staff.

They will be extremely happy to help you.

50014020

• Toronto – Lagos – Toronto • Toronto – Accra – Toronto • Special air fares, Europe tours, Cruises, Vacation packages, travel insurance and many more travel needs….

BOOK WITH US & RECEIVE A

$5.00 WALMART GIFT CARD

QUICK TRAVELS INC.

www.quicktravels.com • Email: info@quicktravels.com • gina@quicktravels.com

WE SPECIALIZE IN DUBAI PACKAGES

416-741-2025 ETOBICOKE OFFICE 416-291-2025 SCARBOROUGH OFFICE Please Contact : Gina Ofori

Offices:

Scarborough Location

202 – 80 Corporate drive.

Scarborough, On. M1H 3G5 Tel.: 416-291-2025 Fax: 416-291-3958

Etobicoke Location

Unit 106. 1625 Albion Road, Etobicoke, Ontario

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Quick International Travels Lavoie Lane, NH. U.S.A.

8

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

HEALTH & WELLNESS

HEALT H I S W E A LT H , TA K E C A R E OF YO URS

Disclaimer: In no way are any of the suggestion herein meant to take the place of advice given by a licensed health care professional. Please always consult your doctor before commemcing any medical treatment.

Breast sucking good for you?

Is Fasting Healthy?

By Darlene Zagata

By Yetunde Arebi

The female breasts, also known as “the twins” or “the girls”, have remained the most conspicuous and attractive feature of the female sexual organ. Perhaps, its strategic positioning and function adds to its importance in the life of a woman.

Besides the age long biological function of the breasts as a source of food and nourishment for babies, the breast is also a major source of sexual attraction for the male specie, just as it is also a key sexual organ for the woman, highly sensitive to stimulation.

The fact that they come in various shapes and sizes, further add to their uniqueness and endearing place in our hearts as humans.

As a sexual organ, the breasts have been known to give immense pleasure to both men and women during sexual encounters. In fact, some women have reportedly disclosed that they are capable of achieving orgasm even when thoroughly stimulated through sucking and caressing of the breasts alone. Though, because of this highly sensitive nature, some women find it very uncomfortable or even painful to submit their twin girls to constant sexual manipulation of any kind.

Interestingly, men are constantly drawn to the breasts. A lot of this attraction has been attributed to psychological composition, perception and beliefs.

For, pray, why would a full grown man be obsessed with sucking some mounds of milkless breasts? I don’t often get logical answers to this question when I ask.

The function of the breasts in sexual behaviour has been attributed to human Face -to -Face copulation that is unusual among other mammals. Since the breast already serves the function

of mother-infant bonding, then it is also excellent for male -female bonding, says an argument. After all, it is just within reach.

For those familiar with some of the social media platforms, you would have come across a particular message that has been making the rounds for a couple of years now. Purportedly attributed to the BBC as source, this message usually springs out during the cancer awareness months and in support of cancer prevention campaign. As expected, it elicits a wide range of controversies from both men and women, from humour to disdain and sexual innuendoes, while some others believe the content hook, line and sinker. The purported message is claimed to have been issued by the Ministry of Health in the fight against breast cancer. One of the versions I have received read thus: Very soon, women will be paying men to have their breasts sucked! According to a report on BBC website, Doctors recommend that women reduce the risk of getting breast cancer by having their breasts sucked thoroughly and vigorously.

It is said that regular sucking of the breast lowers the risk level that tends to build up lumps leading to breast cancer. The breast must be sucked as often as possible.

Help women fight breast cancer today. Men, please do your part and suck a breast now! And women,

please endeavour to make it available regularly…… This message is from the Ministry of Health in the fight against breast cancer.

I have tried several times without success to get a confirmation for this story on the mentioned websites including cancer.org and some others in related fields. But perhaps, someone out there knows the original and authentic source of this message?

Please share it with us!

As interesting as this message may be, as well as the different responses it receives anytime it is being passed around, depending on which side of the divide you find yourself, I am more worried about the health implications attached. Cancer is not something to make jokes out of as it claims millions of lives across the world every year.

Again, some frightened lady who hitherto was not in favour of breast sucking may easily submit herself to torture with the belief that she is suffering for a good reason. Please, let us not confuse issues. Breast feeding is not the same as breast sucking. Breast feeding is the process of feeding new born and infants with breast milk. It is this that has been medically proven to be of immense benefit to both mother and child and can prevent breast cancer.

There are no scientifically proven studies indicating that breast sucking is of any medical benefit to contiued on p(22)

People may fast for various reasons including spiritual discipline, inner cleansing or as a weight loss method but is fasting healthy? The truth is that fasting does have its benefits but it can be dangerous.

First and foremost, fasting should never be used as a way to lose weight. The weight that people lose through fasting is mostly water weight rather than excess fatty tissue. The weight loss is not long-term and is usually gained back rather quickly. One of the dangers of losing weight in this manner is the possibility of dehydration and the loss of essential electrolytes. Anyone who is fasting should drink large quantities of water and fruit juice to avoid dehydration.

A healthy fast done for twenty-four hours for the purpose of inner cleansing

to remove toxins from the body can be beneficial. Still there are some people who should not fast. Fasting is not recommended for the following reasons.

If you are pregnant If you are elderly If you are a diabetic If you have heart disease If you are on medication If you suffer from kidney problems Fasting has a long history and has been practiced for centuries but that doesn’t mean that it is safe for you.

If you are thinking of fasting you should get a physical first to make sure you are in good health and you should never begin a fast without your physician’s approval. Fasting for too long or if you have a health condition could prove harmful which is why you should always consult with your doctor first.

Don’t use fasting as a weight loss method. Fast-

ing can be dangerous and weight loss should be a gradual process. If you need to lose weight consult with your physician. He or she can help you to develop a healthy weight loss plan.

A combination of exercise and healthy diet is the best way to lose weight so that it will stay off. Weight loss requires a change in lifestyle.

Developing a healthier lifestyle takes time. There is no instant cure to drop extra pounds and any method practiced to lose weight quickly is not healthy.

Lose weight by cutting back on calories and do it the healthy way. Fasting should be done to remove toxins and cleanse your body. If you choose to fast do it to benefit your health and body not to harm it.

Consult with your physician before you fast and practice fasting safely.

Nigerian Canadian News

Cord Blood Facts and Misconceptions Cord blood is the blood that remains in a newborn’s umbilical cord after birth.

One of the amazing things about cord blood stem cells is its ability to find injured cells and tissue in the body and initiate a healing process.

If you’re about to be blessed with a newborn (or know someone soon due) – you should know that the miracle of life can now bring a miracle of healing.

Thanks to advances in stem cell therapy, your baby’s banked cord blood can be used to help save lives. \ By making the decision to allow your baby’s cord blood to be collected and banked, you can help to further important medical research. Or to help cure a previously untreatable disease, perhaps sometime in the future. And that person could even be your child him/herself, or someone in

your family.

Modern medical science treasures these potentially life-saving umbilical cord blood stem cells: They are incomparably pristine, ‘smart,’ unique, and powerful. In fact, currently – cord blood stem cells are being used to successfully treat previously untreatable diseases, or injuries. They are important to further research in a miraculous new area of medicine called regenerative medicine: An exciting new branch where scientists are studying the use of cord blood cells in experimental treatments for conditions once thought to be beyond cure.

The decision to bank your baby’s cord blood should be made well before your due date. Consider the facts and misconceptions: A common fear and misconception is that removing cord blood for col-

lection will take something away from your baby. The fact is: Nothing at all; no blood is actually removed from the newborn. After the umbilical cord is clamped and cut, it’s usually discarded and thrown away. Instead, if you request to have your baby’s cord blood collected, the only difference from the routine procedure is that once the cord is cut – your baby’s cord blood will be saved, rather than discarded.

If you’re awaiting the miracle of birth, you should seriously consider saving, or ‘banking’ your baby’s cord blood. It could be yet another precious gift of life.

It’s a one-time opportunity that can be a lifesaving, or life-giving miracle of healing for someone you’d like to help.

SmarterLifestyles.com

Mood Foods

By Dr. Oz Feeling Angry When you’re angry, annoyed, or irritated, blame your serotonin. A small study involving brain scans of subjects with

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

decreased serotonin suggests that low levels of the neurotransmitter inhibit the brain’s ability to regulate anger, while normal levels can lead to calmer, more controlled responses. To keep cool, try a plantain. These topical

treats have one of the highest serotonin concentrations around (30 micrograms per gram).

Their cousin, the banana, also packs a powerful serotonin punch -Oprah Magazine

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

How Abuja Bus Station Bombing was planned Four weeks after the Nyanya bomb blast that claimed 74 lives and injured many others, the identities of the masterminds of the blast were made public by the Department of State Services, DSS, yesterday.

Parading the suspects at its headquarters in Abuja, DSS Deputy Director of Public Relations, Marilyn Ogar, announced that the bombing was masterminded by one Rufai Abubakar Tsiga, described as a Boko Haram leader and assisted by one Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche, an army deserter and son of a retired Nigerian Army officer.

Ogar, who was flanked by the Defence, military and police spokesmen during the briefing, said the two men, who were now at large, hatched and carried out the bombing of the busy transport terminal on April 14.

The DSS said it was Tisga and one Muhammadu Sani Ishaq, who moved the explosive-laden vehicle to Nyanya bus station on the night of April 13, while Tsiga personally drove the vehicle to the actual position in which he detonated the bomb the following morning.

Paradoxically, while Sani Ishaq, who took part in the bombing had been arrested, the duo of Tsiga and Ogwuche, described as the brain behind the bombing, have gone into hiding, forcing the security agency to declare him wanted.

Army deserter Interestingly, Ogwuche, who hails from Orokam, Ogbadibo council of Benue State is a student of Arabic Language at the International University of Africa, Sudan, and the son of a retired army colonel, Agene.

The suspect, who was enlisted into the Nigerian Army as Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche with service number SVC 95/104, deserted the Nigerian Army in 2006.

Before he absconded from the army, Ogwuche served in the Intelligence Unit at Child Avenue, Arakan Barracks, Lagos, between 2001 and 2006, shortly after being posted to the Nigerian Defence Academy.

He was arrested by security operatives on suspected terrorist activity at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on November 12, 2011, shortly after arriving from the United Kingdom.

However, following intensive pressure from human rights groups, who alleged that his fundamental rights were being violated, Ogwuche was released to his father, Col Agene Ogwuche (rtd.).

The DSS had placed a bounty of N25 million on their heads. In all, five suspects, who had earlier been taken into DSS custody following the bomb blast, were paraded before journalists in Abuja yesterday.

The suspects are Ahmed Rufai Abubakar, alias Abu Ibrahim/Maiturare, Muhammadu Sani Ishaq, Yau Saidu alias Kotar Rama, Anas Isah and Adamu Yusuf.

Eight days after the blast, a joint security team arrested Abubakar at Gwantu, Sanga Local Government Area of Katsina State.

Confession Abubakar, 43, from Yarimawa in Kazaure council of Jigawa State, confessed to security agents that shortly after the blast in Nyanya, Tsiga confirmed to him that he and other Boko Haram members had bombed Nyanya in retaliation for the killing of sect member eight days earlier.

It was, however, discovered that the alleged killing of a Boko Haram member had never taken place but was merely bandied about to elicit the sympathy of the sect members.

Abubakar confirmed that Tsiga sent him recharge card and that the phone of one Muhammadu Sani Ishaq was used in sending him the credit.

According to Abubakar (a.k.a Maiturare), Tsiga also told him that Boko Haram national leader had directed that all members of the sect should relocate with their families to ‘Gaaba’(Boko Haram forest camp) in preparation for mass attacks against the country.

Ishaq, Nyanya blast plan He was arrested on April 24 at Utako Village behind Julius Berger Yard, Utako, following the disclosure made by Abubakar. He is a 30 year old indigene of Balari village, Ajingi council of Kano State.

Ishaq was a sales boy in Tsiga’s patent medicine store at Utako called Kishi Clinic, a structure which also served as a base for Boko Haram’s covert activities in Abuja.

He revealed that two days before the Nyanya blast, Tsiga (alias Dr. Rufai Tsiga), his boss, informed him around 4p.m. after prayers that there was a plan to bomb a facility in Abuja, but stated that he was not informed of the exact place.

He further revealed that Tsiga later informed him that the bombs to be used for the blast were being coupled at the residence of one Adamu Yusuf.

According to Ishaq, a day before the Nyanya bombing, he and Tsiga drove the car laden with explosives and parked it behind four buses inside the Nyanya park overnight, after which they left the area, which Tsiga detonated the following day.

According to him, two cars were wired for the attack. He claimed one was used for the April 14 incident, which was a retaliatory attack as a member of the sect was lynched a week earlier at the Nyanya park because he was caught with firearms.

However, the story appear untrue, but fabricated

by Tsiga to elicit the interest of Ishaq and other sect members used for the attack.

Saidu alias Kotar Rama Saidu, 28, was arrested on April 29 at his village, Dandambo, Tsanyawa council of Kano State.

Before his arrest, Saidu was an apprentice under Tsiga at his medicine store in Utako village market.

Although he denied membership of the sect, he claimed that his uncle, Tsiga and Ishaq attempted to enlist him several times.

He identified the perpetrators of the Nyanya bomb blast as Tsiga, Ishaq and Ogwuche.

He also disclosed that on April 13 at 11a.m., a day before the Nyanya bombing, Tsiga and Ishaq drove out from Utako village market in a “black coloured Honda Accord” car and returned about four hours later.

Later the same day, they went out again in the same car and did not return until the following day, April 14 at 11a.m., after the Nyanya bombing incident had occurred.

He alleged that when Tsiga learnt of Ishaq’s arrest, he fled Utako to an unknown location and left the Kishi Clinic business in his care.

Tsiga equally sent a message to his wife, Hauwa’u on his mobile (number

9

Mastermind Of Nyanya Bomb Blast Arrested In Sudan The co-mastermind of the April 14, 2014 bomb that went off in Nyanya, a suburb of Abuja, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche has been arrested in Sudan, National Daily reports.

Ogwuche was reportedly arrested through the help of the Military Attaché to the Nigerian High Commission in Sudan with the help of international security operatives.

The suspect is a student of Arabic Language at the International University of Africa, Sudan is a British born Nigerian.

National Daily Newspaper reports: Ogwuche was formerly of the Nigerian Army with service number SVC 95/104 but was said to have deserted the Army in 2006.

It could be recalled that the Department of State Services (DSS), had on Monday 12, May 2014 during a joint news conference in Abuja declared him and one Rufai Tsiga wanted for the bombing of Nyanya Motor Park on 14 April which killed over 75 people. The DSS through its Director of Public Relations of DSS, Marilyn Ogar, announced the declaration.

According to the Department of State Security, Ogwuche served in the Intelligence Unit of the Nigerian Army at Child Avenue, Arakan Barracks, Lagos, between 2001 and 2006. He was allegedly involved in terrorist activities which led to his arrest at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Nov. 12, 2011 at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International 07067434122) directing her to pack her belongings and flee the area.

Yusuf alias Mallam Adamu Adamu Yusuf, 43, was arrested in Bauchi on May 5.

He has confessed that he is a member of the sect. Adamu was a cleric at Finance Quarters Mosque, Wuye, Abuja.

Ishaq disclosed that Tsiga told him that the bombs used for the Nyanya incident were coupled in a bush near Yusuf ’s residence.

Yusuf, however, claims that even though he knows Tsiga, the mastermind of the Nyanya bombing, he did not take part in the

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

These buses were destroyed by a bomb on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, on Monday, April 14, 2014. (Photo Credit: AFP, Getty Images)

Airport, Abuja, on arrival from the UK. But was however, released on bail to his father, retired Col. Agene Ogwuche on Oct. 15, 2012 following intense pressure from human rights activists, who alleged human rights violation.

Ogar, who announced N25 million rewards for anyone who could give information that could lead to the arrest of the duo, also paraded five suspects in connection with the bombing. Ogar named the suspects as Ahmad Abubakar, 43, Muhammed Ishaq, 30, Yau Saidu, 28, Anas Isah, 22 and Adamu Yusuf, a cleric, 43.

“Rufai Abubakar Tsiga, a Boko Haram leader, is the mastermind of the bombing of April 14, 2014 at ElRufai Motor Park, Abuja.

Tsiga was actively aided by a co-mastermind, Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche.

“The sum of N25 million is hereby announced as reward for anybody with useful information on their whereabouts,” she said.

The director said that on the night of 13 April, Tsiga and one Muhammed Ishaq, one of the arrested bombing. He mentioned the members of the sect known to him to be Tsiga, Abubakar, Ogwuche and Isah.

He claimed to be an apprentice under Tsiga along with Isah. He claimed that on the day of the Nyanya bomb blast, Tsiga called and told him that he heard of the bomb blast and that it was a job well done.

Isah Anas Isah, 22, was arrested on May 3 at Unguwar Yan Tagwaye village, Faskari council, Katsina State. He is an indigene of Tsiga, Bakori council, Katsina State.

Isah came to Abuja in

suspects, moved a vehicle laden with explosives to the Nyanya Park.

“In the morning of 14 April, Tsiga, under the di-

Aminu Sadiq Ogwuche

rection of Ogwuche, moved the explosives laden vehicle to the position from where he detonated the explosives,” she said.

The DSS spokesperson said that the arrested suspects claimed that they bombed the park to retaliate the killing of a Boko Haram member at the park a week before the incident.

She denounced the claim as a fabrication by the mastermind of the bombing to elicit other members used for the bombing.

Ogar urged the public to be wary as terrorist elements were disguising and taking up menial jobs and parading themselves as businessmen daily in Abuja and its environs.

2011 and hawked yoghurt for about one month before going back to Tsiga. He returned to Abuja again in 2012 and worked as a sales boy in a pharmacy located at Ruga near Wuye Market.

In 2013, Tsiga invited Isah to join his “clinic” at Utako village, where he worked for about five months.

Although Isah denied being involved in the April 14 incident, he identified Ishaq and Tsiga as members of the sect, especially as the latter had confided in him his membership of the Boko Haram sect.

Source:nigerianewsday. com

10

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

The return to jungle justice

Uncommon birth defect appears in three babies in homes on one road Three mothers who have babies with the same birth defect and live in homes on the same Moncton, N.B., road want more research into gastroschisis, which causes the intestines or colon to grow outside the body through a hole beside the belly button.

The three women live within blocks of each other and gave birth in the last 16 months.

“To me, it came off as not a coincidence. I thought it was really weird. With the numbers that are given, I just didn’t understand how all three could be so close,” said Natalya Beatty, one of the mothers..

Beatty gave birth to daughter Rylee last month, knowing ahead of time her the baby would have gastroschisis. After Rylee was born, she was airlifted to the IWK Health Centre in Halifax.

“They put her bowels into a silo — it’s like a big bandage thing — and then they had the surgery. They put all her bowels back in through her belly button,” said Beatty.

While at the IWK, Beatty met other moms and discovered the connection.

All three women live on Salisbury Road in Moncton, within eight kilometres of one another. Before meeting at the IWK, the moms didn’t know each other personally.

Now, they’re wondering what might have caused their children’s birth defects.

Dr. Natalie Yanchar is a pediatric surgeon and researcher who tracks cases of gastroschisis across Canada.

“It’s surprising, especially when you hear it in that context, but until we look at it critically, we can’t really draw any assumptions

CBC/CBC - Natalya Beatty’s daughter, Rylee, was born with gastroschisis, a birth defect that causes organs to spill outside the baby’s abdomen through a hole by the belly button

from it,” said Yanchar.

The birth defect is uncommon, but not rare, she said. It occurs in about one in every 10,000 babies, worldwide.

Of those, about six per cent don’t survive.

Yanchar said doctors have yet to identify hot spots in Canada where the birth defect may be more prevalent She said there isn’t any evidence that the birth defect is more common in Moncton or even New Brunswick, for that matter.

“We are always hesitant to sort of assume this might be a hot spot until we look at it really critically,” she said.

While Beatty’s daughter was able to go home after one surgery and about a month in the hospital, another woman who lives on the street is still waiting for her child to come home.

Andrea Cunningham’s son, Dylan Rosie, was born 16 months ago and is still in hospital.

Dylan has had 13 surgeries and nearly 20 blood transfusions, and has never eaten on his own. He is fed through a tube in his stomach and wears a small backpack that holds the food being pumped into his stomach.

“He’s laughing, and walking and playing, but you know on the inside he’s in a lot of pain,” said Cun-

ningham. “He’s just kind of adapted to it. It’s his normal now.”

Normal for Cunningham is travelling back and forth between the IWK and Moncton, where her young daughter is living with her grandparents.

“It makes it a struggle — to divide yourself in half,” said Cunningham.

She sleeps on a cot in the bathroom attached to Dylan’s hospital room so he can have more room to play.

Cunningham was six weeks from graduating college when Dylan was born.

Her education and job have been on hold ever since.

Dylan’s next surgery, which will take out some of his bowel, is scheduled on Cunningham’s birthday. If that surgery doesn’t work, he will have to have a bowel transplant.

The third mom did not want CBC to reveal her name. She gave birth within the last few weeks and confirmed she lives on the road, just blocks away from the other two women.

“I mean, I’ve thought about thousands of things — if it’s an environmental thing, if there are other causes,” said Beatty.

All three moms said regardless of whether it is a coincidence, they want more research done on what causes the defect.

CBC.ca

Recycle Your $$$$ Patronize your Community LOOKING FOR REAL ESTATE AGENTS? See our front page adverts

The discovery, sometime ago, of a den of kidnappers and ritual killers at the Soka forest area of Ibadan, the Oyo State, capital, has precipitated a resurgence of attacks on suspected kidnappers in the South-West states of the country. The video of the Soka forest victims, which is on sale in the geo-political zone, became a trigger for the recent wave of lynching of persons suspected to be involved in any attempt to kidnap anybody, even when such persons had not been found guilty of such act by the courts.

From Oyo, Osun, Lagos, Ekiti, Ondo and Ogun states, instances of lynching of suspected kidnappers have been reported, as citizens take the laws into their own hands, ostensibly to defend society from the assault of “kidnappers”.

Persons who should be presumed to be innocent as they had not been convicted or sentenced to death by courts of competent jurisdiction were killed at will in orgies of mob violence that should not be heard of in any civilised society.

The Lagos Police Command has issued a warning against jungle justice to stem the trend, while the Ogun State authorities were reported to have arrested scores of persons for suspected killing of kidnap suspects in the state.

The emerging scenario has brought back memories of the ALUU 4, the four University of Port Harcourt students who were lynched for allegedly stealing phones and laptops on October 5, 2012. They were brutally beaten and burnt by a baying mob, as a growing crowd watched and cheered the mobsters on.

We strongly condemn the growing resort to jungle justice in the country. At a time Nigeria is attracting global attention for mass murders being perpetrated

by Boko Haram insurgents in the northern part of the country, we cannot afford to add this new evil to our al-

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

ready badly bruised image. This bestial rule of the jungle demeans and diminishes us and our country in every way. It shows all Nigerians in bad light, and portrays us as primitive men and women from the dark ages.

The nation’s constitution, in Chapter Four, Section 33 (1) guarantees every Nigerian the fundamental right to his life. It reads in part: “Every person has the right to life, and no one shall be deprived intentionally of his life, save in execution of the sentence of a court in respect of a criminal offence of which he has been found guilty in Nigeria”. Furthermore, Section 34 prescribes that “No person shall be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment…”

In addition, the religions practised in the country do not allow one man to take the life of another. There is, therefore, no rhyme or reason to this barbaric descent into anarchy.

In spite of our deficiencies and inadequacies, Nigeria is still a nation guided and bound by laws. Hauling defenceless citizens into the dark chambers of jungle justice is, therefore, criminal. Resorting to the kind of self-help that leads to maiming or killing of suspects is a crime, an indictable homicide, for which if convicted, those involved are liable to the maximum punishment, which is death penalty.

Apart from the criminal angle, it is also mean and immoral to pounce on a man and take his life for an offence that he has not been proved to be guilty of. Oftentimes, the persons who constitute themselves into the accuser, judge, jury and executioner of suspects do not even know the facts of the “case” they are “adjudicating”. They only know that an allegation has been made against the kidnap suspect. Too many innocent people have been killed in the heat of the moment by lynch mobs who hardly know what

the suspected kidnappers were accused of.

We urge the Nigeria Police to come out in full force to stop this indiscipline and bring those culpable to justice. It is not enough to rescue victims of mob action from their angry traducers. The police must go a step further to arrest and prosecute those who take the laws into their own hands. It is the only way to stop this unfortunate trend that has a tendency to spread like wildfire.

As abhorrent as mob action is to a decent society, the practice is almost always fueled by denied, delayed or misapplied justice. The frequent failure of our justice system to bring criminals to justice has over the years led to a decline in the trust of ordinary Nigerians in the judicial system. A situation where the police arrest known criminals, keep them overnight and release them to unleash further terror on those who reported them can only lead to frustration and pent up anger.

The only disincentive that will put an end to jungle justice, lynching and mob action is an improvement in the justice delivery system in the country. As long as the people believe that they will not get justice from the courts, they will continue to resort to self-help to bring suspected criminals to justice. When taxpayers believe that the police that they help fund are compromised and have officers who aid and abet crime and criminals, we cannot but continue to witness jungle justice in the country.

We urge all Nigerians to stop jungle justice by refusing to participate in the unconscionable act.

The police and the judiciary should play their parts by speedily bringing crime suspects to justice.

For the nation to rid itself of this deplorable behaviour, we must all resolve to return to the path of decency, and respect our laws.

Sun News

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

How to become an overnight billionaire in Nigeria of inter-city “mammywagons.” He also imported “panla” (dried fish) on a WITH only some 50 years large scale. Sir Mobolaji of independent national ex- Bank-Anthony had a tanker istence, Nigeria is a country fleet and a pioneering charreeking with “new money.” ter airline. Emmanuel AkThe overwhelming propor- wiwu, hauled oil-rigs and tion of the millionaires and supplies for British Petrobillionaires in the country leum. Chief Timothy Adeoare “nouveau-riche;” they la Odutola produced bicycle became rich literally “over- tires for the growing army of night.” We are talking of Nigerian bike-riders. people whose wealth does But thanks to oil, much of not go beyond a generation. Nigerian wealth is no longer Indeed, the fantastic the product of such venwealth of Nigerian billion- tures. Yes, we have billionaires like Femi Otedola aires like Ibrahim Dasuki scarcely goes beyond ten/ and Mike Adenuga who can fifteen years. Not only does still be rightfully described Nigeria’s wealthy few have as highly enterprising. But a short history, they often even more significantly, we have a short future as well. have tycoons who came The money comes “miracu- into wealth through “wurulously” and goes just as “mi- wuru” and “mago-mago.” raculously.”

These men are hardly NigeIn my youth, S.B. Bakare ria’s Bill Gates. was the celebrated Nigerian On the contrary, they tycoon. Highlife stars and don’t have a clue what to do juju musicians eulogised with their dubious wealth, him in their records. But and they are ignorant about ask a young Nigerian today wealth-creation. As such, who S.B. Bakare is, and I can they add little of value to bet my bottom dollar he has the Nigerian project. Their never heard of him. praises may be sung today S.B. has fallen off the radar by their horde of parasitiand so has his wealth. It is cal hangers-on, but they not identifiable by any ma- will not be remembered for jor industry or enterprise. good when they are gone.

His descendants may still be As mysteriously as their in litigation over the dregs of wealth materialised, so will his estate, but undoubtedly it vanish. it is nothing to write home These men became rich about again. Certainly, no- through some of the followbody is singing about S.B. ing tried and tested methBakare today. There are ods, which can be relied now new pretenders to his upon to lead to one’s incluthrone. sion in the Nigerian Book of Irrelevant Rich Men. If you New dawn want to get rich quick, here Time was when wealthy is the Nigerian blueprint.

Nigerians built something, But please, don’t tell anyone developed something, or I “wiki-leaked” this highlymade something. At that classified national secret to time, the rich were truly you. captains of industry. Alhaji Sanusi Dantata made Rob a bank his fortune in the era of the This strategy has gone groundnut pyramids in the through some transition.

North; buying and shipping Bank-robbers used to be them for export. men of the underworld Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu who held banks hostage at had Nigeria’s largest fleet gunpoint and then made

By Femi Aribisala

off with the cash. However, it was soon recognised that this approach has distinct disadvantages. You might get arrested and jailed.

Even worse, you might get shot. It also became apparent that banks carry limited amounts of cash.

Therefore, a successful bank robbery of this violent kind might only land you perhaps 50 million naira tops, which is not even enough to buy or build a house in Banana Island.

There is a better way to rob a bank with far limited risk.

Simply establish a bank.

When you establish a bank, you can rob the bank every day without a gun.

When people deposit money in your bank, they don’t know that they are handing over their life-savings to a thief. You then rob the bank you establish in a number of imaginative ways.

For example, you can lend money to your bank and then charge it a very high interest-rate. Better still, you can borrow billions from your bank and simply forget to pay it back. Or, you can use the money deposited in your bank to buy houses and then rent them out as branches to your bank at exorbitant prices.

This approach is guaranteed to make you a few billion naira until the EFCC policemen come calling.

When they do, you can quickly fall sick, spend a few months in Deluxe Hospital Hotel and then relocate to your village to enjoy your wealth, never to be heard of again.

the Connection | mag

YOU & THE LAW

Should You Sue? What To Think About First Has someone committed a wrong against you? Are you thinking of suing? Here are some issues you should first consider.

1. Does your agreement allow you to sue?

If your dispute concerns a contract, your options for seeking payment for fees may be limited by the contract itself. Some ] agreements state that any dispute must be dealt with through mediation or arbitrator (who is paid to make a decision) or both before you may go to Court. This means that, rather than filing a lawsuit, you must take the dispute to an independent third party mediator or arbitrator and ask for their assistance in reaching a resolution. The difference between mediation and arbitration is that a mediator can only encourage the parties to negotiate and suggest possible compromises. An arbitrator however, has the power to impose his or her decision on the parties, whether they like it or not. Even if the agreement does provide for mediation or arbitration, you should still consult with a lawyer who can assist you in presenting your case to the mediator/arbitrator and who can advise you as to your options if the outcome of mediation/arbitration is not satisfactory to you.

Join the PDP This one is a sure banker.

As a member of the great2. Will you be able est party in the history of to collect?

Africa, you will be given Suing someone is all a credit-card to spend Nivery good and well, but if geria’s oil wealth. If you you can’t enforce the judgare not getting enough ment you obtain, you’ll be no better off than before. continued on p(51) It’s important to understand that even if a judge rules in your favour and orders your opponent to pay compensation to you, EDITION it’s your responsibility to actually collect the money FREE from your opponent. The Court do not provide assistance with helping you collect your money. You can do so in a variety of ways including by seizing

NIGERIAN TH CANADIAN 4 BUSINESS DIRECTORY

TOGETHER WE ACHIEVE MORE CALL

416-318-3506

publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

Coming Soon!

Advertise with Us

11

property your opponent owns and by causing his or her employer to pay a portion of his or wages directly to you. However, before you start the lawsuit, you should investigate to see whether your opponent owns any property. If not, the lawsuit may not be worthwhile. You should consult with a lawyer for guidance on how to determine what property your opponent owns.

3. Have you waited too long to sue?

Ontario law generally requires that you start a lawsuit within two years of having discovered that you were owed money. There are further rules for specific kinds of disputes and there are exceptions to all these rules. If the timing of the lawsuit is a potential issue, you should consult with a lawyer for assistance in understanding these rules. Waiting too long to start your lawsuit does not mean that you cannot sue. What it means that if you sue, your opponent may request that the court throw out your lawsuit because you sued too late.

4. Do you have enough evidence?

If you are the one suing, it is your responsibility to prove that your opponent has done something wrong and that you have suffered damages as a result. The judge will not simply take your word for it. You will need evidence. Evidence can be documents such as contracts, letters and emails. Evidence can also be presented through the testimony of witnesses. Ideally you should have evidence to back up every aspect of your story that your opponent is likely to dispute.

Before you start the lawsuit, you should gather together all of your evidence and see whether it will be sufficient.

A lawyer can give you valuable advice with respect to the evidence you require and how you might obtain this evidence.

5. Have you tried to negotiate?

Lawsuits are stressful, time-consuming and expensive. Before you start, you should make one last effort to resolve the situation by negotiating a settlement with your opponent. It may be a good idea to hire a lawyer to send a letter to your opponent.

This will demonstrate that you are serious about taking legal action if the dispute cannot be resolved in a satisfactory manner.

As you can see, there is a lot to think about before starting a lawsuit. If you’ve considered the above and you’re still not sure how to proceed, please feel free to give us a call and we’d be more than happy to discuss your options with you.

Source: http://byblacks.com Tanya was born in Toronto to Jamaican parents. She is a lawyer and owner of the Bay Street firm, Walker Law Professional Corporation.

This law firm employs three other people. represents clients and business with their financial disputes.

Tanya graduated from McMaster University, with an Honours Commerce (Business) degree, and then graduated from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School in 2005.

Tanya has received a few awards along the way. This includes the Women’s Enterprise Woman of the Year Award in 2010, and the Young Entrepreneur Harry Jerome Award from the Black Business and Professional Association in 2013.

Tanya is a member of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, BBPA and Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association. Tanya also co-chairs for Community Service, Young Lawyers Division of the National Bar Association (the black lawyers association in the United States).

Website: tcwalkerlawyers.com/

Ontario General Election Exercise Your Right - VOTE ON

June 12, 2014

For all information about Ontario’s 41st Provincial General Election go to Election Website: WeMakeVotingEasy.ca

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

12

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Countries with the most billionaires

Despite global economic uncertainties, the euro zone debt crisis, and fears of a hard landing in China, the mega-rich — the one percent of the one percent — have had a great run.

10. Canada Billionaire count: 40 Total wealth: $105 billion With 40 billionaires, Canada is home to the eighth largest population of ultra-rich individuals, or those with $30 million or more in total assets. Billionaires account for only 0.8 percent of Canada’s ultrarich population, but own nearly 18 percent of the combined wealth of $595 billion in this category. The country’s ultra-wealthy population, however, did see its combined wealth decrease by 4 percent between August 2011 and July 31, 2012, while the number of people in the group also fell nearly 4 percent. Weakness in the global equity markets and fears of the possible spillover effects from a slowdown in the U.S., which is Canada’s largest trading partner, are some of the major reasons behind the wealthy’s decreasing fortunes, according to Wealth-X. For example, Canada’s richest person, billionaire media magnate David Thomson (pictured)

who along with his family owns Thomson Reuters, saw his and his family’s net worth fall by $5.5 billion in the year to March 2012 due to a nearly 30 percent drop in the company’s share price, according to Forbes.

Thompson, 55, is now the 35th richest man in the world, down from 17th in 2011.

The world’s billionaire club has added to its numbers and increased its wealth even as equity, currency, and commodity markets have suffered one of their most volatile periods. The number of billionaires worldwide grew 9.4 percent to 2,160, expanding their wealth by 14 percent to $6.19 trillion — a $760 billion jump over the previous year, according to research firm Wealth-X. 9. Brazil Billionaire count: 49 Total wealth: $300 billion Brazil is the only Latin American country to make the list of the top 10 countries with the most billionaires, even though

the region’s ultra-wealthy population increased by 3.5 percent this year. Brazil ranks ninth in the world for its ultra-rich population of 4,640. These are people who are worth $30 million and more. The combined wealth of Brazil’s billionaires account for more than a third of its ultra-rich group wealth of $865 billion, even though they represent only one percent of that population. The number of billionaires in Brazil, meanwhile, fell by just one this year, but the group’s combined wealth decreased by more than 6 percent. On average, Brazil’s 49 billionaires are worth $6.1 billion each.

However, the wealth of the country’s richest man, Eike Batista (pictured), is more than double that figure at $14.9 billion, according to Forbes. A sharp dip in the country’s gross domestic product growth from 7.5 percent in 2010 to 2.7 percent in 2011 is one of the key factors behind the drop in wealth, as Europe’s debt crisis eroded demand for its exports. Equity markets

MAS GLOBAL EXPRESS AND LOGISTICS (MAS INTERNATIONAL SERVICES INC.)

in Brazil also fell by 10 percent in the 12-month measuring period starting August 2011, while the local currency, the real, devalued by 31 percent, according to Wealth-X. 8. Switzerland Billionaire count: 57 Total wealth: $125 billion Known as the playground of the rich and famous, Switzerland is eighth in the global billionaire sweepstakes and ranks seventh as the home of those worth $30 million and more, or the ultrawealthy. Switzerland’s billionaires represent the top one percent of its 5,597

USED GENERATORS SALE!!!

ultra-wealthy population and control more than 19 percent of the total fortune of this group. On average, these billionaires are worth $2.2 billion each. Despite Europe as a whole seeing a decline in its ultra-wealthy population, Switzerland’s rich grew more than 7 percent. Their combined wealth increased more than 3 percent year-over-year.

The country’s favorable tax and privacy laws have attracted a number of ultrarich people, who keep their money there even though they don’t permanently live in the country. Such individuals made up more than 18 percent of Switzerland’s

ultra-wealthy population.

Other factors contributing to the increase in wealth in Switzerland was a 15 percent rise in its equity markets in the 12 months ending July 31 2012, outweighing limited economic growth of 1.9 percent in 2011, according to WealthX. Those gains, however, were capped by the fall in the Swiss franc, which declined more than 24 percent in that period.

7. Hong Kong Billionaire count: 64 Total wealth: $190 billion As one of Asia’s key financial centers, Hong Kong is also home to some of the richest people with a billionaire count of 64.

Billionaires in Hong Kong make up 2 percent of the city’s ultra-wealthy population, but account for more than 40 percent of the group’s combined wealth.

The ultra-wealthy are those with assets worth $30 million or more. Slowing economic growth across North Asia has had a direct continued on p(51)

SONA DISTRIBUTORS

www.220v.com

USED GENERATORS SALE!!!

CARGO AND PARCEL SPECIAL TO NIGERIA BY AIR • Small Parcel • Big Cargo • Personal Good • Cars: SUV & EQUIPMENT (OCEAN) • Commercial Cargo • Export & Import • WORLD WIDE SERVICE

Multi System TV - 110V/220V

Generator

We Will Arrange Free Delivery

CONTACT US:

NIGERIA MAS GLOBAL EXPRESS AND LOGISTICS 23, OSOLO WAY, 7/8 BUS STOP, INT'L AIRPORT ROAD, AJAO ESTATE, LAGOS-NIGERIA TEL 234 17617218 • 234 7032105250 • FAX 234 1 4522261 Email: mas.global@yahoo.com • info@masgloballogistics.com WWW.MASGLOBALLOGISTICS.COM CHINA MAS GLOBAL EXPRESS AND LOGISTICS Shop -1/F A2034 Yinfu Export Clothes Trade Plaza.

No.218, Guang Yuan Xi Road, Guangzhou. QQ:2561730722 www.masgloballogitics.com Email: info@masgloballogistics.com Mobile: 008613422122746 JOY AJUEBOR CANADA 15 Blue Whale Blvd Brampton ON L6R 2M2 Email: sumbomas@yahoo.com Tel: 647-818-2011 • 416-241-4984

DUBAI MAS GLOBAL CARGO AND LOGISTICS M10 ALMAJED CENTRE DEIRA-DUBAI UAE TEL 9710555763929 971552884541 Email: dubai@masgloballogistics.com

Fridge - 220V

NEW & USED GENERATORS FOR SALE

Stereo 220V

Our new address is 5707 Steeles Avenue West

@ Fenmar/Pine Valley – South East Corner

USA 11849 Bissonnet Street Houston Texas 77099 USA 1-855 MAS INTL (627-4685) • 281-879-5099 info@masgloballogistics.com • masinternationale@yahoo.com

FOR WORLDWIDE PARTNER/LOCATION VISIT:WWW.SKYEXCOURIERS.COM - UK, USA, CHINA, INDIA, DUBAI ETC.

Step down Transformer

Toronto, ON M9L 1S7 info@sonadistributors.com

Tel: 416-646-0495 Fax: 416-646-0498

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Stove - 220V range

Split Air-conditioner 220V

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Floating hotel draws workers to NW Canada boom town VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Hundreds of construction workers in booming northern British Columbia will take up residence this week in unique digs on board a cruise ferry revamped into a floating luxury hotel.

The aging ship will help relieve a housing shortage in one busy Canadian port town already bursting ahead of a promised energy boom that could last more than a decade.

The Silja Festival - a Baltic ferry made over as the Delta Spirit Lodge - will spend at least a year docked outside Kitimat, British Columbia, where it will provide housing for about 600 workers in town for Rio Tinto Alcan's $3.3 billion smelter-upgrade project, which is expected to wrap up in 2015.

After that, the ship's owners hope more contracts will float their way as major energy companies like Chevron Corp , Petronas and Royal Dutch Shell push ahead with proposed liquefied natural gas export (LNG) projects along Canada's Pacific coast.

"This kind of investment would never occur without the kind of mega-opportunities that are growing in the Pacific Northwest," said Andrew Purdy, vice president of Bridgemans Services Ltd, the privately held company behind the hotel.

"We saw the opportunity and we put it all together, but it was effectively driven by industry."

Despite the "No Vacancy" signs popping up all over town, the endeavor is risky.

Bridgemans declined to say how much it is making from its first job, but it has already spent more than C$4 million to import and upgrade the ship, with further improvements planned. It has no contract after work wraps up at the Rio smelter.

But if just four major LNG projects go ahead, roughly 15,000 extra beds

Reuters - The Silja Festival - a Baltic ferry made over as the Delta Spirit Lodge - will spend at least a year docked outside Kitimat, British Columbia, where it will provide housing for about 600 workers in town for Rio Tinto Alcan's $3.3 billion smelter-upgrade project, which is expected to wrap up in 2015.

will be needed in coastal northern British Columbia at peak construction, according to a report from National Bank Financial.

For employers, offering free top-end accommodations complete with a basketball court, a theater, a fine-dining room that serves three hearty meals a day and a captain's lounge for relaxing may be a draw in a very competitive labor market.

"We always go back to what our client wants. They want to build a platform that attracts and retains the best workers," said Purdy.

SCRAMBLING FOR SKILLED LABOR The North American energy industry is booming.

Yet as companies make new investments, there are doubts the sector will be able to find and keep the employees needed to complete all the potential projects.

Speaking at an event earlier this year, British Columbia's energy and mines minister, Bill Bennett, said the province will need to import workers from other provinces and abroad.

"If every single high school kid in B.C. graduated, became an apprentice ... it wouldn't even come close to satisfying the demand we see coming," he said.

Luring skilled labor away from other thriving areas, like the Alberta oil sands and the Bakken region driving North Dakota's

fracking boom, will take more than good pay. Workers are looking for perks.

The floating hotel, with its all-inclusive facilities and gourmet meals, may be just the ticket for companies that want to take temporary living to the next level.

The ship, which used to sleep more than 2,000 people on overnight trips across the Baltic Sea, has been retrofitted with 700 single-occupancy rooms, each fitted out with a memory foam bed and flatscreen TV. In addition to providing room and board for the temporary construction workers, the ship has meeting facilities and even a private dining area that can be rented out for special events.

The hotel also provides jobs for local residents who don't have a professional trade, the owners note, helping to ease the pain of a sharp increase in local housing costs.

TRIPLING RENTS, SOARING HOME PRICES A quick scan of real estate listings for Kitimat shows just how tight the market has become. Only two houses are listed for under C$200,000, and both are fixer-uppers.

"If the house is priced right, it sells within a few days," said Ilona Kenny, a realtor with RE/MAX Kitimat Realty who has lived in the area for nearly four decades.

"They're being snapped up by people who live here, by investors who are renting out properTo advertise call: www.nigeriancanadiannews.ca ties and families that are 416-318-3506 moving into publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca town."

Thank you for reading

The Nigerian Canadian News, Canada

admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

the Connection | mag

CONGO WARLORD BAGS 12-YEAR IMPRISONMENT

By Rukayat Yisau

By Julie Gordon | Reuters

13

The International Crimes Court, ICC, has sentenced Germain Katanga, ex Congolese militant, to 12 years imprisonment for war crimes.

Katanga, 36, also called Simba or The Lion by his supporters, was accused of masterminding the massacre of several villagers in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo The town's typical family home - an older three-bedroom, one-bathroom bungalow - is selling for about C$250,000, said Kenny, compared with C$100,000 to C$150,000 last year. In one new subdivision, not yet under construction, townhomes start at C$288,500.

Rents too have skyrocketed, which is putting pressure on long-time residents who can no longer afford their homes, said Kitimat mayor Joanne Monaghan.

"All the apartment buildings that were built in the 1970s have been purchased and are being refurbished,

in 2003. The war that ensued after these killings resulted in the death of fifty thousand more people.

He was also found guilty of planning the ambush on Bogoro village in gold-rich Ituri province of Congo.

Katanga was also charged with the crime of procuring lethal weapons used in killing over 200 of the villagers, but he was acquitted for not being directly involved in this.

Judge Bruno Cotte, who presided over the case in The Hague, Netherlandsbased court said, the grief of the fighting that Katanga sparked is still felt till today. Hence his prison term comes without an option of fine but the period of time, which is more than six years, that Katanga had already spent in ICC custody, which will be taken into account.

Source: www.tellng.com

and that's causing problems," she said. "People were paying C$400 a month rent, and now, in some cases, it's up to C$1,200 a month."

The worry is the town will soon find itself in a housing-affordability crisis, much like Williston, North Dakota, where a fracking boom delivered high-paying jobs for thousands of workers but also led to a sharp rise in homelessness.

While the housing crunch keeps Monaghan awake at night, she is happy the local economy is thriving.

There are new hotels, restaurants and retail shops in the works, and the town of 11,000 just got its first Tim

Hortons, a popular coffee shop chain that is the hallmark of a bustling Canadian town.

PARADE OF THE U-HAULS Still, the long-time politician knows that with every resource boom there is usually a bust. Indeed, the town was hit hard during the economic crisis when the local forestry industry collapsed.

"A few months after I became mayor, the Eurocan (paper mill) just pulled out. We had more U-haul trailers going out than I could shake a stick at," continued on p(51)

# 1 VALUE TO THE WORLD Serving The African Community Since 1979 We offer Excellent Fares to and from all Major AFRICAN, European and North American Cities CALL US FOR SPECIAL FARES ON KLM, DELTA, LUFTHANSA, BRUSSELS AIRLINES AND MANY MORE

For Reservations & Information Tel: 416-964-1950 Fax: 416-964-7546 Toll Free: 1-800-335-2304

info@etravelair.com 50011608

Sylvester Gyebi Travel Consultant

TORONTO

569 Yonge Street (Main Floor), Toronto, Ont

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

14

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

This Time Around to return next issue

Share a problem with Auntie Agatha

How do I solve this problem with my husband and daughter?

Dear Agatha, I’m in my early 50s and have been married for close to 18 years without a child.

About 10 years ago, I noticed certain changes in my husband’s behavior. From his staunch support of me, he became lukewarm and started making statements I couldn’t understand.

Since I have been unable to give him a child, I naturally thought his bitterness had to do with that, hence I didn’t say anything to further aggravate the situation in my home.

About two weeks ago, he called me for a heart to heart discussion in one of the restaurants he and I usesoccasionally when we didn’t feel like eating at home. I thought it was to confirm my worst fear of him having a child outside our home.

When I got there, he was in the company of a younger lady who from her appearance is very successful.

The lady also brought with her three children, all very cute.

My heart sunk at the sight of this lady and her children. It meant only one thing; this was his other wife and children. I almost didn’t want to confront him and his family but he sighted me and beckoned me to come.

Against my will, I sat down and completely ignored the other lady and her children. I didn’t even bother to be nice to the baby who at sighting me wanted me to carry her and play with her.

My husband and the woman noticed my hostility but kept quiet.

After introducing me to the woman as his wife, he asked, if I can recognise the young lady before me.

I asked him; if I should. He didn’t respond but shook his head in what appears to be annoyance.

The lady too became so hostile and gathered her children to her bosom. After an uncomfortable spell of silence in which we ordered and eat our meals, he again instructed I take a good look at the lady before answering the question of

Agathar Edo gatedo@yahoo.com agatha@gmail.com

whether I know the lady or not.

At that point, I became furious and told both of them to go to hell. I stormed out on both of them. He didn’t bother to stop me and didn’t make any reference to that scene when he got home even though I was ready to fight him.

The following day was a Saturday. As early as 7 in the morning, members of my family, his’ and the lady and her children all assembled in my house. Not even the presence of my family stopped me from ordering the lady out of my house but my aunty, who after the death of my mother, now represents my mother, overruled me.

To cut the long story short; the woman turned out to be the daughter I had when I was in secondary school. I was in form 3 when I became pregnant with her. The head-boy who was responsible for the pregnancy didn’t deny the baby; his mother took over the child from me and despite attempts by both families to make me yield to seeing the child, I never did.

Instead I ran away from home; they didn’t know my whereabouts until a decade later when I came back home. Fortunately for me, I made something out of my life and by the time I came back, my mother out of depression at my behavior had died.

Since I didn’t bother to bring up the issue of the child, no member of my family did. In my heart she was dead which is why I never discussed her with my husband or the fact that I had a child before.

Now she was in my sitting room with my grandchildren-what an irony.

My aunty was the one who called my husband a decade ago to tell him of the child. Unknown to me, he traced her and made contacts with her and was even there on her wedding day.

Since her father had died, he stepped into her life as her father.

Her children actually call him grandpa. Everybody in his family and mine are in the know.

I haven’t been myself since that meeting. My daughter has refused to talk to me. My husband too is keeping his distance.

Agatha, please help me.

I don’t know how to begin the process of thanking my husband for his love or making up with my daughter and grandchildren.

Folakemi Dear Folakemi, You are confused on how to go about the process of thanking your husband because you married one of the best men in the world.

Had he behaved like the typical average male, you would have known how to beg and plead for pardon from a man you lied to about your past.

If he had gathered your family to ask them to take you away from his home, it wouldn’t have been so confusing for you to go on your knees to beg him for forgiveness.

You are confused because he has gone ahead of you to make peace with your daughter and buy you back happiness?

What you enjoy is a very special grace from God; a very rare kind you must not continue to take for granted if your past mistake is to be buried permanently.

The fact that your husband isn’t complaining about your conduct or isn’t angry over your concealment of this vital information doesn’t mean you shouldn’t explain your past to him.

He deserves your truth and explanations. It is a simple matter of waking him up at the dead of the night and telling him everything he needs to know about your

Your handshake says a lot about you A handshake can tell a lot about a person. Researchers said the strength of someone’s grip may reveal how fast they’re aging, their education level - and even their future health.

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis researchers reviewed more than 50 published studies from around the world for their article in the journal PLOS ONE. They found that people with more education at age 69 tended to grip just as strongly as less educated people at age 65, suggesting the latter were aging about four years faster.

“According to hand grip strength, people with high education... feel several years younger compared to people with lower education,” study author Sergei Scherbov told AFP. Another study the authors reviewed was done on more than a million

Swedish adolescent males, whose handgrip strength was measured as part of an exam for military service.

Those with lower handgrip strength were significantly more likely to die earlier, have heart disease, be at higher risk of suicide and experience psychological problems.

Differences in health that correlated with handgrip strength could be seen across many of the studies, the researchers said.

“Low handgrip strength has been shown definitively to predict poor outcomes in a wide variety of

mortality, morbidity, and other health outcomes,” said the PLOS ONE study.

However, any educational and racial differences that could be parsed by handgrip tended to disappear as people reached their 90s.

The study was funded by the European Research Council as part of a grant to define new measures of aging based on people’s characteristics, such as their longevity, health, disability status and other demographic factors.

past. What transpired between you and the father of your child, how you felt and what you did in the 10 years that nobody in your family could account for you.

Let him know precisely why you never wanted to have anything to do with the child as well as why you didn’t tell him.

Although you may not realize it yet, but guilt may have made you more determined to erase the past especially as you have been unable to have another children.

Give him the benefit to know how much you appreciate him and how you would understand if after what happened he elects to marry another woman. He has to understand that you are also willingly to make the kind of unusual sacrifice he made to reconcile you with your daughter and grandchildren.

In making this offer, make sure it comes from your mind. Bear in mind the kind of rare thing this man did for you. Frankly, you may not realize how much sacrifice your man has made for you but would when you begin to enjoy the company of your grandchildren and daughter.

It takes a different kind of love to make a man do what your husband did for you. The truth is, he has since forgiven you but is

just waiting for you to explain so many things about your past to him. The fact that he didn’t ask for annulment of the marriage, didn’t come back home to fight and make life difficult for you or bring home another woman makes it absolutely important you answer all the questions agitating his mind.

This is because you cannot ask for forgiveness without first clearing the webs of the past.

Afterwards, go on your knees and ask for forgiveness. Although it has taken him 10 years to build up his forgiveness, hearing you ask for it will wipe clean whatever doubts remains in his system.

As for your daughter, it is easy to get her to speak with you once you make peace with your husband. Having built a relationship with her, established his love for her as well as earn her trust and respect, getting her to come over to your place won’t be any problem to your husband.

But, you have to beg your daughter on your own. You hurt that woman who is today your only child. You have to really plead with her to forgive what you did to her when she was a baby and all the years you denied her existence even to yourself.

Humble yourself before

her because if the truth be told, you are the one who needs her now; not her because if she has lived the critical stages of her life without you, she might as well pretend you are dead.

Unlike her, you need her and your grandchildren to give light to your life, make you feel complete and happy as a woman.

The fact that your husband has in a way adopted her as his own makes it imperative for you to reach out and hold on to her. Though your biological child, she has become more of your husband’s than yours. When issues of life becomes this complicated and extremely complex, it becomes useless trying to explain one’s reasons for an action taken. You don’t have any excuse but to really beg your daughter to forgive you.

Agreeing to meet with you at that restaurant and coming to your house afterwards means she isn’t bitter anymore. Disappointed at you maybe, but the role your husband has assumed in her life has made it possible for her to understand your person.

She is only waiting for you to accept and love her as her mother.

Apologizing to her would make it possible for you to assume that role.

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

AFP-Relaxnews

Good luck.

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

THE NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS

EDITORIAL

15

the Connection | mag

The Nigerian Nightmare Continues…

Publisher

Ngozi Ugoh admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

ncnewsoffice@gmail.com www.nigeriancanadiannews.ca

Tel: 416-318-3506 Editor In Chief Correspondent - Nigeria: Kola Olulana admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

> Editor/Foriegn Correspondent – Ghana: Solomon Aremu

> Youth: Dinma Ugoh

admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

> Advertising Executive: Ogo Anozie admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

> Classified: Peter Ikechukwu

admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

> Contributors Pastor Taiwo Odubiyi (USA) Richard Meseko Akadu Frank Ofili - Nigeria Agathar Edo Dima Ugoh

> Graphics & Layout Mevlana Media Solutions Inc.

Tel: 647-499-6008

computertrusting@gmail.com

>

AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER Tel:

416-318-3506

The 200 girls kidnapped

by Boko Haram are still missing and torture for Nigerian families continues on into its second month.

The Nigerian government was making a deal with the militant organisation to exchange 100 girls with captured terrorists but this deal fell through for reasons unknown. The deal was suspended at about the same time the Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan met his counterparts from Benin, Cameroon, Niger and Chad in France to come up with an action plan to for the release of the girls.

The ineptness of the government may well be due to the President and military playing politics.

The political leadership of the three north-eastern states, where there is most trouble, is aligned with the opposing All Progressive’s Congress. The impression that the government has is that Boko Haram is created and funded by the north to play politics and this may explain why the President distanced himself from the kidnapping affair in April. Factions, low morale and dishonesty in military has allowed the militant threat to get a strong foothold in Nigeria, and it seems the problem has been swept under the rug since 2009.

Only now that the mass kidnapping has made it to international news has the government come under real pressure to finally address the problem.

The problem is a Nigerian one and the solution must be also be Nigerian.

The US, UK, China and France have sent in teams and equipment to help find the girls but further military intervention may be unlikely. There has been an international campaign calling for foreign intervention to help the girls. This has been most visible on Twitter with the hashtag #bringbackourgirls. However, if the problem has to be solved for the long term, Nigeria has to make sure its own people and government is at the forefront of the counter-insurgency. Western presence in the country will only make Boko Haram more violent, and get it more support from conservative factions in the country.

The fear is that more uneducated youth could end up as recruits for groups like Boko Haram with the education system in tatters. The difficulty Nigeria is facing is not just the kidnapping of the girls. The problem is widespread and numerous recent incidents show the increasingly violent nature of Boko Haram. On 16 May militants attacked a camp run by a Chinese engineering company in north Cameroon, near the Nigerian border and ten Chinese workers were abducted. In an attack on a village in Northern Nigeria 11 people were killed.

Boko Haram has killed at least 500 civilians since

NEED NEWSLETTER/BULLETIN FOR YOUR CHURCH?

www.nigeriancanadiannews.ca

Contact us: publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca

*Member Of The National Ethnic Press & Media Council Of Canada, Inc.

416-318-3506

E-mail: ncnewsoffice@gmail.com

The Nigerian Canadian News and The African Canadian News are published monthly by The Nigerian Canadian Business & Resources Directory.

Views expressed in newspaper do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the publisher.

All rights reserved. No part of the newspapers may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher.

the mass kidnapping. Not to vote for leftist parties. them to help the economy. only is education under However in Canada at the While the Conservative fire with children across last general elections, im- are talking about jobs and the country now afraid to migrants were more likely the economy in their camgo to school, but the Boko to vote Conservative. The paign, Michael Coteau in Haram insurgency may credit for this goes to Jason an interview said he that also put a stumbling block Kenny, the former minis- improving health care in the path to polio eradi- ter for immigration and and the education system cation in Nigeria. Nigeria a contender to become are more specific issues to and Pakistan are the only party leader after Stephen look at. countries in the world Harper. Kenney recogOn 28 May, the world where polio has not yet nized the competition the lost a beloved voice that been eradicated.

Conservative party face had stood up against racCrossing the Atlantic as new settlers often end ism and enchanted countinto Canada, the Ontario up in areas represented less people with its poetry election is coming up by left of centre parties. and courage. Maya Anand the Conservatives in The conservative party gelou was a master of all their campaign trail have would have to get to these trades and had professionpainted the Liberal party people first so they could ally been a poet, writer, acas corrupt, especially the define themselves before tress, director and dancer.

Premier Kathleen Wyn- the other parties demon- She was a journalist in ne. Wynne has attacked ized them so immigrants Egypt and Ghana during Conservative Leader Tim know that the party is not decolonization. She was a Hudak for being reckless associated with greed or coordinator for the Southwhen he promised to fire racism. ern Christian leadership 100,000 civil servants if The incumbent Michael Conference and active in elected. Hudak on his part Coteau, MPP for the Don the American Civil Rights plans to build more jobs Valley East riding in To- Movements working with in the future, but wants to ronto, has a mandate to Martin Luther King Jr., cut government spending. lower school fees and im- and Malcolm X. Beyond The New Democratic prove nutrition in school. issues of race and gender Party has risen to promi- As a member of the Lib- rights, Maya Angelou was nence providing tough eral Party he has stated one of the few people in competition for the Lib- the biggest issue in Don history to address the unieral party. The upcoming Valley East riding is to de- versal human spirit. provincial elections could velop infrastructure and While our prayers are be indecisive. In the On- decrease unemployment. with the unfortunate girls tario election votes for With education levels al- being held hostage by the the New Democrat Party ready higher than other Boko Haram, we also pay could put Hudak in the provinces, the riding is respect to Maya Angepremier’s office as head doing well. Tim Hudak lou’s great soul, a soul that of a minority government has stated that he will do spoke up for women and due to potential coali- more for immigrants, black people across the tion building. Ontario has however Coteau was of the globe. Canada is a country twice had minority gov- opinion that the party has with rights and we should ernments in the last few not really addressed the be honoured to exercise years and this could hap- issue of immigrants and the privileges we have and pen again. Wynne is not it was actually the Liber- participate in the political happy with this, and has al party that introduced process. What the Nigecalled out the New Demo- the Ontario Immigration rian Canadians can and cratic Party leader Andrea Act to give Ontario more should do immediately Howarth for betraying her control over immigration. is to go out and vote and own party’s principles if a Coteau advocates immi- even contest elections in collation forms. grants having strong edu- the future to help develop Canada is a strange case cational backgrounds for their communities. when it comes to voting. In “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; most Western and to so with some passion, some compassion, countries, imsome humor, and some style” migrants and ethnic mi-Maya Angelou norities tend

U.S. Announces New Visa Renewal Process for Nigerians The U.S. Mission to Nigeria on Tuesday announced a new visa renewal process for applicants, tagged Expanded DHL Drop Box Visa programme.

The mission in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria,

NAN, in Lagos said that the new visa renewal system would commence on June 2.

“The U.S. Mission to Nigeria is pleased to announce the expanded DHL Drop Box Visa Renewal Programme on June 2,

2014.

“This programme allows certain visa applicants who have previously been issued U.S. visas to renew their visas without attending an interview.

“The programme now covers B1/B2 visas that

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

have expired not more than two years prior to re-issuance and F, L and H visas that have expired not more than one year prior to reissuance,” it said.

The statement advised applicants to visit the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria’s Web-

site for information on the needed criteria for renewals.

It, however, said that applicants’ participation in the programme was not a guarantee for visa issuance.

-Premium Times

16

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

FAMILY Top 5 tips for selecting the right pet food

How to manage your money (NC) According to a 2013 report, over one-third of Canadians are spending more money than they make each month. As a result, consumer debt levels in Canada were recorded at an all-time high of about $1.4-trillion in February 2014.These financial trends emphasize the important of understanding your current financial position and prioritizing the implementation of a plan that will address your fina ncial situations head on.

Achieving financial stability requires self-discipline, support and reliable tools.

The credit-counselling experts at Money Mentor offer the following suggestions for those individuals ready to tackle their debt: • Get Organized Have a clear picture of your current finances. Record how much income, investments and assets you have, as well as any debt.

• Set financial goals It is important to set and prioritize goals. Some examples may include paying down debts, creating an emergency fund or starting to save.

• Develop a budget and

track your spending Start by keeping track of all your incoming and outgoing funds. Create spending categories such as food, entertainment, credit card payments and rent. Once you have an idea of how much you spend you will be able to create a budget and find areas where you can cut back.

• Start saving Start saving for irregular expenses, an emergency fund or towards retirement.

When you receive an increase at work or a tax refund save that money. Also save the money on expenses you cut back on, like eating out.

• Pay down your debt Develop a plan that helps

you pay down debt. Stop using your credit card unless you know you can pay for those purchases before the end of your billing cycle.

Talk to your bank about reducing interest rates on your credit card so more of your payments go towards your debt.

Money Mentors is an Alberta-based, not-for-profit credit-counselling agency that helps families and individuals recover from financial crisis and move forward using services such as credit counselling, money coaching, retirement planning and community financial literacy. .

For more information call, 1-888-294-0076 or visit Facebook.com/MoneyMentors and twitter.com/MoneyMentors

The History of Father’s Day By: Alexandra Heep

Food Preferences Although, like humans, pets have taste buds, they usually choose a food by smell. This means that they enjoy certain foods and flavours more than others. If they aren’t enjoying or finishing their meal, you can try a different recipe. For instance, perhaps a recipe with duck or salmon will please your pet more than another source of protein.

One Size Does Not Fit All Pets need different nutrients based on their life stage, body condition and activity level, so consider choosing food based on whether they are puppies or kittens, or senior dogs or cats. Moreover, you may want to be on the lookout for food geared toward the size of your pet – different companies offer recipes that are created spe-

cifically with small or large dogs in mind.

Consider Grains Grains can act as an energy source for pets, but be sure to look for wholesome and healthy grains, such oats and quinoa, in the ingredients list.

These will provide necessary fuel and keep your pets fuller for longer.

elimination diet to figure out what is upsetting its system.

Dixon adds that some products like GO! SENSITIVITY + SHINE by Petcurean are specially formulated for dogs and cats with specific dietary needs. The recipes also contain prebiotics and probiotics to aid digestion, plus antioxidants to support increased immunity.

“Choosing the right food for your pet can be a bit of a challenge,” Dixon continues, “but making the right choice can certainly pay off. We encourage pet owners to use our selector tool to find the appropriate product for their animal’s menu.” By paying special attention to your pet’s wants and needs, you will ensure they are energized and healthy.

Identify Sensitivities Does your pet have food sensitivities? If so, start an

More information is available at www.petcurean.com/ food-selector/.

Protein is Key Protein is a key component to ensuring your pet stays healthy and strong. “Pets need protein to thrive and survive,” says Dixon. “Make sure that meat is one of the top three ingredients in any recipe you select to ensure that your dog or cat is getting enough of this essential nutrient.”

Battery Tips

Father’s Day, a worldwide phenomenon, is celebrated on the third Sunday in June. While it now may be a popular day for the greeting card industry, the history of Father’s Day precedes this custom.

Sonora Smart Dodd Sonora Smart Dodd, who was married to John Dodd and was a resident of Spokane, Wash., is

(NC) Pet owners have long faced the conundrum of what to feed their pet. The process of selecting food can be overwhelming, especially with the variety of options available in any given store. Michele Dixon, a specialist in pet health and nutrition at pet food company Petcurean, gives us her guidance on this task so that in future, your shopping experience will be smoother and more enjoyable:

Car Batteries

credited with starting the recognition o f dads. She was one of six children raised on a rural farm by

her father, a veteran of the Civil War, after his wife died giving birth to their sixth child.

As an adult, Sonora became inspired by a sermon in 1909 on Mother’s Day. This was during a time when Mother’s Day was becoming accepted as a recognized holiday.

During the sermon, she realized the sacrifices her father, William Smart, had made raising six children, including a newborn -- all when men often took no part in raising children or other duties seen as woman’s work.

Sonora suggested to

Always buy the biggest and longest lasting battery you can fit into your car.

A powerful battery saves wear and tear on the vehi-

local religious leaders that they honor fathers because they, too, could exhibit selflessness, not just strength, as she had observed in person during her own upbringing.

June was chosen for Father’s Day because her father’s birthday was in that month. The first recognition of this day took place in Spokane in 1910, on June 19.

Presidential recognition President

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Calvin

cle’s starting, charging, and electrical systems Dirty battery terminals can adversely affect the electronic equipment in your car, including the

Coolidge supported Father’s Day officially in 1924. In 1966, it was formally designated a national holiday by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In 1972, 62 years after its first observance, the third Sunday of June was proclaimed legally as the national Father’s Day. Observation While it originated as a religious holiday, Father’s Day is now celebrated by giving presents and greeting cards. A lesser-known

computer, which in turn affects the digital dashboard displays as well as the cellular phone if you have one.

Reader’s Digest

observation is that of wearing a rose on the day of celebration. A white one signals that a father is deceased, while a red one indicates that he is still alive.

In addition, Father’s Day is not only for biological dads anymore.

Uncles, grandfathers and other adult males who have taken on parenting roles are now honored, as well.

Source : www.life123. com

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

the Connection | mag

How to Simplify Your Life in 5 Minutes a Day

By Greg McKeown

The situation for many of us is that life is fast and full of opportunity. The complication is we think we have to do everything.

The implication of this is that we make a millimeter progress in a million directions. My position is we can make a different choice.

We can learn to recognize what is essential and eliminate nonessentials. If we do this then we can operate at a higher point of contribution. Below are five simple ways to simplify your life so you can focus on what is most essential.

The Priority Game When the word priority came into the English language in the 1400s, it was singular. Think for a moment: What did it mean?

The answer is the prior or very first thing. What’s interesting is it stayed singular for the next 500 years. It wasn’t until the 1900s that

we came up with the pluralized term and started using the word priorities. But what exactly does the word mean? Can there be multiple very first things?

In the spirit of this, take five minutes to write down the most important six activities for tomorrow. Then cross off the bottom five.

Write down your priority on a Post-it note and put it on your computer. Schedule a ninety-minute window to work on that priority - preferably the first thing of the day.

60 Seconds to Clarity

Pause once every hour for one minute to ask, “Is this the most important or valuable thing I could be doing right now?”If the answer is no, simply stop.

Two for the Price of One Establish a new rule for one day: If you want to add a new activity you need to edit out two existing activities.This simple rule ensures two things. First, you don’t add an activity that is less valuable than something you are already doing.

Second, it helps to ensure you move toward reducing continued on p(47)

AstraZeneca rejects $117bn bid British drugs giant AstraZeneca on Monday rejected a final takeover bid from US rival Pfizer worth $117-billion, saying it undervalued the firm.

Pfizer on Sunday made an improved and final offer worth £69-billion, pitched at £55 per share, but added that it would not proceed without a recommendation from AstraZeneca’s management.

“We have rejected Pfizer’s final proposal because it is inadequate and would present significant risks for shareholders, while also having serious consequences for the company, our employees and the life-sciences sector in the UK, Sweden and the US,” said AstraZeneca chairman Leif Johansson.

Pfizer, which makes Viagra, had on Friday lifted its proposal to £53.50 per share, from the previous level of £50.

However, AstraZeneca declared that it would only be prepared to recommend an offer of more than 10 percent above the £53.50 level, indicating a price of £58.85 or £3.85 more than the latest offer.

“The final proposal is

a minor improvement which continues to fall short of the Board’s view of value and has been rejected,” said Johansson.

He added: “As an independent company, the entire value of AstraZeneca’s (drugs) pipeline will accrue to our shareholders. Under Pfizer’s final proposal, this value would be significantly diluted.”

Under the latest bid, Pfizer shareholders would own approximately 73 percent of the new firm, while the British group’s shareholders would hold 27 percent.

AstraZeneca, which has repeatedly snubbed Pfizer’s takeover attempt, attacked the bid for offering to establish its corporate and tax residency in England.

Pfizer wants to create a new pharmaceuticals giant which would be domiciled for tax purposes

in Britain.

“Pfizer’s approach throughout its pursuit of AstraZeneca appears to have been fundamentally driven by the corporate financial benefits to its shareholders of cost savings and tax minimisation,” added Johansson.

This appeared to be a reference to big tax charges which would fall due on profits held abroad should Pfizer decide to transfer them to the United States.

“From our first meeting in January to our latest discussion yesterday, and in the numerous phone calls in between, Pfizer has failed to make a compelling strategic, business or value case, Johansson said.

“The board is firm in its conviction as to the appropriate terms to recommend to shareholders.”

AFP

17

Things to consider while house hunting It’s quite common to hear home owners say they knew within minutes of walking into a home if it was right for them.

However, Ontario Realtors want to remind prospective home buyers that more than a feeling needs to be considered before making an offer to buy a home.

“While the first few minutes of a showing can be very telling, it’s very important to look beyond the features that match your criteria,” says Costa Poulopoulos, president of the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA). “Location, number of bedrooms and washrooms, backyard size, kitchen style, etc. – these are some of the big ticket items on a home buyer’s checklist. There are a number of not-soobvious features home buyers should be looking for to help them decide if a home is right for them.”

Here is a list of some of the less obvious things home buyers should consider when viewing a prospective home: Immediate surroundings – Be sure to visit the home at various times of day to get a true sense of its surroundings. If you’re

visiting a home on the weekend, you may not notice how much traffic runs through the neighbourhood on weekdays, or how noisy it can get due to the adjacent school.

Neighbours – Residents are the window into a neighbourhood. Talk to them – they’ll be able to fill you in on things that may have an impact on your decision to either buy, or walk away, from a home.

The view – If you’re considering a bungalow, but don’t have any plans to build a two-storey home, it’s wise to pay attention to any development happening in the neighbourhood.

While you might not have plans to build, the bungalow next to you might one day become a large new home that may affect the light in your home or your view.

Remodelling challenges – Discuss your remodelling plans with the seller’s Realtor. Don’t assume that you’ll be able to rearrange the kitchen in the home you’re considering. A wall, sink or counter may be where they are because of structural reasons, and you don’t want to be disappointed to learn that only

after buying the house.

The frills – Prepare a list of all the things that stand out as perks in the home you’re considering, and make note of how they might affect you financially. For instance, a big yard is lovely in the summer months, but maintaining it might cause a spike in your water bill.

The little things – Don’t be too quick to discount things that seem minor in comparison to your overall love of the home.

For example, a detached garage may seem like a minor thing, but you may not think so in the winter months or when you have groceries to carry into your home.

“Try to be as candid as possible with your Realtor when drawing up your home wish list – if you’re both on the same page, you’ll be sure to find a home that meets most, if not all, of your needs and wants,” says Poulopoulos.

More information is available at, www.wedothehomework.ca This article is provided by local REALTORS® and the Ontario Real Estate Association for the benefit of consumers in the real estate market.

Tradespeople are needed to kick-start Ontario’s economy (NC) The numbers are in, and they are daunting.

According to the Conference Board of Canada, there will be a shortage of more than 360,000 skilled trade workers by 2025, and that number could increase to more than 500,000 by 2030.

To put this into perspective: the population of Oshawa is about 350,000, and Waterloo Region, 500,000.

In other words, that’s a lot of people that the skilled trades must attract to keep Ontario competitive.

Alan Reid, associate dean in the School of Skilled Trades at Oakville’s Sheridan College says he is confident that the trades have a robust future in Ontario, but did admit there are still hurdles. As an example, Reid points to the global recession of 2008. The North American

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

manufacturing sector took a real beating and it led to a sense among the public that jobs like machinist and tool-and-dye maker would not be in demand in the future. This, says Reid, couldn’t be further from the truth.

“Right now, the trades are very much in demand and the number one request from industries is for machinists and tool and dye makers. But some parents and teachers and guidance counselors are saying to students, ‘No, don’t follow that path.’”

The future of Ontario’s economy depends on the province’s tradespeople and the Ontario College of Trades, the province’s member-driven regulatory body for the skilled trades, is doing everything it can to actively promote the trades.

So far, the effort has been robust.

The College is currently participating in programs like the Ontario Technological Skills Competition. This is a yearly event that brings together young people studying a skilled trade or technology to compete.

In addition, the college will also be reaching out by partnering with parenting and career expert, Dr. Karyn Gordon.

“Attracting people to this career path is a priority,” says the college’s chief executive officer, David Tsubouchi. “We’re confident that we can reach many of the talented young people in high school classrooms and in workshops across this province to show them that working in this field is highly rewarding and worthwhile.”

18

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Lagos spot that serves hot, spicy snake meat pepper soup At the mere mention of a snake, most people take to their heels, filled with a justifiable dread of the creepy animals. But on the other side of the divide are people who consider pepper soup made from meat of certain types of snakes a delicacy to die for and never pass up an opportunity to relish it.

You will not find Bright Omoruyi, a dermatologist, among the people who love eating snake meat, because to members o f his lineage it is an abomination that is strictly forbidden. But for connoisseurs of the creepy animal, No 8, Alafia Street, Baba Ijebu bus stop in Meiran community, Lagos is a must-visit snake meat peppersoup spot, where they unwind after a hectic day.

As would be expected, debates over topical issues and the performance of European soccer stars take centre stage as the patrons happily munch pieces of well-cooked portions of boa constrictor or python meat, both of which are the snakes of choice prepared by the owners of the joint. Among the Yoruba, these the boa constrictor is known as mono mono.

Providing snake meat pepper soup is not a business for just about anybody or the lily-livered. The primary reason is that it requires a certain expertise to make the dish fantastic for customers. The method of preparation of the dish determines whether customers would accept the outcome.

Sunday Sun learnt from Saidi Oloruntele that some faithful customers come from as far Port Harcourt, Rivers State to the joint. He said: “l have a friend who always comes from Port Harcourt because of this special pepper soup, and some other people from other states as well. I am only aware of two places that this kind of business is being run in Lagos.

It is not something anybody can just dabble into because it involves some technical stages in preparing it. The snakes prepared in the place are reared and exported from Cotonou, Benin Republic. The operator of the special restaurant buys them fresh, though already killed.

The snake meat pepper soup spot has existed for so many years.”

When the restaurant gets a large quantity of snakes from the suppliers in Cotonou, they are specially sauced and cooked. Thereafter, the cooked meat is preserved by

frying and then sun-dried.

Oloruntele further revealed that the woman who owns the restaurant has spent so much time and effort to win the loyalty of her esteemed customers. A plate of the delicacy goes for a token price of N400. The snake pepper soup is usually served hot to the buyers.

According to connoisseurs, who spoke with Sunday Sun on condition of anonymity, it is more enjoyable when hot.

They further claimed that snake is more delicious and nutritious than other varieties of meat.

One regular patron of the spot, Azeez glowingly affirmed that, “There is nothing with eating snake, it is really delicious. You will enjoy it better when served hot.

I will advise you to give it a try and if you do so, you may want to be coming here everyday. Another factor is the way it is prepared here. The woman really knows how to cook the meat. Many people come here in different highclass cars, just to have a taste of it. It is nice and if you try it, l promise you will not regret the taste.”

Another customer who gave his name as Kayode-B said snake meat pepper soup is more affordable when compared to other types of meat or fish pepper soup.

“I do come here occasionally to relax and enjoy myself with the delicious meal. When you come here on Fridays and Saturdays, you will agree with me that snake pepper soup is the best meat for you. People come from Victoria Island, Ikeja, Gbagada and other parts of Lagos, all because of the pepper soup,” he said.

The owner of the eatery, investigation revealed, is smiling to the bank given the level patronage. Customers attribute her success to the way she prepares the pepper soup. They attest to this by showering encomiums on her, stating that she keeps learning and adding one or two spices to make the meat tastier and more appealing to the palate.

Ebipaunmene Chris who has been a patron for some-

time said the delicacy was incomparable with other meat.

He said: “It is a special kind of animal that has a unique taste, such that when you finish one plate, you still want more of the pepper soup.

On people’s dislike of the snake pepper soup, he offered an explanation: “Basically, people dislike it because it frightens or hurts when alive. Some believe that when they eat it, the animal may still pose danger in their stomach. They are just nursing the fear, but there is certainly nothing wrong with snake meat. This woman is gifted in preparing the pepper soup. God’s gifts come in different ways, and making snake meat pepper soup is her own special gift from God, and it is a worthy one.”

Already, two of the woman’s children have received a portion of her “anointing” and are fast learning from their mother how to make fantastic dishes. Customers who have tasted their dishes swear that the quality is quite good. The children are eagerly positioning for the day when their mother would hang her chef ’s spoon and apron to enjoy a welldeserved retirement.

“It is a good idea teaching them to take over from her.

They are mostly in charge, especially when their mum is not around. They are coolheaded and know how to satisfy customers’ palates,” Chris said.

Like it is said, one man’s meat is another person’s poison. Such is the case with Mr Sunday Chimezie who frowns at the mere mention of snake. He said he could never patronize such eatery for any other thing.

His words: “In my village, it is satanic to eat snake.

Among all edible animals, how can someone settle for snake. I understand some people even go further to use their money to buy and eat it.

It is unimaginable. Well, one man’s bread, as they say, is another man’s poison. Frankly speaking, for my family and I, it is a no go area.”

Sun News

Blood pressure too high?

Try olive oil Eating unsaturated fats, like those in olive oil, along with leafy greens and other vegetables create a certain kind of fatty acid that lowers blood pressure, scientists said Monday.

These nitro fatty acids are formed when consuming spinach, celery and carrots that are filled with nitrates and nitrites, along with avocado, nuts and olive oils that contain healthy fats.

Nitro fatty acids appear to inhibit an enzyme known as soluble epoxide hydrolase, which regulates blood pressure, said the research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.

The study was based on experiments in lab mice, and was funded by the British Heart Foundation.

"The findings of our study help to explain why previous research has shown that a Mediterranean diet supplemented

with extra-virgin olive oil or nuts can reduce the incidence of cardiovascular problems like stroke, heart failure and heart attacks," said Philip Eaton, professor of cardiovascular biochemistry at King's College London.

While most experts agree that the Mediterranean diet - which consists of lots of vegetables, fish, grains, red wine and fatty nuts and oils brings health benefits, there has been little scientific consensus about how or why.

Some have touted red wine as a driving force behind the ability of Europeans to eat high fat cheeses and meats while maintaining better overall health than Americans.

But research published last week found that a key antioxidant in red wine, resveratrol, did not help people in Italy live longer or avoid cancer or heart disease.

AFP-Relaxnews

Sxc.hu Corriander Coriader (known as cilantro in its leafy form) is a powerful bacteria fighter. A study found that oil from Corinader seedswhich destroys dangerous cells by damaging theirs membranes and interfering with cellular respiration is effective in wiping out strains from E.coli to salmonella.

Add the seeds to everything from fruit salads to pasta. Or try culinary nutritionist Tricia Williams’s trick of steeping toasted corinander seeds in oil, then tossing quinoa in the flavored oil.

Oprah Magazine

IBB spits fire: denies Boko Haram sponsorship *****Says “Haliru Sani’s Statements Are Effusions of A Deluded Mind” The Ibrahim Babangida camp has at last offered a response to the allegation of sponsorship of the Boko Haram sect levelled against the former military President. A statement issued by General Babangida’s Media Spokesman denied any links with Sani Haliru, the repented Boko Haram member.

The statement reads inter alia “We feel a deep sense of concern that the country is going through these obvious challenges of insecurity and bad leadership that are threatening the very fabric of the country’s foundation. We have read and assimilated the effusions of a deluded mind by name Sheik Sani Haliru, who for want of very cheap relevance decided to mention the highly respected name of IBB as one of the “sponsors” of what he called Boko Haram. From our first reading, we felt it would amount to giving undue relevance to a confused mind if we volunteer a response, but for our teem-

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Ibrahim Babangida

ing supporters, associates and friends of IBB, and for the price we owe history, we decided to offer this disclaimer.

First, General IBB cannot in his frame of mind remember any of such names called Sheik Sani Haliru whether as an Almajiri or a jihadist or both. Reading through the interview, one is easily confronted with a number of inconsistencies and well orchestrated conclusions that are spuriously out of place. One, Dele Giwa did not die of suicide bombing as claimed by Sani Haliru. It is public knowledge that he died of parcel bomb and the latest insight by Rev.Chris Omeben as published in Sunday Sun of 5th February, 2012 will form an instructive reading. Secondly, we have every cause to believe that the interview was carefully scripted to convey the message intended and not

one conducted under a question and answer basis.

The responses of the said Sani Haliru attest to this fact.

From that premise therefore, it will be save to conclude that the interview was structured by certain agents of government to satisfy pre-determined position. Thirdly, the questions by the interviewer are also leading questions, tending to achieve the predetermined end of the initiators of the interview. The emphasis on seeing Islam as a religion of violence is a clear indication of this motive. Fourthly, on the one hand, the interviewee declared himself to be a converted Christian, while on the other hand, he was asking for someone that will connect him to God. He talked about his fear of going to jail, why will a man of God be afraid of incarceration or jail if the cause he is pursuing is truly altruistic? How could someone with facts about Boko Haram be saying that he is afraid the SSS will arrest him if he ventured those facts, when the whole wide world is patiently waiting to continued on p(36)

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Lola's Catering We Cater To All Occasions

SPECIALIZING IN: • • • • •

Meat/Beef Pastries • Sausage Roll Fish Roll • Puff-Puff • Buns-Scotch Egg Chin-Chin • Moin - Moin - Akara Jollof Rice • Fried Rice • Rice & Beans Fried Yam Etc…

Call us today for all your party needs

the Connection | mag

AVOCADOS To soften a hard avocado (but not really to ripen it) Place it in a microwave at medium power for no more than 45 seconds, rotating the avocado every 15 minutes.

BANANAS Bananas in the refrigerator?

Yes, you can store bananas in the refrigerator-either in a sealed plastic container or wrapped in newspapers. The peel will turn brown, but the flesh inside will be unaffected. The cold slows down the ripening process, so that the fruit keeps longer.

To ripen bananas quickly, put them in a brown paper bag with an apple or two.

Close the bag for faster ripening.

BAKING Baked goods cook faster

WE CARRY:

1822 Jane St. (Jane & Queen Dr.)

Meat & Fish • Spices • Vegetables and much more

Preparation Time : 5 minutes Makes: 2 servings

63 Dundas St. West Mississauga, ON L5B 1H7 Also carry: Beauty & Hair Products Shea Butter, African Black Soap etc.

905-281-9515

LAURI MEAT MARKET

BIGGEST SUPPLIERS OF FRESH MEAT PRODUCTS Burnt Goat Wholesalers - Half or Whole medium-high heat.

Brown chicken about 2 minutes on each side.

Place chicken in slow cooker. Combine soy sauce, vinegar, ketchup, sugar, garlic, ginger, and pepper flakes in small bowl; pour over chicken.

Cook on LOW for 3 to

4 hours. Add cashews and stir. Serve over rice.

Makes 4-6 servings.

If you want like sauce and want to have some to pour over the chicken and the rice, double the sauce ingredients.

-Your Guide to simply recipes (FB)

Apple Blueberry Smoothie Kids love snacking on apples so why not add one to your next smoothie! This one is a winner with fresh tasting apple and blueberries to brighten your day.

This is a perfect portable snack for the car on your way to a game after school.

Ian, from Belle River, thinks kids will like this recipe because it is yummy and healthy and has two of the food groups from Canada’s Food Guide.

Readers Digest

Yams, Beans, Rice, Gari, Fufu, Semovita, Palm Oil, Plantain, Bread, Milo, Maggi etc

Crockpot Cashew Chicken

Directions: Combine flour and pepper in large Ziploc bag.

Add chicken. Shake to coat with flour mixture.

Heat oil in skillet over

in glass than in metal, so if you are using a glass pie or cake pan, reduce the oven temperature given in a recipe by 140 (25F).

AFRICAN CARIBBEAN GROCERIES INC.

Tel: 647-427-4773 Tel: 416-522-8625

Ingredients: 2 lbs boneless, skinless chicken thigh tenders or chicken breast tenders 1/4 cup all purpose flour 1/2 tsp black pepper 1 Tbsp canola oil 1/4 cup soy sauce 2 Tbsp rice wine vinegar 2 Tbsp ketchup 1 Tbsp brown sugar 1 garlic clove, minced 1/2 tsp grated fresh ginger 1/4 tsp red pepper flakes 1/2 cup cashews

19

Ingredients ½ cup plain yogurt (1% M.F) 125 mL 1 ripe banana 1 1 apple, cored, peeled and chopped 1 ½ cup fresh or frozen blueberries 125 mL ¼ cup 100% orange juice 60 mL Directions 1. Place yogurt, banana, apple, blueberries and orange juice in a blender.

Cover and puree until smooth.

Tips • For a cool treat simply use frozen blueberries and a frozen banana in the recipe.

• Use tart apples like Granny Smith or Northern Spy for a refreshing tangy flavour or try Royal Gala or Honey Crisp apples for a sweeter version.

Nutrition information per serving: Calories: 149, Protein: 4.4g, Fat: .5g, Carbohydrate: 34.7g, Fibre: 2.9g, Sodium: 45mg, Calcium 114mg, Iron .4mg Source: www.eatrightontario.ca

Beef, Goat, Sheep, Chicken, Tripe 1696 Jane St. Toronto On

NOW OPEN ON SUNDAY 10AM - 4PM

Special: Full Cow $800

We Have Our Own Farm

Farm: 1.800.443.3802 Store: 416.247.9899

All Types of Beef

A TO Z AFRICAN & WEST INDIAN MARKET A to Z Foods Wholesale & Retail

We Specialize in African Foods

Rice, Beans, Yam, Gari, Plantain, Elubo, Stockfish etc.

West Indian Foods

Hallah Meat & Fish Cosmetics & Hair Supplies All Types of Diapers “We’ll deliver to your Home or Business”

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Nigerian Movies

Tel: 647-436-2550 Cell: 416-880-6796 We have moved to a bigger location to serve you better

NEW ADDRESS:

1040 Albion Rd, Etobicoke (Albion & Islington intersection)

ON M9V 1A7

20

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

OPINION

Our Girls Deserve to be Back Home Now – Negotiation is Not Only Necessary, But Long Overdue

By Dr. Temitope Adefarakan

It is extremely concerning that over 6 weeks ago on April 14, 2014, close to 300 Nigerian girls were kidnapped from their school in the remote Northern town of Chibok by the terrorist group Boko Haram.

Approximately 53 girls courageously risked their lives and escaped, yet the remaining girls which number over 200 have yet to be brought back home to their mothers, father and families, alive and well.

The people of Nigeria have not rested and refused to remain silent. Raising their voices and placards, they took to the streets appealing to President Goodluck Jonathan and his office to do their job in finding our kidnapped school girls and safely bring them home.

The most courageous have been the women, mothers, families and relatives of the kidnapped girls, alongside the local townspeople such as hunters and market women across the country who, in frustration, grief and anger over Jonathan, the Nigerian military and their government’s slow and feeble response, desperately took to the Sambisi forest themselves where it is believed the girls were initially abducted into, clearly in the hopes of bringing their daughters, sisters and loved ones home. When warned by villagers that they were close to the Boko Haram camps and that both they and the girls would be killed if they ventured any further into the forest, the parents and families of the abducted Chibok girls were forced to turn back without their daughters safely in their arms.

Meanwhile, due to the relentless protests and calls of Nigerian women and mothers on the ground, global outrage was slowly building and diasporic Nigerians, alongside an international community of supporters across the globe heard the people of Chibok’s cries and stood in solidarity to also demand that our missing school girls be brought back home.

Yet, after over a month of crying, protesting, demand-

ing, marching and doing one’s best to raise awareness and sustain pressure on President Jonathan and the Nigerian government to expediently and effectively do their job in searching for and rescuing our girls, they still are not home.

As a Nigerian-Canadian and mother myself, I am only left imagining the utter anguish of having sent one’s child to school one day and not have them return. I can only imagine the distress that comes when one learns that your daughter has been kidnapped by a notoriously violent terrorist group. I cannot imagine appealing to one’s government for your child’s safe return, only to have your President make a disingenuous formal statement a tardy three weeks later because their priority was the upcoming World Economic Summit in Abuja. It is for this reason that I am deeply disappointed in the Nigerian government’s slow and neglectful response to having our girls rescued and safely brought back home.

This week it was reported by top Nigerian military officials that they have located the kidnapped girls, but would not use force to rescue them. And I do agree with this: that use of force will only be met with force, inciting more terrible violence and terrorism from Boko Haram. This is precisely the reason negotiation is not only necessary, but given the inexcusable 6 weeks it has taken to locate the girls, along with the subsequent kidnappings and violently fatal attacks Boko Haram continues to reign on the Northern part of our dear country, negotiation is also long overdue.

However, what is most distressing is President Jonathan’s refusal to negotiate.

Though I understand the deep disdain conjured up at the thought of negotiating with a violent group that clearly has no regard for human life, negotiation seems to me the only viable strategy that will safely bring our girls home to their families.

However it appears that once again President Jonathan’s inaction continues to hinder the swift return of our girls.

For the sake of our girls, who undoubtedly are already suffering unimaginable harm, and to safeguard them from any future trauma, I urge President Jonathan and his officials to enter negotiations with Boko Haram. Many leaders and activists such as the Nigerian Bar Association, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, the BOABAB Women’s Rights group in Northern Nigeria, the Nigerian Women’s Market Association and Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan have all called for Nigeria to negotiate with Boko Haram. And many others such as the Muslim Council of Britain, the Central Association of Nigerians and Senior Islamic clerics from Northern Nigeria have courageously stepped forward volunteering to mediate the dialogue and negotiations.

After the President’s refusal to exchange the Chibok girls for Boko Haram’s top ranking commanders, they came with another offer to exchange the girls they were holding hostage for the wives and children of some of their members.

Setting aside their absurd and impossible desire for a ‘pure’ Islamic state, it seems clear to me that Boko Haram has initiated the beginnings of a negotiation and compromise. And while I am in no way an expert on negotiations in times of war and violent conflict, what I do know is that negotiation and dialogue are necessary between opposing forces, especially in order for further violence and harm to be avoided.

Boko Haram’s video showing some of our abducted girls also confirms the idea that this extremist group wants their own members released and must therefore enter some form of dialogue and compromise to do so. I believe that negotiation is a most viable strategy and the Nigerian government’s continued refusal to find some sort of middle ground is a glaring signal of gendered and class based inequalities. It is a signal that the kidnapped Chibok girls do not matter enough; are not important enough.

But the people of Nigeria

Walmart cuts 750 jobs in change to its management structure, promotes associates

By The Canadian Press

TORONTO - Walmart Canada has confirmed it laid off hundreds of employees across the country earlier this month in a move to rework its management structure.

The Arkansas-based retailer said it eliminated 750 jobs — which is says represented less than one per cent of staff — after testing a new management structure in select stores.

As part of the changes, Walmart Canada (NYSE:WMT - News) says 1,300 associates were promoted to more senior roles and about 200 store man-

agers were added.

"The new management structure makes more of our associates available during peak shopping periods when our customers need us the most," Walmart spokesman Alex Roberton said in an emailed statement on Monday.

He added that the change "gives our associates greater access to their managers for their ongoing career development."

Walmart entered Canada

20 years ago with the acquisition of 122 Woolco stores and since then the company has more than tripled in size. In 2012, it announced an expansion plan that was valued at $750 million.

This year, the company says it aims to create 7,500 new jobs, mainly through temporary construction and trade positions.

Walmart had 389 stores and more than 95,000 associates as of March.

have bravely refused Jonathan and his office’s blatantly subtle edict and have taken their government to task by initiating the demand to “Bring Back Our Girls.” It is especially the women who have rallied, cried, shouted, sung, protested, prayed and demanded that their daughters, the kidnapped school girls matter and must be found. They are the one who insisted that the future leaders of Nigeria, girls, our girls, matter.

And it goes without saying it is unfathomable when one attempts to imagine the daily violence and trauma our innocent girls are suffering. I and so many others are gravely concerned that they are being subjected to daily sexual violence such as rape and prostitution, or that they may have been trafficked across borders to other countries for these purposes. Sexual and/ or gender based violence is an international phenomenon which primarily affects women and girls: where their voices, experiences and security in situations of violent conflict or war are often completely overlooked and dismissed as unimportant.

Which is once again why negotiation, no matter how difficult, no matter how gruelling, must be em-

ployed so that our girls do not have to face one more day of traumatic violence and abuse at the hands of these awful madmen. I am appealing to President Jonathan, his officials and the Nigerian military to please put their egos and inflated machismo aside and negotiate; for the safety and sake of the over 200 innocent girls whose only ‘crime’ was to be a girl and want a better life through education.

Education is a right, not a privilege and every child, boy and girl should feel that their government is protecting and providing security for them in exercising that right to education. For too many years now, these rights of especially the girl child have been blatantly violated in Nigeria. Entering negotiations with Boko Haram and finally bringing our girls back home will be a significant step in the right direction so that we can begin to rectify these horrific conditions of terrorism and poverty our children are forced to live with on a daily basis.

It has now been 45 days and counting since that fateful April night in Chibok, and the parents of these missing girls have endured the unfathomable: living without the smiles, hugs and love of their be-

loved girls. Mother’s day has come and gone with no girls being brought back; father’s day has come and gone with no girls being brought back; and most recently, most ironically, children’s day has come and gone with no girls being brought back home. Negotiation is a must because not one more day must pass before our girls are brought back home, alive. It is long past the time for our girls to be reunited with their mothers, fathers and loved ones to begin healing from the trauma of this horrific violence.

I truly believe the Chibok girls are divinely covered, and pray that Olodumare and our ancestors continue to circle our girls in protection, love and light to lead the way back home to us, alive. Ase. #BringBackOurGirls.

Dr. Adefarakan is a lecturer of Sociology and Social Inequalities at the University of Toronto’s Transitional Year Programme and has been involved in raising awareness and organizing one of the #BringBackOurGirls rallies in Toronto. She is Co-Chair and board member of Women at the Centre, a feminist organization committed to eradicating all forms of violence against women.

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE: w w w. n i g e r i a n c a n a d i a n n e w s . c a

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

21

REFLECTIONS ON RELATIONSHIPS

Are You Making Love or Just Having Sex? I

t is often said that “making love” is just a euphemism for “having sex.”

To be sure, these terms are frequently used interchangeably. Unfortunately, this common use (or misuse) can mask the important distinction between these two activities. Indeed, many people who have “good sex” mistake it for love only to find out that their apparent lover was not the person with whom they cared to spend their life.

This is not to proclaim the moral, or prudential, superiority of making love.

Indeed some would prefer to just have sex. “Sex alleviates tension,” said Woody Allen, “Love causes it.” Still, it is important that one gets what one bargains for.

Of course, making love (as distinct from being in love) necessarily involves having sex. But having sex, even great sex, is not necessarily making love—just as a nice cool beer is not a glass of wine. Truly, some may prefer the taste of the one to the other, and a beer may be the drink of choice on a given occasion (say, at a Knicks game); but it would indeed be unfortunate if one ordered a glass of Merlot in an intimate setting and was served a Budd.

So are you making love or just having sex? Are you getting what you really want? And if not, how can you get it?

The first of these three questions can be answered only if one knows the difference between having sex versus making love. But this, in turn, requires pinning down the meanings of each.

According to philosopher Alan Goldman, sexual desire is desire for contact with another person’s body and for the pleasure which such contact produces; sexual activity is activity which tends to fulfill such desire of the agent.

Goldman claims that sexual activity is not necessarily a means to any further end. For example, procreation is not the essential purpose of having sex; so you are not doing anything wrong (that is, misusing your body) if you are having sex without trying to get pregnant. Indeed, according to Goldman, there is no essential purpose to sex beyond fulfilling your desire for contact with an-

other person’s body.

I think we can take Goldman’s account of sexual activity as a working definition for developing and contrasting the idea of love-making. Inasmuch as sex is a desire for physical contact with someone else’s body, it is a mechanical activity. Rubbing, touching, caressing, kissing, sucking, biting, and, of course, intercourse, as fulfillments of a desire for physical contact, are all sexual activities in this sense. Here, a key word is “mechanical” because these activities are essentially ways of mechanically stimulating or arousing oneself. Per se, they are selfregarding. They seek selfgratification—fulfillment of a purely self-interested desire. As philosopher Immanuel Kant stated, “Sexual love makes of the loved person an Object of appetite; as soon as that appetite has been stilled, the person is cast aside as one casts away a lemon which has been sucked dry.” Here the idea that “sexual love” is self-regarding is clearly articulated by Kant. However, for Kant, it is in the transformation from selfregarding to other-regarding sexual activity that sex partners begin to see each other as persons rather than as mere objects or things.

Thus he says, “under the one condition, that as the one person is acquired by the other as a thing, that same person also equally acquires the other reciprocally, and thus regains and reestablishes the rational personality.”

Such reciprocal sexual activity is, for Kant, possible only in the context of monogamous marriage where each sex partner gives the other a contractual right to the other’s body. In this case, mutual desires for physical contact with one another’s bodies are gratified by each sex partner.

But while this mutual sexual agreement (whether inside or outside the context of marriage) may be a precursor to love-making, the latter takes more than mutual consent to let each other satisfy a sexual desire.

This is because such mutuality is still mechanical and focused on one’s own state of arousal as distinct from that of the other and therefore fails to capture the intimate character of love-making. So Kant’s idea of “sexual love,” even in its

mutual sense, is not truly that of love-making.

So what else besides mutuality is involved in lovemaking?

As distinct from mere sex, love-making dissolves the chasm between “you” and “me.” The resolution, however, is not “us” because “we” can still be divided. Instead, in love-making there is the mutual consciousness of unbounded unity without partition. “Love,” says psychologist Eric Fromm, is “in the experience of solidarity with our fellow creatures.” It is, explains Aristotle, “composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” In making love, your loins are mine, and mine yours. The titillations of mine are yours also, and conversely. My past, present, and future; my hopes, dreams, and expectation; and yours, coalesce as one-not two--persons. There is resignation of separateness to inclusion of the other. It is an ecstatic resonance that defies any breach in Oneness.

It takes two to Tango, and so too does it take (at least) two to make love. Unreciprocated love-making is unsuccessful love-making.

The flames of love-making are quick to die when one gives oneself, body and soul, only to be turned away. Where the other seeks only a body, wanting only sex, love-making is squandered even if it is not (at least at first) apparent to the one attempting to make love. It is a counterfeit if based on pretense because there is duality, not unity, and there is manipulation and objectification, not authentic, mutual respect.

As philosopher Martin Buber would express it, the intimacy of love-making is at the level of “I-Thou” as distinct from “I-It.” Thus,

you cease to be an object or thing and instead become “Thou.” I am bound up with you as Thou and you with me. Of course, as Buber reminds us, the unity of the “I-Thou” is not permanent and I must at some point begin to see you as an “It.” For example, in touching each other’s body, each does what he or she knows is most erotically felt by the other. Here there is a sort of delicate, momentary analysis and deliberate targeting of a body part. But instantaneously each becomes Thou again with co-mingling of not just body but soul. In making love, there is thus a virtually seamless reciprocity between I-It and I-Thou.

There is also powerful symbolism in love-making as depicted. Foreplay gradually builds to climax as in the unfolding of a life of two living as one. As such, making love is inspirational, for it signifies and embodies two mutually living as one.

Erich Fromm maintains that there is separateness as well as unity in love; “In the act of loving, I am one with all, yet, I am myself, a separate, unique, limited mortal human being.”

Here, Fromm is careful to stress that love (in all of its manifestations and not just in romantic love) is not bondage and subjection to another human being or denial of one’s autonomy.

However, the mutuality of love-making as depicted here guards again domination, for the goal is not to control the other but instead to lose oneself in the other as the other in oneself.

This has implications for the cognitive, perceptual, and symbolic aspects of love-making. When one merely has sex, one per-

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

of two into one. In contrast, compare the dis-unifying, objectifying nature of the four-letter language of just having sex.

Adapting a metaphor gleaned from the neo-Platonist philosopher Plotinus, the unity experienced in love-making may be compared to an axiomatic system. Each axiom is essential to the system and cannot be understood apart from it; but the system itself is over and above and distinct from any of its axioms. Similarly, the unity of love-making is not possible without the two lovers, but ceives the other as an object it is over and above and disof pleasure, as Kant de- tinct from them. So, in this scribes. In mere sexual ac- sense, there is still distincttivity one may seek to dom- ness in unity. But it is the inate, control, and even Oneness of love-making humiliate in order to elicit that itself admits of no disexual pleasure. Indeed, vision.

Accordingly, it is essenthere are as many ways to cognize and treat one’s sex tially this unifying aspect of partner as there are ways the activity of love-making the human animal can sat- that largely distinguishes it isfy a sexual desire. But, from mere sex. And here love-making is unifying is a central “how” of lovewhereas these cognitions making that follows from are relational and assume it: Surrender yourself to logically distinct beings. the other; sensually coFor example, masochistic alesce; and trust that the sex—thinking of oneself as other reciprocates. For, like lowly and servile relegates religious experience, loveoneself to something less making has an element of than and therefore distinct faith. If you attempt to have sex without such faith, then fromone’s sex partner.

In contrast, the language you will only have sex.

Transcend the self-interof love-making involves thoughts (and perceptions) ested desire for sexual satisthat unite rather than sepa- faction so that your sexual rate, divide, or alienate. partner’s self becomes yours, “Two hearts beating as and conversely, making the one” expresses a unifying goal of other-regarding sex metaphor, although it is moot.

So, do you have to be in not very sensual; while “I want to feel you all over” love in order to make love? can be very erotic but still To get a handle on an anobjectifying. “I want to get swer to this question you lost inside of you” can be might consider what I have both erotic and unifying. had to say in my blog on Unifying thoughts can be How good are you at makdeeply personal and can ing love? In any event, my replay in the mind’s eye considered judgment is moments of intimacy and that it can help to be in love. solidarity. They can reflect But this doesn’t mean that tenderness; an adoring (or one must be in love. For I adorable) look; or the in- suspect that many people stant when you knew you make love well before (if wanted to be together for ever) they are actually in an eternity. They can be in- love.

Given its powerful symeffable and unspoken; simply expressed; or set into bolism, building a loving poetic verse. “One half of sexual relationship, as here me is yours,” speaks Shake- described, may even pave speare’s Portia ( in his Mer- the way to a more loving chant of Venice), “and the relationship beyond the other half—my own half, I’d bedroom. Try it out. The call it—belongs to you too. taste of wine is what you If it’s mine, then it’s yours, may crave. But sometimes and so I’m all yours.” In one may also want a tall, its diverse nuanced forms, cold one. So it doesn’t mean from Shakespeare to the you can’t, when the mood is average Joe, the language right, just have sex. of love-making symbolizes, Source : and invites, the coalescence www.psychologytoday.com

22

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

OPINION

Leave the First Lady alone

By Greg Mbadiwe Although the functions of the wife of President or Prime Minister of any nation may not be provided in the constitution, it is recognised worldwide that the First Lady plays a stabilizing role in the nation. In some counties like America, the First Lady is not only a role model and fashion icon but a pacesetter whose conduct influences majority of citizens and brings them to full understanding of nationhood.

That was why Jackie John Kennedy was popular with Americans in the early 60s within the short period her husband was president.

In Nigeria, Mrs. Victoria Gowon re-defined the essence of First Ladyship.

But, it was Maryam Babangida who celebrated the office and brought it to national reckoning. She it was that encouraged governors’ wives to step out of their cocoons to offer leadership to womenfolk and, in the process, offered rural women the much needed fillip to actualize themselves. Although some people have expressed reservation over what they describe as the overbearing influence of these First Ladies on affairs of the state, it is necessary to appreciate their role as purely complementary to their spouses and not usurpation of governance.

It is for these reasons that I find unnecessary and totally distracting the unwarranted criticisms of Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, over her intervention in the insecurity in the North East.

For the avoidance of doubt, Dame Patience Jonathan, as a Nigerian, reserves the right to seek solution to the abduction of more than 200 girls from Government Secondary School, Chibok.

All the protests being organized by various groups seeking media attention are also geared towards the same goal. So why castigate a woman who is genuinely concerned about the welfare of children?

What the wife of the President did was simply to leverage on her position to seek a solution to a lingering crisis which attracted international attention and outrage. Ironically, those who have accused her of interference would have dubbed her an insensitive woman if she did not do

Mrs Patience Jonathan - First Lady of Nigeria anything. There is no record to show that those invited to parley were coerced to attend whatsoever.

As a mother, and indeed the mother of the nation, the First Lady felt genuinely concerned and employed her skills to ferret out information which otherwise would not have been given to security agencies.

Was it not as a result of her intervention that the WAEC authorities were able to release the names of some of the girls who registered for the just concluded examinations? Instead of applauding Dame Patience for her initiative, some have chosen to malign her over perceived inadequacies in procedure and protocol.

That is totally unfair.

As an Ambassador privileged to have travelled and interacted with governments at highest levels, I have come to know that wives of presidents are, indeed, visible in times of national crisis.

They become a rallying point and source of hope and succour to distraught citizens. They offer their shoulders for the citizenry to cry upon while at the same time calming the frayed nerves of presidents who crave peace and tranquillity to act wisely at such trying times. In essence, wives of Presidents are not dismissed as meddlesome and interfering women during national emergencies.

However, it is very unfortunate that this particular Nigerian First Lady has been caught in the web of vicious politics spearheaded by those who erroneously believe that being in the opposition is tantamount to hurling abusive words at the

President and his wife. It all started during the Rivers’ crisis when the opposition and pro-Amaechi groups tried to rope in Mrs Jonathan as the mastermind of an otherwise self-inflicted crisis.

Without proof and even in the face of denial by the First Lady, the accusers persisted. With the aid of an undiscerning section of the media, the First Lady was stereotyped as a meddlesome spouse purporting to supplant constituted authorities. That was in bad taste.

What also was in bad taste was the constant misinterpretation of the action of the First Lady.

Even before the abduction of the Chibok girls, Dame Patience had undertaken peace advocacy visits to the six-geopolitical zones of the country. She also organised a peace rally in Abuja where women in their thousands gathered and denounced the activities of agents of insecurity and insurrection in Nigeria. Women prayed and wept for Nigeria. The message was clear that women are victims of every war and conflict as they lose husbands and sons.

But, instead of Nigerians appreciating this maternal intervention from our First Lady, some condemned her and, in fact, went as far as accusing her of campaigning for her husband. Ordinarily, such insensitive comment of ingratitude would have dampened the spirit of an uncommitted mother.

But not Dame Patience Jonathan as she shrugged off such criticisms as a burden she would have to bear with the president in making Nigeria better. For those who rail her for supporting her

Boko Haram and its Leadership?

As Nigerians struggle with the Islamist terrorist, Boko Haram, one fact has been exposed; and that is the fact that journalism is in crisis these days due to corporatization, politicization, and secularization of journalism. Somehow, the journalists that act as the mouthpiece for the terrorists fail to ‘ask the right questions’ to the criminal gangs they represent! Even if they a paid by the sponsors/ supporters of the terror group, the general public expect some answers about the members, their values and supporters, plus money trails that govern the group’s activities.

I would, expect any credible journalist, to start by investigating the historical data of its leaders (Boko Haram).

It is vital to know personal statistics of the leader; his date of birth, his place of birth, his family history. Then list his parents, nationality (nationalities), sibling (siblings if any, uncles, aunts); social history; occupational history; and all that.

I believe that a good investigative reporter

or journalist should focus attention on shared values as Nigerians; and seek for answers to senseless killings of civilians by Boko Haram from its leadership. Also, to seek answer; why the group belies its oppressive views on women, girls and religious minorities? It will be great to do extensive journalistic reporting on identities, lifeline, affiliates, and nationalities of the members (other ranks).

Otherwise, the reporter/ journalist can be viewed as “guilty by association”.

Leadership can also be defined as ‘commitment to values and perseverance to protect those values’. I wonder which shared value(s) Boko Haram stands for?

husband for a second tenure, I wonder, if it would have been all right for the First Lady to be rooting for the rival APC! Be that as it may, we should learn to insulate and divorce politics from key national issues, especially when they touch on national security.

The current insecurity in the land does not wear the colours of PDP, APC, LP or APGA. It threatens all of us.

When the evil doers bombed Nyanya Motor Park, the bombs did not segregate on political or religious affilia-

tions. Those who died were all Nigerians. Those who were injured and continued to feel the pains are equally Nigerians. As Nigeria’s First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan also feels the pain. That is why she has not relented in praying for peace and pleading with the insurgents to lay down their lives.

In fact, it is heretical for some people to deride her for declaring that God exists, (no matter how she said it).

Without God, all the armies in the world would not solve our current security chal-

The Shared Values: 1. Goal - preserve and protect Nigeria Federation; but not to create an independent Islamic State by use of violence and terror 2. Nigeria as a Democracy - to respect the constitution of Nigeria, and accept electoral results which is accepted as free and fair by International Community.

3. Human Rights - re-

spect for circular ethics that drives on basic human values.

4. Religious Freedom through peace, respect, tolerance and dialogue.

5. Education for all (boys and girls). But for Niger, Cameroon and Chad to stop playing geopolitical game with Nigeria, by allowing the Islamist terrorists to set up bases on their soil.

I hope that the journalists should get into the hard stuff, and stop going soft and giving the terrorist gangsters an undeserving spotlight.

Don’t forget that the leader of Boko Haram believes that “Western Education Is a Sin” – yet, poses with AK-47 weapon! I wonder where he learnt how to strip and assemble the weapon if it jams? His actions contradict clauses in the Shariah law that he vows to preserve and protect. The group has lived up to its reputation as a criminal gang, preying on human trafficking, and must be brought to justice.

They are evil and devil worshippers.

By Akadu Toronto, Ontario. lenges. With all their might, America relies on God to win her many battles.

Israel is another nation which total reliance on God has saved it from enemies within its borders. It was, indeed, an act of faith for Dame Patience Jonathan to invoke the name of God to actualize her maternal intervention in the abduction of Chibok Girls. Enough of these hasslings against a concerned mother!

Ambassador Mbadiwe, lawyer and economist, writes from Lagos.

continued from p(8) Breast sucking good for you? the the woman whose breast is being sucked or the person doing the sucking.

However, what has been scientifically proven is the fact that breast sucking when properly performed is of immense pleasure to

the woman and may sometime on its own lead to orgasm or when combined with some other forms of sexual stimulation will help a woman to achieve orgasm quicker. Again, neither has any research shown that breast sucking can give a

woman cancer.

So ladies, please relax and allow your guys do the job for you. if you are not enjoying the way he is doing it, tell him. I can assure you, it’s a win-win situation.

Vanguard

DENTIST - SEE PAGE 24 HEALTHY TEETH & GUM PREVENT INFECTIONS

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

ONE WEEK REVIVAL SERVICES June 15, 2014 at 10:00 am June 16 - 21, 2014 at 7:00 pm 1327 MARTIN GROVE ROAD ETOBICOKE, ON M9W 4S5 Pastor (Dr.) Gabriel Olutola President, The Apostolic Church, Nigeria

Host: Pastor Edward Soetan 647-770-5890 • 647-863-5736

THE LORD IS NOT SLACK CONCERNING HIS PROMISE - 2 PETER 3:9

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

23

24

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

BOX 12514, ETOBICOKE, ONT M9R 4C7

Please join us at these Holy Spirit-filled nights of prayer. It's going to be a time of earth-quaking, heaven-rending, result-oriented spiritual warfare, and deliverance season.

Date: Time: Venue: Contact: Emphasis:

June 6th, 13th, 20th, and 27th 11:30 PM – 4:00 AM (each Friday Night) 2240 Kipling Avenue, Etobicoke, ON M9W 4L4 416-312-1218 • 647-930-4023 • 416-900-3945 SHOWERS OF BLESSING

Ministering: The Rev. Israel Chukwunedum OBIEJE The Rev. John ‘Yemi ADEDAPO God is still in the miracle and deliverance business. He has a package designed specifically for you. Come, and you will be blessed.

Address: 2240 Kipling Avenue, Etobicoke, ONT M9W 4L4 “With joy you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation!” Isaiah 12:3 (NLT)

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

25

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING Affordable Quality Service Always

Shipping Cars, Trucks, Auto Parts, Clothing, Barrels, Building Materials, Electricals Appliances to most African Countries.

Freight drop off: 270 Rexdale Blvd, Unit D, Toronto, Ontario M9W 1R2 Warehouse is behind the Self Storage Email: uls@unitedicons.com

Tel: 416-840-4551 www.uls.unitedicons.com Call Sam at 905-783-6869 or Eunice at 416-822-8908 for your quotes

Family & Cosmetic Dentistry

Dr. Jide Odusanya Evening & Saturday Appointments Available

• Bonding & White Fillings • Gum Treatment • Root Canals • Crown & Bridges • Dentures • And many more

All Dental Plan Accepted Payment Plans can be arranged

Call or visit us

416-736-9119 1280 Finch Ave. West, Suite 418 Toronto, Ont. M3J 3K6 VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

26

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Contact us today for a free estimate Call us at 416-667-0303 or email csr@firstchoiceshipping.ca

S H I P P I N G

490 Norfinch Drive, North York, ON Canada M3N 1Y4

www.firstchoiceshipping.ca

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING SERVICES

FR EE STOR AGE

O U R 2 0 , 0 0 0 S Q F T FAC I L I T Y

- Ship all size containers FTL | LTL - Air Freight - Door to Door or Port to Port

CONTAINER DOCK RENTAL Want to rent our dock for a day?

Call US, we will be glad to help!

RECEIVE

STORAGE SERVICES

$50

$1000

For every referral receive a $50 Dollars American Express Gift Card

Receive up to $1000 back when shipping containers

DOLLARS

Need some extra space while you setup you new office?

Call us we have plenty of space available for your needs

RECEIVE

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

DOLLARS

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

P O L I T I C A L LY S P E A K I N G WITH MICHAEL COTEAU Countries With Most Billionaires p.12

Are You Making Love Or Just Having Sex p.21

Itsekiri's Picnic p.33 World Cup Schedule p.45

Eat Your Way To Glowing Skin p.30

Nigerian Canadian News Interviewer: Who is Michael Coteau?

Michael Coteau: I am a family man. I’m married, with two beautiful daughters. I grew up here in Don Mills went to Don Mills Middle-School and then on to Victoria Park secondary school. Then I finished over at Leaside High School on Bayview and Eglington. I worked for an adult literacy organization and I was also the Executive Director of another literacy organization. My whole life I have been interested in politics. I was school board trustee for eight-years, then MPP. Everything I’ve done is about helping people, everything I’ve been involved with since university is about helping people. So I’m the type of person continued on p(29)

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

27

28

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

AUG. 4, 2013 (10AM) VENUE

COVENANT CHAPEL TORONTO

66 Toro Road, Toronto, ON M3J 2A8 For Information Contact: 416 633 3288 OR admin@covenantchapel.ca

>>York Gate Mall >>Jane Street >> Shepherd Ave W >>Downsview Dells Park

www.covenantchapel.ca Program Organised By:

Covenant Chapel Toronto

66 Toro Road Toronto On M3J 2A8 For information contact: 416 633 3288 OR admin@covenantchapel.ca | www.covenantchapel.ca

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

29

POLITICALLY SPEAKING WITH MICHAEL COTEAU continued from p(27) who likes to see productive things happen every day and that’s what inspires me. I like working for my community.

That sums me up really; I’m a family man, someone who likes to find solutions to help people.

NCNC: You touched on it, but I want you to be more precise, tell us what led you into politics?

MC: I was about 16 years old and at this point I didn’t know much about politics but I had a little interest. I remember there was a hole in the fence around a swimming pool at the back of our building complex. There was some ice there and it was about early spring and

the kids were playing on it and the ice wasn’t very secure. I told the landlords they should fix it and couple days went by and they didn’t do anything so I told the management and they didn’t do anything either. About a week later I called the Member of Parliament, the MPP, and it was fixed within an hour. It struck me that this is a way to get things done.

Politicians can pick up the phone and make it happen, so that’s what kinda led me in this direction for wanting to seek public office.

NCNC: You have completed a full term in the Don Valley East Riding, why should you be re-elected?

MC: When you look at my pub-

lic record as a school board trustee I served eight years, catering to 30-plus schools in our community. While I was there I did a complete forensic audit of our school board to find out how much it was costing us to rent spaces. I brought forward a motion that was reflective of the true cost and we lowered the fees for public space by 15-percent, which opens it up for community groups, seniors, youth based organizations, so there is a substantial decrease in the cost to use those facilities. When it came to nutritional policies, I led the task force on student nutrition looking at different issues such as student hunger and the link between academic success and nutrition. We brought in experts and came up with a

series of recommendations that I think have drastically improved nutrition education and food accessibility in our schools. With regards to fiscal responsibility, when we were cutting local schools budget by 10-percent, I made it reflect in trustees expense accounts.

I asked the trustees if we are going to make those types of cuts, let’s make the cuts to our own expense accounts until we can restore the 10-percent in order to show that we would be affected in the same way. At Queen’s Park I was appointed parliamentary assistant to Micheal Chan, who was the minister responsible for tourism, culture and sports.

About a year and a half ago I got the citizenship and immigration portfolio. Ev-

erywhere I go I seem to be able to work well with other people in group environments. I think I have a really good ability to work with my colleagues at Queen’s park, not only the Liberals, but the Conservatives and the NDP to find solutions.

I believe that coupled with my knowledge base and experience in education, adult literacy and growing up in the community makes me an excellent candidate to represent this community.

NCNC: You should know this community since you have served here just less than 12 years and you’ve lived here basically all your life. Can you identify what is the major issue within this riding?

MC: The biggest issue I think is infrastructure. They were built in the 1960s. It is coming to a place where we will have to start looking at redevelopment of these buildings and infrastructures.

The next thing is jobs and the economy. We have a lot of folks out there in the community who are looking for jobs. The interesting thing about our community is that 61- percent are immigrants and our unemployment is, I believe, a percentage point about the provincial average, but our education level is higher than the provincial average. For me it is about finding the reasons these trends are happening because they contradict each other. We have six employment agencies in the community and some of them have a success rate of up to 85- percent so I think it is important for me to tap into these organizations and work with them and I have been doing this for about two to three years now to get people back to work.

NCNC: We know you served just over a year as Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. We see immigration is fast emerging as a hot ticket in this election with Tim Hudak saying more needs to be done to help immigrants.

What do you think needs to be done?

MC: I think it’s interesting that Tim Hudak has never once in my 10 years as minister addressed an issue that actually affects immigrants directly. The party that say they are concerned have never once addressed the issue. In my view it is a political opportunity for them.

The Liberals were the one to

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

introduce an immigration act. I got to introduce, the first of its kind, the Ontario Immigration Act, which will give Ontario more control of its immigration. If you look around in our party you will find many members who are advocates for strong immigration policies that work to strengthen Ontario.

There is a strong sense on our side that we need to get this right, because it is beneficial for our community for Ontario to have immigrants that have strong educational background. Having said that we also know it is not just about the economy, it’s about continuing to share and build those values that make us strong as Ontarians. Multi-culturalism and diversity are the strengths of Ontario.

NCNC: I want you to help me to frame this election. What do you think this election is about? What should it be about?

MC: Tim Hudak would say it is about jobs and the economy.

I think that is pretty naïve.

Obviously those are very important issues but what kind of health care system do you want to continue to have here in Ontario? What kind of education system?

These two items alone occupy about 2/3 of our budget, of all of our taxes. What type of Ontario are we continuing to build? Is it one where we all work together or is it Tim Hudak’s Ontario where you are left on your own and it’s every person for themselves. An Ontario where user fees are put in place, corporations pay lower taxes, even though Ontario already has the lowest taxes for corporate taxes in the region, where are we going? Then you have the NDP approach, they really don’t have a plan. In the last election they didn’t even have a policy on education. Not even one piece of information on the second most expensive ministry in the government. This time around they have released an 11 page document that goes into light details on what they would do, so I think they are unpredictable. With Premiere Wynne and the Liberal party here in the province you will have stability, a strong knowledge base of expertise and you are going to have a group of people that have navigated us out of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression and brought Ontario to a place continued on p(39)

30

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

WHAT NEVER TO DO WHEN YOUR RELATIONSHIP ENDS LOVE & SEX

5. Wallow in sadness For heaven’s sake, cheer up!

Think of it as good riddance. If the individual wanted to stay they would have. Yes, it’s OK to cry and express your feelings in order to heal but don’t let it get the best of you. Try activities that will force you to focus your attention elsewhere.

BEING in a relationship is a great experience. You feel happy, you are ecstatic, you glow, and you feel valuable and cherished. You and your partner look beyond the struggles of life, believe your love is eternal, and that you are free from problems. But as life progresses, the magical feelings of love ebb and reality takes over. You start to lose respect and fail to understand each other and the relationship ends.

It is often said that love is blind and it makes us into fools at times.

You may have figuratively given your heart and soul to a man or woman who didn’t appreciate you and in your attempts not to lose the love you once had you do some stupid stuff. Indeed, some stupidity is expected when you lose your love, but below are some silly things you should never do when your marriage or long-term relationship ends.

1. Beg Don’t do it, ever. This is one of the greatest signs of weakness and vulnerability. You will hate yourself for it in the end. He or she may or may not return but begging won’t change why they left in the first place.

2. Call/visit/e-mail/text Your former mate and their new partner will sit and laugh at your

6. Keep remnants If the relationship was long-term, chances are you have a wealth of memories in the form of pictures, gifts, clothes, jewellery and the list goes on. But it’s now time to pack them up and put them far away from sight. Out of sight, out of mind. It will help with the healing process. Seeing him or her on your wall — whether the real one or the one on Facebook — will stir up grief, anger and resentment and that’s not healthy. Purge yourself of the person. desperation. Calling, e-mailing and texting are signs that you are thinking of someone and possibly miss them. Though it may be true, you don’t have to live out your feelings, especially when the other individual thinks nothing of you. Visiting is an indication that you haven’t got over the individual. It also scores 100 points on the desperation scale.

3. Rebound Getting over an ex doesn’t require getting under another person. Give yourself time to heal, reflect and rid yourself of the hurt or pain you may feel. Broken hearts are real. Yours is broken, fix it through venting, counselling or talking to a trusted friend. Don’t go breaking other’s hearts in a bid to relieve yourself.

4. Settle for less Setting standards are important and so is moving on. However, ensure that you don’t accept someone because you want to make your ex see that you have moved on. Ensure that who you have moved on with is not less than you deserve but treats you with respect and understands your needs.

7. Be a loner Go out, embrace your social side. You are now single, free and have fewer responsibilities. Enjoy it while it lasts. Learn a new craft, try a new sport, hang with a few friends, go clubbing, go to church, and enjoy yourself. If you’re seeking revenge, that’s the best way. Let them see you being happy alone. www.jamaicaobserver.com

EAT YOUR WAY TO GLOWING SKIN Article By : Jessica Woodruff

Today’s world is all about holistic health and using natural remedies to combat beauty problems that are kind on the pocket.

Which is why it makes sense to start at the source - your diet - and make sure you eat foods that will prevent acne and nurture your skin.

Here are a few ingredients to stock up on for perfect skin:

and helps form red blood cells which improves blood circulation and in turn gives you a youthful complexion. It also contains carotenoids which are nature’s own anti-wrinkle and anti-acne remedy.

Coconut oil

Dark chocolate

iron, folate, chlorophyll, Vitamin E, magnesium, Vitamin A, fibre, plant protein, and Vitamin C. Vitamins C, E, and A are anti-oxidants which are especially great for repairing existing damage and helping prevent any more damage.

Seeds

Red bell peppers

One bell pepper contains more than 100 percent of your required daily vitamin C intake. It is also rich in dietary fibre and vitamin B6 which assists in normal nerve cell communication

you avoid the milk and added sugars which are generally found in a normal chocolate bar.

Rich in anti-oxidants, fatty acids and flavonoids, a little bit of dark chocolate eaten regularly will make your skin glow. It also helps reduces roughness on your skin and protects against sun damage.

Due to the high cocoa content in dark chocolate it relaxes the arteries which will increase blood circulation, and of course, more blood circulation equals more oxygen for a healthier complexion.

Make sure you buy chocolate that is at least 80 percent cacao and make sure

Its lauric acid compound is a powerful antibacterial and antiviral agent. Coconut oil also keeps your skin soft and hydrated for a wrinkle-free complexion thanks to its essential fatty acids and Vitamin E content.

Spinach

This is a great source of

seeds helps to lower stress levels which can prevent the skin from aging.

Flax, chia and hemp seeds are perfect for fighting wrinkles and acne as they are rich in healthy Omega 3 fatty acids and are rich in protein.

Celery

Papaya

Another food low in calories, it is rich in antioxidants which reduce inflammation and acne. It also contains Vitamin C which protects against sun damage.

Carrots

A wide variety of seeds have great qualities for your skin especially chia, hemp, sunflower, pumpkin and flax seeds.

Pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds are equally rich in selenium, Vitamin E, magnesium and protein.

Selenium and protein are good for preventing wrinkles by ensuring certain anti-oxidants are able to work properly, whilst Vitamin E works an important anti-inflammatory agent, as well as an anti-oxidant.

Magnesium found in these

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

This is another great food for the production of good circulation as well as reducing high blood pressure. By reducing your high blood pressure, your stress levels decrease which can be the cause of bad skin.

Celery is also great for dehydration which can cause dry, flaky skin, wrinkles or breakouts.

Not only for seeing in the dark, carrots are also good for your skin. Rich in Vitamin A they can help prevent the overproduction of cells in the outer layer of the skin and clear up acne breakouts. Acne occurs when excess sebum combines with dead cells which clog the pores.

Including these continued on p(35)

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

31

PROFILE

Optimera

CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF MAHATMA GANDHI

Nerium International recently launched its latest anti-aging product – Optimera in Canada. This amazing treatment is both for men and women of all skin tones that reverses the signs of aging. This anti-aging product, that meets international regulatory requirements, has been a huge success in sales in the US market.

This is an exciting business opportunity for those who want to get a dream income. This company gives iPads and Lexus cars to brand partners who qualify.

Start your own business with the fastest growing anti-aging care company that has been working for several years on developing a cutting-edge anti-aging product. For more information on how to be a brand partner or a customer, please get in touch.

http://vickyy.nerium.com • ogalosgirl@hotmail.com • 647-701-1386

Toll Free: 1(877)881-2332 Ext. 702 24/7 Support

“Need help Pronto?

Call Axanto, for all your IT Services & Solutions!”

We offer comprehensive IT Professional Services to small, medium and large Businesses. We provide Hardware Infrastructure, Application Software Development and Cloud Solutions for our clients.

We help our clients identify, Acquire, Build and Run Systems. We provide hands-on SAN/NAS Storage, Internship and Project Management Training. With our main location in Mississauga we cater for clients in the GTA.

Telephone: (905) 564-3100 Location: 1515 Britannia Rd E. Suite 215 Mississauga, ON. L4W 4K1

Web and Email:

www.axantogroup.com info@axantogroup.com

NCNC staff

C

onsidered as the father of India, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2 1869 in Porbandar, India. He went to school in Rajkot where his father was the adviser to the local ruler. He was the last child of his father (Karamchand Gandhi) and his father’s fourth wife (Putlibai) and he married at the age of 13 in an arranged marriage to Kasturba who gave birth to four sons. In 1888, Gandhi set sail to England to pursue a degree in law, leaving behind his son Harilal and his wife. The elders objected his trip but his mother made him promise to stay away from women, wine and meat during his stay in England, being a devout Hindu.

After his study in England, Gandhi left for South Africa as an expatriate lawyer when he was 24 years old and spent 21 years in South Africa where he gained political views, ideas and leadership skills till he returned to India in 1914. The political views he gained was due to what he experienced in South Africa from discrimination of all colored people and social injustices. In one instance he was beaten by a driver in a bus for not giving room for a European passenger. These injustices changed his views in life and he even stayed longer in South Africa to assist fellow Indians oppose a bill denying them a right to vote.

Due to the military strength of the British army there, he developed an idea of non-violent resistance to wrongs and injustices done.

With his political interests, Gandhi returned to India in 1914 and by 1920 he was a dominant figure in politics when he became leader of the Indian National Congress. He was given the name Mahatma which means great soul upon his return to India. He pushed for independence through non-violent ways and in 1922 he was jailed for conspiracy and released after 2 years. He continued with peaceful resistance and non-violent campaigns till 1931 where here he attended the London Round Table Conference on Indian Constitutional Reform. His non-violent ways and non-cooperation included a 21 day fast and marches in protest to tax laws imposed by the British government. He later on resigned in 1932 from party membership for 2 years but still continued campaigning for Indian self-rule (swaraj). These mass protests in India led to the British announcement that they would free India at the end of World War II. In 1942, Gandhi led another protest dubbed “Quit India” campaign and was jailed till 1944 but huge disagreements between Hindus and Muslims led to massive violence. In 1947, the British left India and on August 15 1947, Great Britain gave India independence. During this time, Gandhi went on a fast since the violence had led to a partition of India and Pakistan as per the plan that had been made by the British before they left India due to the Hindu-Muslim conflict.

Gandhi was later on assassinated by a Hindu fanatic, Nathuram Godse, who shot three bullets at him at close range. At this point he had survived five other assassination attempts, but this time he breathed his last and died at 5:17pm on 30th January 1948. Many people agreed with his way of life of simple living, non-violence protests and fasting but some disagreed with his experiments such as a spiritual experiment he did to test himself as a brahma Chari, where he shared his bed with several young women and girls after vowing to abstain from sexual relations in 1906. However he influenced great leaders around the world as a beacon of hope such as Martin Luther King Jr. and former president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela.

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Ni g e r i a n

C a n a d i a n

N e w s

32

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

TORONTO CHAPTER

The Itsekiri Association of Canada, Toronto Chapter, Cordially Invites You to its Annual Picnic

Date: July 19th, 2014 Venue: West Deane Park, 400 Martingroove Rd, Toronto M9B 4M1 Time: 12pm- 6pm For further information,contact the:

President @ Secretary @ PRO @ Itsekiri Canada @

647-981-2796 905-409-1575 905-391-2266 647-692-0745

Email: Info@itsekiricanada.com or visit: http://facebook.com/itsekiri.canada Looking forward to seeing you at the picnic

One People!

One Language!!

Looking forward to seeing you at the picnic

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

One Heritage!!!

33

34

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

THE RETURN OF IRO AND BUBA Chinenye Ugonna

T

he latest fashion craze among young Nigerian women is the iro and buba, a style trend that previously they would rather not be caught dead in.

The indigenous Nigerian attire is now a must-wear for every occasion; from weddings to the red carpet.

“It can be worn for almost occasion; like for church, weddings, casual outings and almost anywhere. It is also comfortable for our weather,” said Ada Ezike, a fashion aficionado.

The iro and buba, pronounced “ee-ro and boo-bah,” has been part of the West African culture for a very long time. It was mostly worn by the Yoruba people of South West Nigeria but has since spread far into other ethnic groups.

In recent times, the iro and buba, which was fashionable in the sixties and seventies, has come to be viewed as everyday clothe “our mom” would wear and not a style for a young nubile woman.

Children, however, were not left off the hook as some were forced into the very “mature” style and had to make reluctant appearances in their uncomfortable and constraining iro or wrapper at church and birthday parties.

However, there has been periods in the eighties, nineties, noughties

and now when it has reappeared on the high fashion scene with slight little tweaks here and there to suit the taste of the day.

In the late nineties, early noughties, the “oleku” – where the iro ends anywhere above the

Usually, the two-piece attire is made out of plain cotton, African print (or Ankara), lace, as well as traditional woven material (asooke). But in its latest iteration, Nigerian designers have continued to experiment with various fab-

knees or mid-calves – was all the rage. It was a reincarnation of the style as it was worn in the sixties, the era of the mini skirt.

These days, however, young women are proud to don the traditional long wrapper which stops around the ankles. Still, some creative alterations have been made to give it a modern look.

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

rics. The current trend has seen iro and buba made out of silk, chiffon and satin.

“I think designers are rushing into it right now because it’s making money. Our generation, we just like going with the trend and anything that is making money, they just hop on to it,” said Titi Belo, a fashion designer and CEO of Vmperfect Verbalista.

Traditionally, the iro is wrapped around the waist and the top of one end bunched up and tucked under folds of the wrapper on one side of the waist. Sometimes, both ends are tied at the back or the side of the wearer. In its continued stylish reincarnation, the 2014 iro is worn as a tulip style wrap, tied in front or at the side.

The trendy attire can be acquired anywhere; from off the runway to a street tailor’s shop, with a ready-made set going for as much as N10,000.

“Although I feel people make money off (customers) when they know that something is in vogue, it’s however funny how people who sell the materials in the market haven’t increased the price of fabrics; a yard of silk is N300.

Meanwhile, I know designers who sell the readymade ones for about N8, 000 to N10, 000 which I find ridiculous and people are actually buying these things,” said Ms. Ezike.

Source: www.premiumtimesng.com

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

35

B.C. Supreme Court grants injunction Nigerian teen student jumps to death in allowing doctors to prescribe heroin America after she’s caught cheating to select addicts THE B.C. SUPREME Court has granted an injunction that lets doctors give prescription heroin to select patients in Vancouver.

According to a 34-page decision, Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson found that risks faced by the opiate addicts acting as plaintiffs in the case would be reduced if doctors were allowed to administer diacetylmorphine (prescription heroin).

“I accept that the potential harms facing the personal plaintiffs, and those on whose behalf they apply, are grave and that an award of damages will be of little, if any, assistance to them,” Hinkson wrote.

“As such, those harms must weigh heavily in the balance, particularly given that the exemption requested by the applicants does not cause any material harm to the government pending the ultimate resolution of this matter at trial.”

Vancouver doctors previously secured the necessary permissions under the federal Special Access Programme (SAP) to prescribe heroin to a specific group of patients who had repeatedly failed with other available treatments for opiate addiction. But in October 2013, Health Minister Rona Ambrose amended regulations to close what she described as a “loophole”, barring clinicians from administering drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and ecstasy (MDMA).

The case entered the courts on March 25, 2014, when Providence Health Care and five long-time opiate users appeared in B.C. Supreme Court in an effort to secure diacetylmorphine as a legal means of managing addiction. I t concerns past and present participants in the Study to Assess Longer-term Opioid Medication Effectiveness ( SALOME ), which remains underway at Providence Crosstown Clinic in the Downtown Eastside.

The plaintiffs mounted a constitutional challenge, arguing that participants’ right to access

evidence-based treatment under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms had been impeded. They are represented by Joe Arvay , who was instrumental in Insite’s 2011 victory in the Supreme Court of Canada, and lawyers with Pivot Legal Society.

According to Hinkson’s May 29 decision, the court has granted an interlocutory injunction that provides for the approval of “all outstanding plaintiff requests and future SALOME requests for access to diacetylmorphine”. It’s noted that to be eligible, patients must have a record of failing to respond to other available treatments for opiate addiction (such as methadone), and that they must be represented by a physician who has made a SAP application on their behalf.

In a telephone interview, Pivot’s Adrienne Smith described the court’s decision as “a victory for evidence-based medicine”.

“It gives hope to other heroin users who may benefit from this important medication,” she said.

However, Smith noted that while an interlocutory injunction has been granted, the judge denied Providence’s request for a mandatory injunction that would have directed regulators to take steps necessary to ensure there is a supply of diacetylmorphine adequate to meet patients’ needs. She said this leaves the matter susceptible to Health Canada “proceeding in good faith”.

With an injunction secured, Smith continued, the next step is to see Providence’s constitutional challenge enter the courts.

“We’re anticipating that could take a year, which is disappointing,” she said. “The good news is that this decision will keep our clients safe during that year. I’m hopeful and our clients are hopeful.”

In a March 2014 telephone interview, David Byres , vice-president of acute clinical programs at Providence, explained

that a study similar to SALOME called NAOMI (North American Opiate Medication Initiative), conducted from 2005 to 2008, found that in certain cases, heroin-assisted therapy proved more effective than methadone in improving the wellbeing of long-time opiate addicts. Those results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009 and are supported by similar academic findings in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

“The NAOMI trial provided definitive evidence that diacetylmorphine is an effective treatment,” he said.

Affidavits drafted by the five opiate users participating in the case emphasize the struggles involved in maintaining the steady supply of drugs required by heavy addictions. The documents explain how heroin administered on a prescribed basis alleviates the harm users inflict on themselves and society.

“I spent my money on food and vitamins rather than drugs, and I became healthier,” Charles English wrote. “While on the study, I exercised regularly and took care of myself. I did not commit any crime to support my drug habit. I took showers, wore clean clothes, and was a functional member of society.”

The Straight has repeatedly attempted to learn how the federal government arrived at its position against the administration of diacetylmorphine, which contradicts a growing body of scientific evidence.

Despite Health Minister Rona Ambrose personally assuring the Straight that that information would be supplied, Health Canada has not provided anything specific in the way of academic studies or the opinions of experts.

In response to the court’s May 29 decision, Health Canada sent an email to media in which it’s stated the federal government is considering its option.

“We will continue to support drug treatment

A bright Nigerian girl, a student at a top American city high school, has jumped to her death after she was humiliated in front of her classmates for cheating on a test.

Omotayo Adeoye, 17, of The Bronx, was so ashamed that she jumped to her death in the Hudson River Thursday, according to The New York Post.

Omotayo wrote a suicide note right on her German-language exam that read, “I just want to go away forever on the bottom of the river,” law-enforcement sources said.

Divers were still searching Friday night for the biology whiz in the waters off Washington Heights, where she jumped in Thursday afternoon.

The promising senior was caught peeking at her cellphone during the German test at the Harlem HS for Math, Science and Engineering, which is affiliated with the City College of New York.

Her teacher, Eva Malikova, “was walking around the room and saw [Adeoye] on her phone,” a male classmate said.

“She snatched it away from her and started screaming at her, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t be cheat-

ing! You guys shouldn’t be cheating! You guys are lying to yourselves!’ ” Adeoye burst into tears, sobbing, “I’m sorry! I’m sorry!”

“Oh, you are not really sorry,” Malikova allegedly snapped back. “That’s not a sincere apology!”

Law-enforcement sources confirmed the classroom exchange.

At around 2:15 p.m., a teary-eyed Adeoye scrawled her desperate note on the test, then asked to use the bathroom.

She never returned — instead walking from the West 140th Street school to the Hudson River’s edge at West 165th Street.

Shocked fishermen watched helplessly as she placed her ID on a rock, then jumped in the water.

Adeoye — whose father told cops she can’t swim — ignored their cries to go ashore, the witnesses told cops.

She appeared to be forcing herself down, they said.

Her head bobbed briefly above the surface before she was completely submerged.

The first 911 call came in at 3:35 p.m., nearly an hour before school officials alerted cops to her disappearance at

4:20 p.m.

A Department of Education spokeswoman said, “We are conducting an investigation into this tragic incident, and we are taking immediate action.”

She said the DOE would do more to address mental-health issues with students.

Malikova could not be reached for comment, but several students said they heard her screaming in anguish at the school this morning.

She did not teach any classes.

If it is confirmed that Adeoye killed herself, it would bring the total number of public-school student suicides to 14 so far this year, the DOE said.

There were 14 suicides in the 2012-13 school year.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with her family and her school community,” said Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña. “This must be a call to action.”

Photo, courtesy of The New York Post, shows late 17-year-old Omotayo Adeoye and the school she attended, The High School for Math, Science and Engineering, New York, USA. Source News Express

continued from p(30) Eat your way to glowing skin

foods in your daily diet will be highly beneficial to your skin, not to mention your overall health!

Avoid junk foods, excess

sugar, transfats (found in artificial and processed food) and refined carbohydrates (found in most breads, cookies,

cakes, pies, etc) to ensure the health of your skin.

and recovery programs that work to get Canadians off drugs in a safe way,” the email reads.

Acting on behalf of Health Canada, the Attorney General now has the option of appealing

the judge’s decision.

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Source:iafrica.com

Source : www.straight.com

36

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

US actor Michael Jace accused of murdering his wife Washington: Renowned US actor Michael Jace has been charged with homicide after his wife was found dead with bullet wounds in a Los Angeles house.

Police found April Jace, 40, shot dead at the couple’s house in Hyde Park. Officers had responded to reports of a “domestic incident” after neighbours heard gunfire, Sky News reported.

Michael Jace is perhaps best known for his role as a police officer in “The Shield” and for starring opposite Russell Crowe in the film “State Of Play”. He has also had roles in the television series “Southland” and the film “Forrest Gump.” continued from p(1) Politically Speaking Maya Angelou

held only briefly, in San Francisco.

In 1944, a 16-year-old Angelou gave birth to a son, Guy (a short-lived high school relationship had led to the pregnancy), thereafter working a number of jobs to support herself and her child. In 1952, the future literary icon wed Anastasios Angelopulos, a Greek sailor from whom she took her professional name—a blend of her childhood nickname, “Maya,” and a shortened version of his surname.

In the mid-1950s, Angelou’s career as a performer began to take off. She landed a role in a touring production of Porgy and Bess, later appearing in the off-Broadway production Calypso Heat Wave (1957) and releasing her first album, Miss Calypso (1957).

A member of the Harlem Writers Guild and a civil rights activist, Angelou organized and starred in the musical revue Cabaret for Freedom as a benefit for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, also serving as the SCLC’s northern coordinator.

In 1961, Angelou appeared in an off-Broadway production of Jean Genet’s The Blacks with James Earl Jones, Lou Gossett Jr. and Cicely Tyson. While the play earned strong reviews, Angelou moved on to other pursuits, spending much of the 1960s abroad; she first lived in Egypt and then in Ghana, working as an editor and a freelance

writer. Angelou also held a position at the University of Ghana for a time.

After returning to the United States, Angelou was urged by friend and fellow writer James Baldwin to write about her life experiences. Her efforts resulted in the enormously successful 1969 memoir about her childhood and young adult years, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, which made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an AfricanAmerican woman. The poignant work also made Angelou an international star.

Since publishing Caged Bird, Angelou has continued to break new ground—not just artistically, but educationally and socially. She wrote the drama Georgia, Georgia in 1972—becoming the first African-American woman to have her screenplay produced—and went on to earn a Tony Award nomination for her role in the play Look Away (1973) and an Emmy Award nomination for her work on the television miniseries Roots (1977), among other honors.

Angelou has written several autobiographies throughout her career, including All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986) and A Song Flung Up to Heaven (2002), but 1969’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings continues to be regarded as her most popular autobiographical

work. She has also published several collections of poetry, including Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water ‘Fore I Die (1971), which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

One of Angelou’s most famous works is the poem “On the Pulse of Morning,” which she wrote especially for and recited at President Bill Clinton’s inaugural ceremony in January 1993—marking the first inaugural recitation since 1961, when Robert Frost delivered his poem “The Gift Outright” at President John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. Angelou went on to win a Grammy Award (best spoken word album) for the audio version of the poem.

In 1995, Angelou was lauded for remaining on The New York Times’ paperback nonfiction bestseller list for two years— the longest-running record in the chart’s history.

Seeking new creative challenges, Angelou made her directorial debut in 1998 with Down in the Delta, starring Alfre Woodard. She has also written a number of inspirational works, from the essay collection Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now (1994) to her advice for young women in Letter to My Daughter (2008). Interested in health, Angelou has even published cookbooks, including Hallelujah! The Welcome Table: A Lifetime of Memories With Recipes (2005) and Great

continued from p(18) Ibb spits fire: denies Boko Hara...

get a road map out of the Boko Haram pogrom?

There are also instances where third person narrative tenor is given to Sheik Sani Haliru, thus making the whole exercise curiously misleading and utterly unconscionable to warrant any serious recognition.

In all of these, so many conjectures, hearsays, deductions, impressions and lies were bandied in the said interview thus making the entire contents suspect. For example, his reference to the October 1st bombing in Abuja is totally at variance with what the State Security Service has unravelled about the masterminds of that dastardly incident.

We are therefore at sea to reconcile any of the claims as truly reflective of any sound mind save that we have every reason to believe that this is purely a well-scripted interview to give our revered IBB a bad name. What the real motive of the interview is remains to us very worrisome because we cannot in any way rationalize the immediate or remote intentions of the interviewee and the interviewer.

For purposes of record, General IBB wishes to disclaim whoever that might have granted such interview and wish to emphatically state that there is no iota of truth in whatever the interviewee must have put down. There is no connection whatsoever between himself and the socalled Sheik Sani Haliru. It will serve good purpose if the said Sani Haliru could disclose his age in 1985, 1987 and 1992, because his claim of 44 years of Boko Haram activities could be self-contradict-

ing if we are able to know his real age. 1985 till date is a record 27 years.

By the time we subtract that age from 44 , the guess is as good as mine.

One couldn’t possibly know what feat a 17 years old boy would perform in 1985 to warrant any linkage with IBB. It will also be of good use if he could disclose the instances where IBB is directly and indirectly connected or linked to his activities, how much money he was given, who gave the money and what period of time?

The uncomplimentary adjectives he used to describe General IBB further expose the underpinning lies in the interview.

Every Nigerian that has had opportunity of interacting with this great Nigerian called IBB from North to South, East to West, would concede to the bare-faced fact that General IBB is generally a likeable person, generous, kind and very hearty personality whose contributions to national development and unity of Nigeria remain unparalleled in the history of Nigeria. For such a leader who has put his all in the development and unity of the country to now get involved in such heinous activities as described by the so-called Sani Haliru stands logic on its head.

All the insinuations as to the deliberate effort of IBB trying to Islamise Nigeria are clear indications that Sani Haliru is suffering from self-delusion.

Perhaps, he did not realize the fact that IBB’s VicePresidents and some of his key players in his cabinet were Christians. He also might have forgotten that it was in the same regime

that our broken diplomatic ties with Israel were restored to allow Nigerians embark on Holy Pilgrimage to Jerusalem. If we are to follow all the writings in the Bible, and interpret them likewise, one will be tempted to say that the Bible is preaching violence too. But the word of God cannot be interpreted on its face value; hence men should be wary about drawing conclusions that are informed by their limited understanding of the word of God. We therefore wish to inform the public to disregard and ignore whoever might be the face behind that name called Sheik Sani Haliru and the message of doom that he seems desperate to propagate. We wish to assure our teeming members’ world-wide that as elder statesman, General IBB will not desist from offering his plausible contributions to national discourse and that no amount of blackmail can take that leadership away from this great icon. The unity and peaceful co-existence of Nigeria is very dear to General IBB and having fought in the 30months civil war of the late sixties, he would do everything humanly possible to avert any descent to anarchy in our fatherland.

We challenge both the interviewee and interviewer to disclose the documents they claim to have to prove us wrong, otherwise, they should keep their mouths shut forever.”

Food, All Day Long (2010).

Angelou’s career has seen numerous accolades, including the Chicago International Film Festival’s 1998 Audience Choice Award and a nod from the Acapulco Black Film Festival in 1999 for Down in the Delta; and two NAACP Image Awards in the outstanding literary work (nonfiction) category, for her 2005 cookbook and 2008’s Letter to My Daughter.

1968. Angelou stopped celebrating her birthday for years afterward, and sent flowers to King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, for more than 30 years, until Coretta’s death in 2006.

Angelou was good friends with TV personality Oprah Winfrey, who has organized several birthday celebrations for the awardwinning author, including a week-long cruise for her 70th birthday in 1998.

After experiencing health issues for a number of years, Maya Angelou died on May 28, 2014, at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The news

of her passing spread quickly with many people taking to social media to mourn and remember Angelou. Singer Mary J. Blige and politician Cory Booker were among those who tweeted their favorite quotes by her in tribute.

President Barack Obama also issued a statement about Angelou, calling her “a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman.” Angelou “had the ability to remind us that we are all God’s children; that we all have something to offer,” he wrote.

Source:www.biography. com

Personal Life Martin Luther King Jr., a close friend of Angelou’s, was assassinated on her birthday (April 4) in

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

PRINCE KASSIM AFEGBUA MEDIA SPOKESMAN TO GENERAL IBB

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

37

Independence of African countries in May pia but with minimal autonomy but the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie had ambitions of undercutting Eritrea’s independent status. In the 1950s resistance began with the formation of the Eritrean Liberation Movement and the Ethiopian Emperor moved on to annex the country in 1962.

This led to a 30 year war from 1961 to 1991 when the Eritrean Peoples’ Liberation Front defeated the Ethiopian forces in Eritrea and the Eritrean people later on voted in a referendum for independence and was granted independence on May 24 1991.

By Paul Njogu

(NCNC) Early European settlement in African countries resulted to annexation of land and colonization from as early as the 15th century. Most countries in Africa experienced colonial struggles due to conflicts between the local people and the settlers that had colonized them. African countries that gained independence in the month of May are South Africa and Eritrea.

Independence of South Africa South Africa is a southern African state that has gone through two periods of colonization from the Dutch initially and then the British. The Dutch occupied it from 1652 and the British took over in 1795 and re-occupied it in 1806 after returning it shortly.

The Portuguese and the

Dutch were the earlier settlers but the Portuguese didn’t have much interest in colonizing the region.

The Dutch also didn’t have much interest but created a safe camp for their trading ships and the Dutch East India Company later on established a permanent settlement where they did minimal trading with the local Khoikhoi people.

The Dutch later moved on inland and colonized more territory. The settlers established farms and began expanding their farms north and east into the Khoikhoi territory. They later adopted a semi nomadic lifestyle and were called Trek

INDEPENDENCE OF OTHER COUNTRIES: Cuba Boers (wandering farmers) which was later shortened to Boers. The British came in the 18th century and accelerated the colonization process by ceding the

conflicts with the locals including the Zulu chiefs and it ended with the Battle of Blood River where many lost their lives. The British continued ceding land and colonizing much more territory but also met resistance from the local Zulu clans. They also set up large sugar plantations in these territories but with stiff resistance and lack of labour from the locals they turned to the Indian immigrants. There was constant war between the British, Boers and the Zulus but the British later unified all the territory under its rule

East Timor East Timor is a country in South East Asia that was colonized by Portugal in the 16th century until they began decolonization in 1974 and declared its independence in November 1975.

However it was invaded

by Indonesian forces and with the intervention of United Nations sponsored act of self-determination, Indonesia granted it independence on May 20 2002 after relinquishing control of East Timor territory.

Ecuador Ecuador is a country in South America that was colonized by the Spanish

abolished with the African National Congress coming into power in a multiracial, multiparty election following negotiations with Nelson Mandela and F. W. de Clerk on ending apartheid and discrimination against blacks.

Independence of Eritrea Eritrea is a country in the Horn of Africa that derives its name from the Greek name Erythraia, meaning red land. Its earliest settlements date back to the 1st century AD where the Aksum kingdom was established in Eritrea and

Cape Colony and taking control. In early 19th century, the local tribes, began a “forced-migration (“difaqane”) as a result of one of the local chiefs, Shaka Zulu, son of the chief of the Zulu clan, consolidating power to a centralized state by conquering neighboring territories. However in 1828 he was killed by his half-brothers and many local tribes were displaced as a result of his conquering programs of expansion.

Meanwhile the Boers were dissatisfied with British rule and migrated to the interior territories and found good grazing lands.

The Boers however had in 1910, with a nominal independence as the Union of South Africa. In the British and Dutch rule, racial segregation was informal and later on laws were enacted to control the movement of the local natives.

Finally in 1961, a referendum was done and South Africa became a republic with the Governor General being the State President on 31st May 1961. Later in 1994, apartheid was

independence from the US on May 20 1902.

northern Ethiopia. However the kingdom was later on declined and was isolated with the rise of Islam. By the end of the 19th century the Italians had colonized the country and they were defeated by the British in the Second World War and Eritrea was placed under British rule until its fate could be decided by the Allied Forces. Later a United Nations resolution was passed joining it to Ethio-

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean that was occupied by the American Indian people and was colonized by Spain following the arrival of European ships led by Christopher Columbus. They established settlements but they faced rebellion from the slaves which led to conflicts. In 1898, a US battleship, Maine, was sent to protect American interests but exploded killing all the crew. This started the Spanish-American war and Spain granted independence to Cuba but sold it to the United States. The United States recognized Cuba as an independent nation

and in 1809 began pushing for independence led by several people in the city of Quito. Later Antonio Jose de Sucre defeated the Spanish Royalist Forces at the Battle of Pichincha and Ecuador got its independence on May 24 1822.

but placed conditions before it withdrew its forces.

Cuba was granted formal

its first ruler as the dictator Jose Gaspar Rodriguez de Francia.

Paraguay Paraguay is a landlocked country in South America that got its first European settlers in 1516 when Spanish explorers set up the settlements. It later became a Spanish colony. However the Spanish administration was later defeated on May 15 1811 and Paraguay gained independence with

38

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

STATE NEWS Plot against Nyako: Tukur’s son splits PDP

N23b proposed bonds : Kwara ‘ll save N500m monthly The Kwara State government yesterday shed more light on the N23billion bonds it plans to access from the capital market for the execution of capital projects.

It added that the bond will enable the state to save N500 million monthly.

The state Finance Commissioner, Demola Banu while explaining the necessity of the bond to reporters, said the monthly saving will enable the state embark

•Stakeholders threaten protest vote, root for APC’s Ribadu •Nyako’s son, Hong, Gulak, Fintiri, favoured as deputy governor There is trouble in the Adamawa State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) arising from its alleged plot to impeach Governor Murtala Nyako.

The party is sharply divided over moves to make Awwal Tukur, son of the immediate past national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, deputy governor should the plot against Nyako succeed.

Alleged plans by the elder Tukur to make Awwal the PDP governorship candidate in the state next year were partly responsible for the crisis that forced him out of office.

The presidency and the PDP want Nyako axed on the strength of a recent memo he wrote to his fellow northern governors on the security challenges in the north, particularly his claim that the federal authorities were carrying out genocide against the north in the anti-Boko Haram military campaign.

The memo, in the view of presidency officials and the security agencies that studied it, constitutes a threat to national security.

Barring a change of heart, impeachment proceedings against Nyako are expected to commence within the next two weeks.

Those involved want the matter dealt with expeditiously and are already lining up who gets what once Nyako is out of the way.

The constitution stipulates that the deputy governor (in this case Mr. Bala Ngilari) should take over once his principal is impeached.

But who becomes his deputy has become a big issue in the PDP with many stakeholders demanding an end to Tukur’s stronghold on the party in the state.

The PDP stakeholders are also threatening to resort to protest vote in 2015 in favour of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which is trying to build consensus around a former Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.

They say Ribadu has a better profile than Ngilari.

Investigation by our correspon-

dent revealed that some PDP leaders in the state are opposed to the removal of Nyako because it might affect the fortunes of the party in Adamawa.

It was gathered that the leaders, who met on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday in Yola and Abuja decided to send representation to President Goodluck Jonathan to shelve the idea of removing Nyako because of the ethnic crisis it might generate in the state. Although the PDP stakeholders agreed that there are enough grounds to impeach Nyako, they were also of the view that the Fulani hegemony in the state will not accept any change now.

It was learnt that most PDP stakeholders, including 13 members of the Adamawa State House of Assembly, prefer Nyako completing his term in office.

Findings also revealed that PDP stakeholders are split over plans to make Awwal Tukur the next deputy governor if Nyako is impeached.

The former National Chairman of PDP had been scheming for his son to be the governorship candidate of the party in Adamawa State in 2015.

The scheming caused disaffection between Bamanga Tukur and PDP stakeholders leading to defection to APC in the state.

It was gathered that the stakeholders are still opposed to Awwal Tukur as deputy governor in spite of his antecedent as a former member of the House of Representatives like Ngilari.

Some stakeholders have recommended a former Minister of State for Health, Dr. Aliyu Idi Hong; exPolitical Adviser to the president, Ahmed Gulak, the current Speaker of Adamawa House of Assembly; and Nyako’s son, AbdulAziz, as the next deputy governor.

A highly-placed source said: “The impeachment plot against Nyako might fail because even among ourselves we are divided along ethnic and religious lines. Irrespective of the sins committed by Nyako, the Fulani (who are in the majority) will not take kindly to the sack of the governor.

“Already the Fulani and Muslim leaders have been calling members of the House of Assembly one by one to reject the plot by the presidency

on more capital projects.

Also at the briefing were Works and Transport Commissioner, Dr Abubakar Kannike, Senior Special Assistants to Governor AbdulFatah Ahmed on Investment and Media and Communications, Abayomi Ogunsola, and Dr Muideen Akorede as well as the governor’s Chief Press Secretary, Abdulwahab Oba. Banu said: “The N17 billion bonds that the state government

obtained from the capital market in 2009 will be fully repaid in August this year. There was an initial proposal of N30 billion which was reduced to N23 billion. We have an existing loan that will amount to N7.5 billion

by July this year, this is not part of the N17 billion loan, we got that loan from the commercial bank.”

The Nation

Local Borno village women’s group repels Boko Haram attack on their communities Tuesday, 27 May 2014 LOCAL women in the villages of Attagara and Kawuri in Borno State disarmed 10 Boko Haram terrorists who tried to attack their communities over the weekend resulting in the lynching of seven of the insurgents.

As part of its ongoing reign of terror, Boko Haram tried to spread its operations to Attagara and Kawuri villages in Gwoza and Bama Local Government Areas of Borno State. However, they were resisted by a group of women using local charms among other things and were disarmed.

After the women repelled the attacks, they then raised the alarm and the rest of the community rallied round to apprehend the insurgents. Three of the terrorists fled but seven were arrested and lynched by an irate mob.

One resident said the attackers invaded the village yesterday on motorcycles but ran into the women and wanted to hit them with sticks but when they raised the sticks, their hands refused to descend. The women then notified the local vigilante group, which rushed to the scene, disarmed the seven insurgents and lynched them.

According to the resident: “Three of the insurgents fled but seven were not lucky as the women alerted the people.”

Attagara, a border community with Cameroon is about 10 kilo-

metres southeast of Pulka District in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State and about 130 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital. Of late, local people across Borno state have stepped up the fightback against Boko Haram, having borne the brunt of its brutal terrorist campaign.

Yesterday, scores of gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram were killed yesterday through the combined efforts of members of the vigilante youths, otherwise known as the Civilian Joint Task Force and the military in Kawuri village in Bama Local Government Area of Borno

State. Mamman Yakubu, a vigilante youth that participated in repelling the insurgents, said they lynched the terrorists because Boko Haram members hardly reveal any secrets when arrested.

One top security source, who confirmed the incident, said that three dead bodies of the terrorists were recovered yesterday morning in Kawuri. He added that more of the terrorists were killed in a nearby bus, close to Kawuri when they attempted to flee to the Sambisa Forest.

and PDP. About 10 to 13 members of the Assembly may oppose the impeachment bid based on the persuasion of the Fulani.

“Some members of the Assembly have been telling Fulani leaders that the presidency and PDP had been persuading them to impeach Nyako.”

Another source, who spoke in confidence, confirmed the disagreement among Adamawa PDP stakeholders on plans to remove Nyako.

“The source said: “Some of us in

PDP are looking at the larger picture.

If the presidency and the PDP go ahead to remove Nyako, it will lead to protest vote by the Fulani in 2015.

“With this development, APC will convincingly win the state if it reaches consensus on ex-EFCC Chairman, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as its candidate.”

“It is impossible for Ngilari to beat Ribadu, who is a Fulani and an accomplished anti-graft Czar.

“This plot requires being tactical.

Even if PDP heats up the state with

the impeachment threat, APC might still have the upper hand.”

A third source said: “The plot is beclouded by disagreement over the choice of the next deputy governor.

Our former National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur is seeking the ticket for his son, Awwal Tukur.

“Some stakeholders are saying we should bring in Nyako’s son, AbdulAziz to appease the Fulani and earn grassroots support for the impeachment.”

The Nation

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Source: www.nigerianwatch.com

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Adopted Son Of General Buhari Arrested For N20m Scam

By SaharaReporters, New York

An adopted son of a former military Head of State, General Mohammadu Buhari has been arrested by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over an alleged N20( Twenty Million Naira only) fraud The suspect, Mohammed Buhari, was arrested over a transaction that has the trappings of voodoo investment scheme. He allegedly obtained N20 million from one Mrs Florence Nwokocha, purportedly to invest in a lucrative oil and gas

business with promises of mouth watery returns to the investor. Buhari was allegedly introduced to the lady by his account officer at Ecobank Plc and he agreed to pay Nwokocha, 30 per-

cent annual interest on the sum.

But once the money was transferred, Buhari cleaned out the account but never paid any interest to the woman. sources at the EFCC informs that the suspect claims he ran into trouble after he lost the bank guarantee which he secured from another new generation bank. The bank, he claims, voided the guarantee on the ground that the branch of the bank that processed it was not competent to do so.

Buhari is still in the custody of the EFCC as investigations in the case continue.

Niger sees first slavery conviction over “fifth wife” A man has been sentenced to four years in jail in Niger in the first ever conviction for slavery in the country.

The pressure group AntiSlavery International told the BBC the 63-year-old man was convicted of having what is known as a “fifth wife”.

Men in Niger are allowed to have four wives under a local interpretation of Islamic law.

With a “fifth wife”, no marriage takes place and the woman is treated solely as property.

Niger officially banned slavery in 2003 but antislavery organisations say thousands of people still live in subjugation.

The conviction took place in the town of Birnin Konni in south-west Niger, close to the border with Nigeria.

Anti-Slavery International says “fifth wives” are often girls of slave descent sold to wealthy men who view the purchase of young women as a sign of prestige.

The women face a lifetime of physical and psychological abuse and forced labour, the group says.

The case was taken to court by Anti-Slavery’s partners in Niger, Timidria.

Sarah Mathewson, Africa Programme Co-ordinator at Anti-Slavery International, said it was “incredible” to achieve a conviction.

In a landmark case in 2008, the West African regional body Ecowas found Niger’s government guilty of failing to protect a woman from slavery. It ordered the government to pay compensation to the victim.

Source:desertherald.com

Imo traditional rulers reject Okorocha’s cars

BY CHIDI NKWOPARA

OWERRI-Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, was stunned as royal fathers defiantly rejected the Toyota Sienna vehicles presented to them by the state government.

Most of the traditional rulers, who spoke angrily to Vanguard on the issue, said nobody consulted them before they went into the market to make the purchases.

One of the aggrieved royal fathers, who spoke on strict grounds of anonymity for fear of victimization, said: “It was a gratuitous insult for the administration to, on its own, buy and force us to use Sienna vehicles. “it is most uncharitable for the administration to announce to the world that

Chief Rochas Okorocha

the governor is distributing vehicles free of charge to Imo royal fathers, when in actual fact Okorocha would be deducting N50,000 from our monthly stipends for the next three years.”

While insisting that each traditional ruler was expected to cough out a total sum of N1.8 million at the end of the three-year deductions, the monarch also opined that “the entire arrangement was deceitful and most embarrassing”.

Another monarch recalled with grief, how the

governor ordered each traditional ruler to present two jars of palm wine for the Freedom Day celebration.

“The order was very humiliating. I am not too sure any traditional ruler from either the Yoruba or Hausa communities could be given such directives,” the royal father lamented.

Vanguard’s last check before going to press has revealed that most of the traditional rulers have withdrawn the documents they signed for the collection of the proposed vehicles.

Spirited efforts made to get the Commissioner for Community Government Council and Chieftaincy Affairs, Chief Val Mbamala, for his comments failed as his mobile line could not be reached at press time.

39

Igbo Language teachers needed in America Igbo School in the State of Michigan, United States, is set to hire Igbo Language teachers for its 2014 summer programme.

“Our children and youth are appealing that we help them learn Igbo Language and their Igbo heritage.

If you can fluently speak, read, and write Igbo Language, then you have a well-paying teaching job for a 4-week Igbo School programme, starting on Monday, July 7, 2014. You will not only be handsomely paid but also will receive other fringe benefits from Igbo community!”

The foregoing appeal was part of a statement issued by the Igbo Cultural Association of Michigan (ICAM), United States of America, and co-signed by the chair and other key officers of the association.

According to the statement, ICAM is more than ever committed to organise and render a stateof-the-art summer programme to Igbo sons and daughters in the U.S. Denonstrating its commitment and seriousness

of the programme, it employed the Igbo adage: “Ihe ọkụkọ bu mmiri naachụ, dị ya mkpa.” (Whatever the chicken is chasing in the rain must be important to it).

It noted: “While we dream and wish for the day we will pack and relocate our children to Nigeria, where we all came from and where they will learn Igbo and their history, we can start teaching them our Igbo language here. Other ethnic groups are smartly doing so. Why can’t the Igbo families in Michigan?

“ICAM has assembled well-grounded experts in management and education to plan and conduct

a 2014 Igbo education programme of the highest order. Already we have started receiving students and families for the program! We have secured a venue! We have drawn an enriched curriculum! We are ready!”

Interested and qualified candidates are advised to apply through the following e-mail addresses latest by today, May 30, 2014: 1. Chief/Dr. Ikenna Fortune Duru….ikemba22@ hotmail.com 2. Engr. Onwuka Uchendu….onwukauchendu@ yahoo.com 3. Rev. Fr. Obi....phonsobi@yahoo.com Source News Express

continued from p(29) Politically Speaking where it is stable and doing better than most jurisdiction around the world.

You are going to have a government that continues to invest in infrastructure, health care, education and the environment, while at the same time allowing the business climate here in Ontario to be competitive.

NCNC: We get glimpses of who Premiere Wynne is through the TV and reading articles about here. However you have the opportunity to work closely with her. Why do you support Kathleen Wynne?

MC: She is the real deal. She is a much grounded individual, very humble and a very smart and intelligent person. I believe if the province gives this incredible person the opportunity to lead we will see a transformation in this province. She is fair.

She believes that everyone should have the opportunity to be successful. It is about leveling the playing field and supporting those who need the help to continue to build a strong province. I think she is the best person to lead out of the three candidates and I believe Ontario can

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

see this too.

NCNC: Where do you see yourself in 10 years, Premiere, Prime Minister?

MC: No, I don’t think a lifelong career in politics is healthy for anyone. I would like to go back into the not for profit sector eventually and do some work. I would love to get into some international work, helping young people, literacy and access to education on the international level. I’m not sure; maybe that is what I will be doing in 10-years.

NCNC: Ok, we will be here to see.

Final question, you won the last election with more than 50 percent of the votes, do you care to give a prediction going into this election?

MC: The first rule in answering media question is never answer hypothetical questions (laughs). I think this will be a tough fight. I think it will come down to ensuring people understand the difference in values that we have in comparison to the other two parties, and reminding people that despite

the few controversies that has occurred over the last decade, this province when it comes to education and health care, energy production, and the environment, we have gone leaps ahead of other jurisdiction; Our tax base right now lower than when the conservatives where in a decade ago; Our GDP is 3.2-percent higher than what it was before the recession hit. In 2003, one out of three students were dropping out of school, we have lowered that substantially by bringing it from 67-percent graduation to 83-percent in the province.

We had the longest wait time at hospitals, now we have the shortest wait time a decade later. We have rebuilt our energy grid in Ontario, eliminating dirty energy sources like coal to build one of the most environmentally friendly jurisdictions in North America.

As a result Asthma rates have dropped substantially.

We are in a lot better place.

NCNC: Thank you so much for this interview Michael and good luck.

MC: Thanks, my pleasure.

Nigerian Canadian News

40

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

BOOKS - EDITOR’S PICK A Chance at Love

Could This Be Love

Tangled Chords

By Sheena Binkley

By Brenda Barret

By Venessa Miller

Tia Simmons has been happily dating Eric Taylor for the past six months, and could possibly see a future with him. He’s everything Tia wants in a man- smart, funny, and extremely sexy, but she feels something is missing in the relationship. Until she finds what she’s looking for, she’ll be with Eric as long as she can.

Charles Robinson always dated women without the concept of falling in love. He doesn’t even want to think about the word considering….

Caught in the middle of a scandal that had the potential to destroy both a governor and a senator, Raven Thomas must decide whether to follow her head or her heart. With danger on the horizon no matter which way she turns, Raven tries to out run the inevitable.

But the gorgeous and wildly successful Marcus Allen won’t let Raven run away from him, even if having her puts his political career in jeopardy.

Business

A Memeoir

Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

What’s past is past!

Xavier Bell, the poor ugly duckling, has emerged into a rich handsome swan. He is tired of the fast paced life that his hugely successful business afforded him and is looking to return to and settle down in his native Jamaica when he has a chance encounter with his old crush, hotel heiress, Farrah Knight.

If Only You Knew

Relationship How to Raise a Husband: A Whole Bunch of Ways to Build a Strong and Happy Marriage

By Carla Fredd

Friends to Lovers Anna May Robinson has always known that Ric Justice is the only man she’ll ever love—even if he considers her just his friend.

When she learns she must have a baby now, or risk never having children, she takes the biggest risk of her life: persuade Ric to be the father of her child.

Children I Love You, Daddy

Retire Young Retire Rich: How to Get Rich Quickly and Stay Rich Forever!

by Tonilyn Hornung

How to Raise a Husband is not your average “men are from one planet, women from another” kind of relationship book. Tonilyn Hornung offers an extremely personal collection of wisdom from six married women that’s like advice from your very best (and most trusted) girlfriends.

A Growing Suspicion: A Rebecca Mystery (American Girl: Rebecca Mysteries)

by Edie Evans

Ripley’s Believe It Or Not: Completely Awesome (CURIO)

by Robin Roberts

By Napoleon Hill

Everybody’s Got Something “Regardless of how much money you have, your race, where you live, what religion you follow, you are going through something.

Or you already have or you will.

As momma always said, “Everybody’s got something.”

THE SELF-HELP CLASSIC THAT HAS CHANGED MILLIONS OF LIVES!

Your mind has a secret invisible talisman. On one side is emblazoned the letters PMA (positive mental attitude) and on the other the letters NMA (negative mental attitude). A posiIf satisfied, tell others! tive attitude will If not please, tell us. naturally attract the good and the beautiful.

The negative attitude publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca will rob you of admin@nigeriancanadiannews.ca all that makes life Distinctly Ahead worth living.

Nigerian Canadian News 416-318-3506

If you don’t plan on working hard all your life... this book is for you. If you’re ready to retire (or want to retire early enough to enjoy your retirement years) you can learn from Robert’s story of how he and his wife Kim started with nothing and ‘retired’—financially free—in less than 10 years. This book makes the case for how a context shift in the way we think about money and investing allows us to see opportunities others miss and create the life you deserve.

Your success, health, happiness, and wealth depend on how you make up your mind!

by Jacqueline Dembar Greene

Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Completely Awesome is sure to thrill anyone who enjoys learning about the world of the extraordinary. The 384 pages of this book are packed with captivating facts, implausible feats, and far-fetched yet completely true stories. Readers will learn about a man who gargles molten lead, shoes

SOURCE: AMAZON.COM

Rebecca and Ana are spending spring vacation volunteering at a Japanese garden in Brooklyn. Rebecca is enchanted by the lush landscape of ferns and waterfalls, the exotic orchids, and the gardener’s beautiful wife. Yet everything Rebecca does there tur ns out wrong. Someone seems determined to damage the garden-made from elephant dung, a real-life invisibility coat, and the world’s scariest airplane runways.

BOOKS AVAILABLE AT THE TORONTO & MISSISSAUGA PUBLIC LIBRARIES VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

41

YOUTH CORNER Your children need your presence more than your presents” - Jesse Jackson Welcome to another month of the youth corner. I hope all the university and college students are having a great vacation. A relaxing vacation is something to look forward to and we sure need one to stay motivated and rejuvenated when we return.

On May 10th 2014 I had the great pleasure in participating in the #bringbackourgirls rally. We had a lot of media coverage and

Book of the Month

By: Ray Bradbury

Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn’t live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television.

great speakers, performers and politicians. There has been great support not only in Canada but all around the world. I would like to give a big thank to everyone who came out, it was a great turn out. I would also like to give a big thank to the African Women Acting Organization along with the HopeWorks Connection. I love seeing the community come together for an issue like this.

My prayers still goes out to the families that are going through this tragic time and I pray that God will comfort them and bring them back good news. We want the girls home alive.

Have you noticed that it is so hard now to find a good summer job? And if you do, the hours are so ridiculous. Please if you know a good place that is hiring, some students are looking, please

spread the news. Let us work together as a COMMUNITY. Together we all grow.

I am always looking for ways to improve on my contents; if you have ideas-poems, shout out, pictures to share, articles, books to recommend, please feel free to contact me or the publisher.

Enjoy your summer safely.

You know how to reach me: dima_62@hotmail.com

Stars in her Eyes

By Sabeen “Dad, I’m going for a drive with Ryan.” Selene sashayed out to the back garden where Josh and James were both pounding loud enough to wake the dead.

“What?” yelled James.

“I am going for a drive with Ryan,” she yelled just as loud.

Josh stopped hammering the nail in the wooden sheet long enough to look at her. She ignored him. It was a pain to see him every time she looked around. “He is my new boyfriend,” she added for good measure since they were both listening to her now. Take that, dude! Did he think she couldn’t get a boyfriend? Selene had really taken a disliking to Josh ever since the first day when he ignored her.

“Ryan?” Her dad hefted the hammer. “Is he in your school?”

“Yes, dad.”

“Josh, do you know the guy?

What’s he like?”

Grrr! Selene wanted to heft the hammer and break someone’s head. Why did her dad have to rely on Josh so much?

It was all ‘Josh did that. Josh said that. Josh is a straight A student. Why can’t you be more like Josh? He is so responsible.’

She was sick of hearing about him all the time. Selene turned to gaze at Josh, daring him to say anything non-flattering about Ryan.

“He is alright,” said Josh.

“Plays the guitar.”

“Guitar?” said James. He wrinkled his nose much the same way that Selene did.

“Yes, dad. He plays the guitar. Not everyone can play soccer well.” Selene flounced off, feeling annoyed by the whole scenario. Ever since her dad had met Josh, he’d been bowled over the boy’s virtues.

And to add insult to injury, Josh also worked part-time in the club which she frequented with her friends. So it was literally as if he was shadowing her everywhere. And yet, he’d never as much as glanced in her direction. It was as if she didn’t even exist. Not that she wanted him to pay her any attention, but still, jeez, he could be polite.

Selene walked out, opened the door, and sat inside the car.

“Hey, sweetheart.” Ryan smiled

as he gunned the car back through the driveway. “Ready to party?”

“I thought we were going for a drive.”

“That’s so lame. No. That was just an excuse. We’re going to my friend’s house. His parents are away and we can do whatever we want.”

Selene wasn’t sure she was happy with this new development. She didn’t know Ryan all that well. He’d asked her out in the cafeteria two days ago, and she said yes, because well, he was cute and dashing. And also because she was still mad at Josh for being so unfriendly.

She wanted to show him that she could get a boyfriend without any trouble if she chose to do so. But going to someone’s house when there were no chaperones, she wasn’t sure if she trusted Ryan that much.

Still, it was too late to back out now.

After the car slid to a stop outside a massive colonial house, they both stepped out.

Ryan took her inside and introduced her to Roger, his friend who was another classmate of theirs. The boys hung out at the pool table while

Selene watched them, bored.

“Come on babe, up we go.”

Ryan beckoned her when they finished the game.

About time he paid her any attention! It’s not as if she enjoyed watching the boys whack some balls together. Selene followed him up and was surprised when he took her into a room. “Whose room is this?”

“It is Roger sister’s room but she is away in college. Come here.” Ryan bounced on the bed. Ok, so he was seriously a hottie with his long, curly hair tied in a pony behind his head, and his devil-may-care black eyes, but she didn’t know what the hell he was up to.

Selene sat. “What?” He leaned forward to kiss her.

She puckered. Their lips met.

It was sweet and nice. His lips were soft, and his breath hot against her. Suddenly, Selene felt a hand on her breast. She jumped apart as if she’d been touched by hot iron. “What are you doing?”

“Come on, babe!” he looked hurt. “What’s the big deal?”

She stood, vibrating with anger. “I want to go home right now.”

“Jeez! It’s not like I forced

myself on you or something.

Calm down.” He stood. “Look, relax. I will take you home.

Let’s go down and watch some TV. I promise I won’t make a move,” he said, looking flustered. “I didn’t really mean anything.”

Selene wasn’t sure she could trust him anymore. But she didn’t have a choice. Plus he was her boyfriend and she didn’t want to look like a fool.

“Alright.” She agreed reluctantly as she followed him out.

Maybe it hadn’t been such a good idea to go out with someone without getting to know him better first. She shouldn’t have said yes to him over her anger with Josh. Josh! Why the hell couldn’t she stop thinking about him? It was annoying to have his face pop up in her mind every ten seconds or so.

The more determined she was to ignore the fellow, the more consistency he showed up in her thoughts. Grrr! Nothing about this move to Srona was working out. Things were only going from bad to worse, and at this speed, she would be down in the dumps within days.

To be continued.

NCNC

#BringBackOurGirls Rally in Toronto, Canada - May 10th, 2014

Names & Meanings (Igbo) 1. AMADI (1) m Western African, Igbo Means "free man" in Igbo.

2. CHIMA m Western African, Igbo Means "God knows" in Igbo.

3. IKENNA m Western African, Igbo Means "father's power" in Igbo.

4. OBI m Western African, Igbo Means "heart" in Igbo

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

42

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

WORLD ‘Kinky’ University to change name Move over Fukuppy, Japan's Kinki University has decided it's time for a name change after years of foreigners sniggering about its pervy nomenclature.

Like Fukuppy, the mascot for Fukushima Industries, the name "Kinki University" doesn't even raise an eyebrow in Japan, coming as it does from the Kinki area - the country's mid-western region in and around Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo prefectures.

But the university's dean Hitoshi Shiozaki told reporters this week that he is tired of the giggles he gets abroad when he tells people where he works.

"The word 'kinky' also means perverted," he said. "We have no other choice than changing the English name because we are serious about pursuing a more international school culture."

Kinki University will become Kindai Univer-

sity - a contraction of "Kinki" and "Daigaku" (university), the school said on Wednesday, but the change will only take effect in 2016 when a new international studies faculty is opened.

Managers hope the move will embolden students to apply for exchanges, safe in the knowledge that they won't be laughed at just for the name of their university.

In October last year Fukushima Industries said it would rename its mascot, Fukuppy, after Internet users pointed out its unfortunate resemblance to an English

expression that many feel describes the catastrophe at the unrelated Fukushima nuclear power plant.

However, a search of the company's website on Wednesday revealed the slightly gormlesslooking winged egg still bore the same name.

Japanese, which has far fewer sounds than many European languages, abounds with vaguely amusing transliterations.

No major urban centre, for example, is without its own Shiti Hotel - the less-than-inviting pronunciation of "city hotel".

Afp

World Bank approves US$58m grant for Haiti WASHINGTON (CMC) -- The World Bank says it has approved US$58 million grant that will assist an estimated 190,000 producers, investors and members of agricultural organisations in Haiti have improved access to local markets and services.

The Washington-based financial institution said the grant, from its International Development Association (IDA) subsidiary, aims to attract public and private investment, and build resilience to climate shocks.

“Agriculture is a key sector for the region, which is highly vulnerable to natural hazards and where producers are isolated and lack of reliable roads to connect production to processing sites and local markets,” the World Bank said.

“This lack of road infrastructure also limits the economic transit to the capital, the North and the Dominican Republic,” it

added.

World Bank Special Envoy to Haiti, Mary BartonDock, noted that nearly 80 per cent of traffic is by land in Haiti.

“Enhancing connectivity for producers by allowing them to move and have access to other economic centers whatever the climatic conditions will have a decisive impact on the economic growth of the region,” she said, adding ‘allweather roads are also a key asset for investors”.

Barton- Dock said among concrete results to be achieved by the funding are nearly 190,000 producers and 30 per cent of women will benefit from the all-weather roads and

improved connectivity and logistics for investment, production and trade.

“The development of the Central Artibonite region will help fight against extreme poverty that represents the socio -economic situation for more than half the population in the region,” said Marie-Carmelle Jean Marie, Minister of Economy and Finance.

“It is aligned with the Government's efforts to diversify the sources of wealth in the region and develop its potential,” she added. www.jamaicaobserver. com

Stripped down, $10,000 SUV, for Africa only A Kenyan startup automaker plans to build a car in Africa custom designed for impoverished buyers and underbuilt roads.

Called the Mobius, the SUV features none of the luxury items that make first-world vehicles too expensive, built with backing from U.S. cosmetics magnate Ronald Lau der.

The Mobius II was designed by an African startup to handle the rough roads of the region.

To meet the price of $10,000, the Mobius II does away with most creature comforts — from air conditioning to power steering and even windows.

Using a tubular steel frame and a small 86-hp four-cylinder gas engine

to keep costs low, Mobius claims the Mobius II can traverse most African road types.

Like old Land Rovers, the Mobius features facing bench seats in the rear.

The interior of the Mobius II redefines spartan, but its creators say such things don't matter to customers who need basic, affordable transportation. https://ca.finance.yahoo. com

Ugandan President faults Nigeria’s reliance on foreign help to rescue Chibok girls President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has faulted the involvement of foreigners in the effort to rescue the more than 200 school girls abducted by Boko Haram in Borno State.

Museveni, a former guerrilla leader said it is inconceivable that he would seek foreign help to protect Ugandans.

He was addressing a rally of his party at Zirobwe Town Council grounds.

“I have never called the United Nations to guard your security. Me, Yoweri Museveni to say that I have failed to protect my people and I call in the UN….I would rather hang myself,”

Museveni was quoted as saying by the pro-government New Vision newspaper.

He added: “We prioritised national security by developing a strong army, otherwise our Uganda would be like DRC, South Sudan, Somalia or Nigeria where

militias have disappeared with school children.

“It would be a vote of no confidence to our country and citizens if we can’t guarantee our security. What kind of persons would we be?” he asked amidst cheers from the crowd.

The Nation

Jacob Zuma elected president Jacob Zuma has been elected president during the first sitting of the new Parliament.

Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng dismissed a DA appeal against Zuma's nomination, clearing the way for Zuma to be elected unopposed.

Earlier, the ANC's Baleka Mbete was elected as the Parliamentary Speaker, beating the DA's Nosimo Balindlela.

The country's 400 new Members of Parliament, representing 13 political parties, were also sworn in

by Mogoeng.

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

President Jacob Zuma. AFP

In batches of 10, the new MPs made an oath and affirmed faithfulness to the Republic and obedience to the Constitution.

The Economic Freedom

Fighters (EFF) also turned heads on the day, thanks to their MPs coming to Parliament dressed as mineworkers and domestic workers.

SA News/Staff Reporter

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

Shocking: Mumbai shelter home forces children into sex and make porn videos Mumbai: A shocking incident has come to light where a shelter home was forcing children into sex and then filming them.

This shelter home is named ‘Chandraprabha shelter home’ located in Karjat district of Mumbai.

The incident came into light on Monday night after five students of the shelter home approached the police through an NGO.

The Police immediately arrested Ajit Dabhokar, the founder of Chandraprabha Charitable Trust (CCT) and his assistant Lalita Tonde.

Since then, three more children have come forward with the same complaint.

According to the complaint filed by children, the founder and his aides were subjecting the children to physical abuse and mental

inside a room in her home at Krishna Nagar area in east Delhi. She was found hanging by her father.

A two-line suicide note was found in which she stated that no one was responsible for her death.

She committed suicide with her mobile phone recording the act.

Raveena's family told police that she was depressed as her fiance demanded a Honda City car in dowry.

They also informed that two neigbours used to stalk

They forced them to make physical relations, filmed those moments and used to sell short films of these innocent kids in the porn market.

Source: newsexpressonline.com

her, which was another reason of her depression.

Monaco’s Princess Charlene is pregnant PRINCE Albert II and Princess Charlene of Monaco announced Friday that they are expecting their first child, who will be heir to the tiny principality.

The 36-year-old South African former Olympic swimmer and her 56-yearold husband, whom she married in 2011, issued a statement expressing their “immense joy”. The short statement said the birth is expected before the end of the year.

Although it did not elaborate, this implies that the princess is at least three months pregnant. Until the baby is born, the throne of Monaco, a tiny fiefdom smaller than New York’s Central Park, would pass to Princess Caroline, Albert’s older sister.

The constitution had been changed to allow Caroline a claim during Prince Albert’s tenure because subjects were nervous he wouldn’t produce an heir — after years of high-profile rendezvous with the beautiful and famous, said to include Brooke Shields, Clau-

Nigeria pays Ghana N1.6bn for shortfall in gas supply

torture.

Instead of providing good food, education to the children they were sexually exploiting them.

21-year-old DU student commits suicide, blames fiance in the video suicide note New Delhi: A 19-yearold Delhi University student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself and left a purported video message on her mobile phone.

The deceased, identified as Raveena (19) was found hanging from the ceiling fan of her room on the night of Wednesday.

She was depressed as her fiance, who was arrested for abatement to suicide, demanded a car in dowry.

She was found hanging

43

dia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell.

Albert has already acknowledged two children, born out of wedlock and thus excluded from the succession: his daughter Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, and his son Alexandre Coste.

— AP

Ghana has received a compensation of $10 million, about N1.6 billion, from Nigeria over the failure of the latter to meet supply of gas agreement between the two countries.

The agreement required Nigeria to supply Ghana with 123 Million Metric British Thermal Units (MMBtu) per day.

However, Nigeria has failed to meet that target, supplying 30 MMBtu/d and less sometimes. The Director of Planning and Business Development of the Volta River Authority (VRA), Kofi Ellis, told TV3’s Sandra Amarquaye on Friday, April 11 that Ghana has been paid some

damages by Nigeria over the shortfall as stipulated in the contract.

“The contract already stipulates some liquidated damages for reduction in supply,” Mr. Ellis told our reporter. “I know that already we have been paid some damages for the reduction in supply.”

A recent visit of the Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Emmanuel ArmahKofi Buah, to Nigeria culminated in West Africa’s biggest gas-supply nation promising to supply a constant 50 MMBtu/d.

Mr. Ellis commended that intervention by government, admitting that inasmuch as Nigeria would want to help

Ghana, they are also facing challenges.

“I guess the Nigerians also share in our problems.

They understand. The unfortunate thing is that this is a commodity that both countries need for themselves. So it is a matter of trying to see how best you can help your neighbor.”

He said the contract signed “many years ago” will not be abrogated though one party is facing challenges in meeting the terms.

The recent belowexpectation supply of gas from Nigeria has been cited as one of the causes of challenges in the energy sector.

Source: Vanguard Nigeria

Iran judge summons Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to court TEHRAN, Iran A judge in southern Iran has ordered Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear in court to answer complaints by individuals who say Facebook-owned applications Instagram and Whatsapp violate their privacy, semiofficial news agency ISNA reported yesterday.

It quoted Ruhollah Momen Nasab, an official with the paramilitary Basij force, as saying that the judge also ordered the two apps blocked. It is highly unlikely that Zuckerberg would appear in an Iranian court since there is no extradition treaty between Iran and the United States. Some Iranian courts have in recent years issued similar rulings that could not be carried out.

Another Iranian court

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

last week had ordered Instagram blocked over privacy concerns. However, users in the capital, Tehran, still could access both applications around noon yesterday.

In Iran, websites and Internet applications have sometimes been reported blocked but remained operational.

Facebook is already officially banned in the country, along with other social websites like Twitter and YouTube as well as their mobile apps. However some senior leaders like Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif are active on Twitter, and many Iranians use proxy servers to access banned websites and applications.

While top officials have unfettered access to social media, Iran’s youth and technology-savvy citizens use proxy servers or other

workarounds to bypass the controls.

The administration of moderate President Hassan Rouhani is opposed to blocking such websites before authorities create local alternatives. Social media has offered a new way for him and his administration to reach out to the West as it negotiates with world powers over the country’s contested nuclear programme.

“We should see the cyber world as an opportunity,” Rouhani said last week, according to the official IRNA news agency.

“Why are we so shaky?

Why don’t we trust our youth?”

Hard-liners, meanwhile, accuse Rouhani of failing to stop the spread of what they deem as “decadent” Western culture in Iran.

— AP

44

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Lisa Niemi, Patrick Swayze’s Widow, Marries Jeweler Albert DePrisco in Palm Beach Wedding Lisa Niemi has found true love, again! Patrick Swayze's widow and jeweler Albert DePrisco married in Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday, May 25, her rep confirms to Us Weekly.

Niemi, 57, and DePrisco, 58, first met through mutual friends and dated for more than a year before getting engaged last December. The Boston-based jeweler surprised Niemi with a proposal on Christmas Eve. Niemi was married to Dirty Dancing star Swayze for 34 years before he passed away at age 57 from pancreatic cancer in September 2009. After losing her beloved husband, Niemi opened up about what it was like to fall in love again in an April 2014 blog post.

"They say that falling in love is wonderful," Niemi wrote on her website, while describing her feelings

about DePrisco in great detail. "That sick feeling.

The butterfly stomach, the rubbery legs, the diminished mental capacity," she wrote of her emotions. "A feeling of being paralyzed, like some kind of speared fish, floating helplessly after a powerful sedative."

In the same post, Niemi revealed how she felt after briefly splitting from DePrisco due to longdistance strains in 2013. "I spent the next two mornings sobbing inconsolably for hours in private," she

wrote.

"My behavior was so crazy. But it had only been a few years since my husband had died, it was later that I realized that the separation had triggered all my fears, my emotions, the pain of, once again, having someone taken away from me."

"But I have to say, as devastating as the loss of my husband has been, would I go back and start all over again with him, even knowing the tragedy that lay ahead?" Niemi mused.

"Yes. I would," she said. "A thousand times over."

"Instead of walking away, or trying to find a way to be safe in a situation that threatens to annihilate me," she concluded, "Embrace ALL of it."

"Without holding back, without looking for a quick-exit rope."

Source:

Illness forces Lady Gaga to postpone Vancouver and Seattle ArtRave shows

Lady Gaga has postponed her Vancouver concert previously scheduled

for this Friday, May 30.

According to a brief statement emailed to me-

Lupita Nyong’o Becomes Movie Producer of Chimamanda’s ‘Americanah’

https://ca.celebrity.yahoo.com

Sony Pictures Imageworks relocating headquarters from U.S. to Vancouver

by CRAIG TAKEUCHI ANOTHER MAJOR VISUAL effects house is adding to the growth of Vancouver's visual effects industry.

Sony Pictures Imageworks issued a news release on Friday (May 30) that it is relocating its headquarters from Culver City, California, to Vancouver.

The Academy Award– winning visual effects and animation company will move into a new 74,000 square foot production facility that will house up to 700 employees.

The new location will be at the renovated former Sears building at Pacific Centre, which will also house Nordstrom's Canadian flagship store.

Imageworks will be located on the fifth floor while Microsoft has leased the

by Nathan Nathaniel Ekpo/ Nigeriafilms.com

African actress, Lupita Nyong'o, is leaving no stone

sixth and seventh floors.

Sony is expected to take advantage of film tax credits available in B.C. that aren't available in California.

British Columbian Jason Dowdeswell will continue to lead the Vancouver operations as vice-president of production operations. He will be joined by visual effects supervisor Mark Breakspear and vicepresident, new business and production executive, Shauna Bryan, both from Method Studios in Vancouver.

Imageworks opened a production office in Vancouver in 2010 with a staff of 80 artists, which grew to a staff of 350 people.

The company recently completed work on the Tom Cruise sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow and the recently released The Amazing Spider-Man 2, and is working or will work on Guardians of the Galaxy, Pixels, Angry Birds movie, Hotel Transylvania 2, and the untitled Smurfs movie.

Source: www.straight.com

dia, the last-minute cancellation is the result of "severe bronchitis".

The American pop superstar was scheduled to perform at Rogers Arena for her current tour, ArtRave: The Artpop Ball.

A May 28 show planned for Seattle is also postponed.

Update: Lady Gaga's Vancouver show has been rescheduled for August 9 at Rogers Arena. The Seattle concert will not take place on August 8 at Key Arena.

Fans are instructed to retain their tickets. More information is available at www.ladygaga.com or www.livenation.com.

Source:www.straight.com

unturned in her acting career ever since she was recognized with an award at The Oscars earlier this year in a movie ‘12 years a slave.’

Apparently her success story is not just her best alone in movie roles, but a collective efforts renowned producers of the make believe industry that is gradually helping to position the actress.

In a recent interview during a Stylist magazine book session in London, Nigerian literary writer, Chimamanda Adichie, hinted that Lupita Nyong'o has obtained rights for the film version of ‘Americanah.’

With this achievement, the actress will now have to produce the movie aspect of the writers work.

Why People Think I Am Rude--Toyin Aimakhu

By Nathan Nathaniel Ekpo/Nigeriafilms.com Yoruba Nollywood actress, Toyin Aimakhu Johnson, has expressed her sadness over the way she is being perceived in the industry as a bad girl which has now become an identity in the lip of some fans.

The actress, in a chat, described herself as a nice and easy going person who only interprets

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

her movie role the way it should be and leaves her normal life outside the set.

“I am a nice, friendly and accommodating person; I am not harsh or aggressive like people say. All I do is act and interpret my role. I love my private life a lot. I believe in honesty and perseverance. I play a lot; I don’t lie to myself and as such I don’t go beyond my limit. I also

believe in timing,” she explained.

“When I just got in the industry, I had problems with some people. They felt I was rude. It is not that I am rude. It is the way I was brought up.

In my house they allow us to express ourselves freely. Even with my father, you have the right to express yourself. They wanted us to be bold and that is it. That was my upbringing,” she added.

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

2014

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

45

46

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

RELIGIOUS NEWS My Month Of Re-engineering My Home Amos Dada PhD; P.Eng amos.dada@gmail.com Welcome to the month of June, my month of re-engineering my home.

What is engineering?

Engineering (from Latin ingenium, meaning “cleverness” and ingeniare, meaning “to contrive, devise”) is the application of scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, design, build, maintain, and improve structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes.(wikipedia) Engineering is the action of working artfully to bring something about.

Engineering means solving problems. In today’s world, engineers are mainly concerned with maintaining and improving living standards and quality of life in a society. To ‘engineer’ literally means to “make things happen”. Engineering is about the design and production of useful products and services.

So what is re-engineering?

It means systematic starting over and reinventing the way a firm, or a business process, gets its work done.

Fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business process to achieve dramatic improvements in critical measures of performance such as cost, service, and speed.

What is a home?

A home is a dwelling-place used as a permanent or semi-permanent residence for an individual, family, household or several families in a tribe. It is often a house, apartment, or other building, or alternatively a mobile home, houseboat, yurt or any other portable shelter. A home could also be an institution for people needing professional care or supervision. (e.g. senior’s home or motherless home).

Notice that the topic is not re-engineering your marriage but home. Marriage is a subset of the home. Home includes persons and properties, the nuclear family and the extended family.

Home is all encompassing.

This month I want you to re-engineer your home.

Find ways to improve your relationship with someone in your home. Make things happen. Re-design your thinking process. Are you a parent? Think of ways to make your relationship

with your children better.

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4. Are you a child, learn from the prodigal son, who re-engineered his life and returned home to fresh meals, new wardrobe and a lavish party. “When he finally came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘At home even the hired servants have food enough to spare, and here I am dying of hunger! 18 I will go home to my father and say, “Father, I have sinned against both heaven and you, 19 and I am no longer worthy of being called your son. Please take me on as a hired servant.”’ Lk 15:1718. Re-engineering is about coming to your senses.Are you a husband and all you have seen in your wife are negative things, salty meal, growing tummy (having had children bearing your name) nagging and complaints, re-engineer your mind, see her beauty, see the effort she puts in to make your meal, multitasking to get the home front stable so that you can focus in the office. In the same way, you husbands must give honor to your wives. Treat your wife with understanding as you live together. She may be weaker than you are, but she is your equal partner in God’s gift of new life. Treat her as you should so your prayers will not be hindered.1Pet 3;7NLT.Are you a wife, this is the month to soft pedal to do a rethink, yes you have put so much into the marriage ‘but one thing thou lackest’ (Lk 18:22) ‘that is making the marriage to fall apart’? Find it out. That is re-engineering your home.

Do you constantly provoke your husband; are you submissive or over demanding and overbearing? Or have you gone with the spirit of feminism unknown to yourself? This is the month to re-engineer. This month re-engineer your speech process, giving process, loving process, praying process, relational process and make your home a better place.

Some people say to me Pastor Dada you have stopped practicing engineering. My reply is usually that I may not be practicing Chemical Engineering but I am still practicing

engineering albeit Jesus engineering. From the definition above it is very clear we are all ‘engineers’.

We use some principles and knowledge to produce better products. Whatever skills you want to use this month, scriptural, social, practical and financial, go ahead and use them. Just come up with a better living environment in your marriage, in your home.

Whenever I read Matthew Chapter Five I see Jesus re-engineering the old laws, not just elucidating but improving on them so that you and I can have better social relations within the home and the society.

Read this: You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’[r] and hate your enemy. 44 But I say, love your enemies![s] Pray for those who persecute you! 45 In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven.

For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. 46 If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that?

Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. 47 If you are kind only to your friends, [t] how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. 48 But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

Matthew 5:43-48.

I cannot but think of Jesus re-engineering principles and skills when I think in terms of global religion.

While all of them profess love and peace, it is obvious they are teaching and philosophizing what they did not practice. This is obvious by what their followers are practicing today. Jesus re-engineered religion by teaching the principles of love and peace, but more importantly and practically by giving his life, he improved humanity by dying for them .He did not commit sin yet he died for sinners. He by his life style taught us how to build our homes - die for the other person, not kill the other person so that we can live.

He in simple terms, is saying if you want a better marriage, a better society, it is not by complaining, passing the buck or playing the blame game, it is about ‘dying’ for the person. It is about loving the unlovable,

Cleric jailed for life with hard labour for setting up churches in North Korea (the land where you may be executed for distributing the Bible) A Baptist missionary originally from South Korea has been sentenced to hard labour for life in North Korea for alleged spying and attempting to set up underground churches.

The missionary, named as Kim Jong Uk or Kim Jong Wook dependent on spelling styles, was handed the punishment after admitting to anti-North Korean religious acts and “malignantly hurting the dignity” of the cou ntry’s supreme leadership at a trial on Friday, North Korean state media said.

First arrested in October after crossing into the country from China, he has

become the latest in a line of missionaries who have found themselves on the wrong side of the North’s totalitarian government headed by Kim Jong-un.

The state strictly allows only sanctioned religious services and North Korean defectors have confirmed

in the past that the distribution of Bibles and secret prayer services can mean banishment to a labour camp or execution.

North Korean state media said the missionary was tried Friday and admitted to anti-North Korean continued on p(50)

practicing the agape, unconditional love. He even suggested, sorry, instructed that we should pray for our enemies. Jesus is saying even if you classified your spouse as your enemy, your (mother) in-law as your enemy, the best way of dealing with that person is not to kill him/her with your guns, hate speech , prayers or attitude, but to pray for him/her to live.

See the wickedness in our society today. See the level of senseless killings. Thousands being blown away to premature death. From Syria to Sudan, Afghanistan to Somali, even Democratic Republic of Congo to Nigeria. Millions being maimed by road side bombs. Citizens of the same nation shooting one anotåher even when there is no war. Properties are being destroyed in billions if not trillions of dollars. Sanctity of life is being treated and ignored as if grains of wheat! It is inconceivable that under a religion people will abduct 300 girls and subject them to inhuman treatment, abusing them, threatening them and using them as cheap black mail to demand for hardened criminals. Even with the international outrage and appeal, it is unbelievable that some-

one will still harden their hearts.

It is time to re-engineer our minds and consequently our homes. It is time to bear in mind that these girls are not tubers of yam; they were conceived in someone’s womb, someone travailed to bring them to this world; those children have a destiny that is being put on hold.

Let me be direct, terrorists are human beings.

Boko Haram members are human beings Al-Qaeda members are human beings. They are products of some homes. They sleep and wake up. They eat food.

They wear cloth, they even make videos albeit hate videos. Re-engineering is about rethinking the way we have done things and looking for ways to make it better. Let us practice love as advocated by Jesus.

There are five categories of people to love; God, brethren, enemies, neigbours and strangers. Re-engineering is about strategizing on how I can love these people, if your religion is not helping you to do that you need to surrender your life to Christ. It reminds me of the story of a man who was always coughing. And he was invited to give a speech; he took his cough mixture

along. He could hardly read a sentence without pausing to take a sip of the mixture, and he apologised to the audience once saying ‘sorry, I have to take my medication prescribed by my family doctor eight years ago.’

Then someone from the crowd shouted, ‘if I were in your shoes I would change that family doctor and my medication!’ What is it that you are doing that is not working, in your home or in the office, in your marriage or career, in your church; in the school or in the factory- change it.

And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing.

Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing.

Then the God of peace will be with you. Phil 4:8-9.We surely can make our world better. Let us think about the future of our nation, our children. Reengineer yourself today for a better future for all.

Pastor Amos Dada is a trained engineer with the call of a preacher. Lives in Toronto.416-616-2425

Kim Jong Uk

VISIT OUR NEW WEBSITE: w w w. n i g e r i a n c a n a d i a n n e w s . c a

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

47

RELIGIOUS BOOKS

Pope sacks “Bling Bishop” for luxury lifestyle

Mama B - A Time to Speak

What About Momma’s House?

The Replacement Wife

Bridge to Haven

by Francine Rivers

By Michelle Stimpson (Author), Vicki Prather

by Joseph Jakpa

Pope Francis has indefinitely suspended Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst of Diocese of Limburg known as "The Bling Bishop" after controversies surrounding his lifestyle .This came after the 53 year old Bishop spent a whooping $42 million on a luxury residence and reportedly dropped $15,000 on his bathtub alone.

The quarters includes a museum, conference halls, a chapel and private apartments, The project was approved by his predecessor and was initially valued at an estimated $7.5 million, but the final bill rose to

$42 million, including a $1 million a garden. Last year over 4,000 people signed an open letter criticising him for using Church offerings to fund his luxury lifestyle.

He is also accused of giving false statements in court about an expensive 1st class flight he took to India to visit poor communities. Pope Francis decided to have him step-down pending the conclusion of investigations. The Vatican didn't say how long he would spend away from the diocese of Limburg but it refused calls to remove him permanently.

Source: com

The good folks at Mt. Zion Baptist are doing their best to keep the church flowing smoothly while Pastor Phillips takes time off to be with his wife in her final days.

Beatrice "Mama B" Jackson even opens her home so that the women's groups can continue to meet faithfully after some “rascal” stole the copper from the church’s air conditioning unit. ….

THE BITTER ROOT

nigerianewsday.

continued from p(17) How to Simplify Your Life in... your overall burden each day.

Hold tightly to this idea if you are considering setting up any regular or repeated commitment and think long and hard about all the things you would have to give up in order to take this new thing on.

The Automated No Saying no is one of the most socially awkward things for people to do. Perhaps the most socially acceptable way most of us do this is when we are on vacation or know we will be out of the office: “I will be out of the office from X date to Y date. If this is urgent call me on Z.” We can use a similar bounceback when we need to concentrate. In this case the bounceback can read: “I am off the grid from 1-4PM today working on a priority project. If this is urgent call me on X.” There are a growing number of apps and services that do this. AwayFind, for example, sends an auto-reply that includes a way to contact you (in an emergency) through a text. There are three advantages: First the person has to decide if it is worth the extra

effort, second you only have to respond with a text-message length reply, and third it ensures you can be found just in case something actually is essential.

Frictionless Tomorrow Think through tomorrow’s schedule from the moment you will wake up until you go to bed. Look at each activity. Identify any way you can make it a little easier through preparation. If you are planning to exercise, get your running clothes out so when you wake up in the morning, you won’t have to spend time digging through your closet. The idea here is to make doing the essential activity almost easier than not doing it.

I encourage you to experiment with Essentialism. Prototype ways of working. Try out these ideas - and many others. Live by design rather than by default. Use what works. Eliminate the rest.

Greg McKeown is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less.

His “why” is inspiring people to design their lives and careers in order to achieve their essential mission.

Tiffany L. Warren Michelle Stimpson (Author), April Dishon Barker (Author), Karen McCollum Rodgers (Editor)

Katrice, Montrel and Junior are siblings who couldn't be more different, but they all have one thing in common: plans for Momma's house.

Katrice was Momma's faithful caregiver until the day she died and wants to make sure that Momma's last wishes for her house are met. Montrel needs the house sold as soon as possible to get out from under the mountain of debt his gold-digging wife has him buried under. Junior needs a place to lay his head in peace, away from the thousands of dollars in back child support………..

Five years after his beloved wife's death, wealthy Quentin Chambers still hasn't returned to the church or his music ministry. Even his home is now devoid of music, and without his attention, Quentin's five children are getting out of control—until his mother steps in and hires him a live-in nanny. Montana is pretty, compassionate, church-going, and even has a beautiful singing voice.. . .

LA Uncion/the Anointing

To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra.

Even fewer know the price she’s paid to finally feel like she’s somebody.

To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven.

Zeke and his son, Joshua—Abra’s closest friend— watch her grow into an exotic beauty.

God Chasers: Pursuing the Lover of Your Soul

Matters Of The Heart: Stop trying to fix the old - let God give you something new

by Benny Hinn Bestselling author Benny Hinn offers a natural, exciting sequel to Good Morning, Holy Spirit.e-changing experience with each member of the Godhead--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--and introduces them to the power of God so they can act in that power.

By Hezekiah Fatoki Life is like a tree. As a living thing, tree has the capacity of fruitfulness, but a tree without root is dead. Bitter root is not so at the beginning of life, but while a man slept his enemy came and fertilize his heart with destructive thoughts.

In this book, you are call to the path of duty where there is no death but eternal life and to assure you of the hope that is in Christ Jesus which transforms as well as judges the life with bitter root. The story therein is set forth in the similitude of revelation, but presented in the drama style.

By Juanita Bynum God began to deal with me...As the tears rolled down my face, God said, You are thinking like a man. You are always concerned about the outward appearance...but what is the condition of your heart toward Me and toward My people? I sat there confused and said to the Lord, 'MY HEART?'...

This groundbreaking message will open your eyes to the truth about your own hear

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

FATAL VIRTUES: The Color Red

By Bo Sebastian

by Tommy Tenny

Does your heart yearn to have an intimate relationship with your Lord? Perhaps you long to draw closer to your heavenly Father, but you don't know how or where to start. The God Chasers Expanded Edition will help you begin a journey that will change your life.

District Attorney, Mary Elizabeth Trattoria, receives a package containing her brother, Gio's, finger, the owner of a world famous Italian restaurant, Trattoria. The confirmed death of her brother launches a desperate attempt to get to the bottom of rumors of her family's affiliation with drug trafficking, before her close ties to the law uncover the family's secrets. Mary Elisabeth sacrifices her personal life, her family's love, and finally her spiritual virtue

48

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

SPORTS Tanzania jails 4 Nigerian Footballers

by Joseph Jakpa

Four Nigerian footballers were sentenced to sixmonths jail by Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s court after pleading guilty of illegal stay in the country.

Kisutu is an administrative ward in the Ilala district of the Dar es Salaam Region of Tanzania.

Andrew Okoro and Chiku Odia appeared before Magistrate Frank Moshi and after pleading guilty they were each fined 100,000 Shillings or serve a six-month jail term. The duo opted to jail terms after failing to pay the stated fine.

Two other Nigerians Chikereke Messaiah and Onyekwu Daniel also had to serve six-month jail after each failed to pay fine to

the tune of 50,000 Shillings having pleaded guilty of illegal presence in the country. Magistrate Gabriel Mirumbe had no option other than to hand them the jail sentence.

The accused Okoro claimed that he came to Tanzania for trials with relegated top flight side of Ashanti United but would not make a breakthrough.

Okoro claimed that he was supported to gain access into the country by his manager Aishi Shaban who took his passport and $500 before flying to South Africa.

Accused Odia who was a football player with Mwanza-based first division club of Toto Africa said he lost his passport and reported to the police station only to be advised to check with his embassy for assistance.

Reading the facts, prosecutor from immigration department Patrick Ngayomela told the court that the accused admitted after being arrested that they were to join Ashanti United but their bid failed to materialise.

He added that the accused Odia was in the country since 2012 and he had been playing for Toto Africa but since the team was relegated he has failed to secure another registration.

According to the charge sheet, the accused Okoro and Odia were arrested at Shayo Guest House in Tandika while Messaiah and Daniel were arrested at TIG Church in Chang’ombe surburb.

Source-nigerianewsday. com

Legal Look: Donald Sterling and the sale of The Clippers

By Eric Macramalla, TSN legal Analyst

It has been announced that the Los Angeles Clippers have been sold to former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for $2 billion. Don Sterling purchased the San Diego Clippers in 1981 for $12 million before moving them to Los Angeles in 1984 (without the permission of the league, by the way).

The team had a number of suitors, including Oprah Winfrey, David Geffen, Larry Ellison, Magic John-

son (known to many for his show The Magic Hour), Grant Hill, Sean Combs, Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Matt Damon (but no Ben).

While a deal has been announced, the sale of the team is not finalized. The key issue that will need to be addressed before the team can be sold is the likelihood of Don Sterling objecting to the sale of the team by way of a court action.

Contrary to what you may have heard, the Clippers are not owned by Sterling personally. The team is actually owned by the Sterling

family trust, which would include his wife Shelley. Assuming that Don Sterling has control over the trust, he would be the one with the sole authority to sign off on the sale.

However, ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne has reported that Don Sterling has been declared by “medical experts” as “mentally incapacitated.”

As a result, his wife Shelly has obtained sole power over the trust. A court, though, will generally hold a competency hearing and make that ruling. Given the speed at which this sale continued on p(50)

Adam Lallana: Liverpool make final £25m offer for Saints captain

By Ben Smith

Liverpool have made a final offer of £25m for Southampton midfielder Adam Lallana.

The Reds want to complete the deal swiftly or they will consider moving on to alternative transfer targets.

Saints captain Lallana is due to fly to the United States with England on Sunday ahead of next month’s World Cup. The 26-year-old played 73 minutes of England’s

3-0 friendly win over Peru

at Wembley on Friday, his fourth senior appearance for his country.

Lallana scored nine goals in 38 Premier League appearances in 2013-14 for Southampton, who lost manager Mauricio Pochettino to Tottenham on 28 May. Saints finished eighth with 56 points and Lallana’s form earned him a place in the Professional Footballers’ Association Premier League team of the year, along with Luke continued on p(50)

Joseph Minala: Italian Court Confirms Lazio Player Is 17,Not 42 Joseph Minala, the Lazio youth teamer, did not lie about his age, the Italian Football Association (FIGC) has ruled.

A report earlier this year stated the Cameroonian was 42 and not 17 as he had claimed to be, which prompted an investigation from the league’s federal prosecutor.

“The investigation did not

show any need for disciplinary action,” said a statement on the FIGC’s website.

Minala joined the Stadio Olimpico outfit last year, making his Serie A debut in the 2-0 home win over Sampdoria on April 6.

Source:www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Joseph Minala

The Gambia to appeal to Caf against suspension The Gambia are to appeal to the Confederation of African Football against their two-year suspension for deliberately falsifying players’ ages.

At the start of May, Caf banned The Gambia from all its competitions - including the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations - after ruling that Ali Sowe, born in June 1994, had been found to have registered in 2012 in the Confederation Cup with an identical passport number but a birth date going back to 1988.

Gambian clubs have also been banned from playing in Caf ’s continental competitions for two years.

President of The Gambia Football Federation, Mustapha Kebbeh, has insisted

there has been no wrongdoing.

“It was purely an administrative error from years ago I am sure there is some misunderstanding somewhere.

We have written to Caf to explain to them and appeal against the decision against The Gambia,” he told BBC Sport.

“The ban is something we are not happy with and it’s a decision that we think should not be inflicted on The Gambia.”

However, Caf told BBC Sport that there is no appeals procedure because the decision was taken by its executive committee, adding that The Gambia would either have to admit guilt and seek a pardon or take their case to the Court of Arbitra-

tion for Sport.

When BBC Sport relayed this information to Kebbeh, he declared his belief that it would not be necessary for The Gambia to pursue either of those options.

“We are going ahead to explain to our parent body in Africa and to show them all the evidence that there was not a deliberate intention in any way by The Gambia Football Federation or The Gambia to incorrectly certify age,” he said.

“We will show Caf all the evidence and I’m sure it will then be better placed to accept our explanation and reconsider its position. We are confident the suspension will be lifted.”

Source: www.bbc.com

‘It’s not about colour... it’s about hard work’

By Mohammed Allie

In leading Mamelodi Sundowns to their first championship since 2007, Pitso Mosimane has become the first black coach to win South Africa’s Premiership since its inception in 1996.

While Mosimane prefers to downplay the issue of race and instead highlight his merits as a coach, it is undeniable that he has struck a big blow for black coaches who have battled to win the confidence of the owners of the country’s bigger clubs.

“I see it in two ways,” the 49-year-old former South Africa international and national team coach told BBC Sport.

“For me it’s not about being a black coach win-

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Pitso Mosimane

ning the league, it’s about a coach who works hard, a coach who does his job, who understands the local league, a coach who also assesses and respects the game and makes the players work hard.

“On the other hand, how many black coaches deserve to coach Orlando Pirates or Kaizer Chiefs or Mamelodi Sundowns? Not many.

“It’s a fact, we don’t want to talk about it but it’s a fact. This situation happens where black coaches are never given chances. We are given teams that need to be

saved from relegation and all the European coaches and even the local white coaches get the chance before us.

“Let’s be honest, I came last, I’m not the first. I’ve got 13 years’ experience as a coach but there are I guys that I played with in the Bafana Bafana team, they’ve been coaches before us.

“I work for a team that has an owner, Patrice Motsepe, who is also the president and has a huge profile as a black person and what he has done in business.

“He believes a local black coach who grew up in the townships, like him, can also turn around things at Sundowns. The man gave me an opportunity and I’m humbled. Winning the title is the only way to reward people who have continued on p(50)

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

49

TRAVEL The most expensive (and cheapest) places in the world

By Tommy Stubbington | The Wall Street Journal What’s the world’s most expensive city for a pint of beer?

How about a pair of jeans? Or a date?

Sadly for French beer quaffers, Swiss fashionistas, and romantically-inclined Brits— the answers are Paris, Zurich, and London.

Deutsche Bank has compared the price of everything, everywhere (OK, not quite), so you don’t have to. And for a third year in a row, the priciest country in the world is Australia (that’s of the 19 countries included in the survey).

If you’re looking for the lowest prices overall, head to India. A weaker rupee has helped it remain the least expensive major economy despite persistently high inflation. Among

developed countries, the U.S. is easiest on the wallet. Brazil is costly by emerging-world standards.

But the overall rankings mask some sharp differences for individual products. A day’s car rental in China costs $31.90, a mere 26% of the price in the U.S. But Levi’s jeans, Adidas trainers, or an iPhone 5 are all cheaper in the States.

Moscow’s five-star hotel rooms are ruinous—at $905.60 a night, more than double the New York equivalent—and it’s the costliest city for a weekend getaway. But public transport in the Russian capital is a snip.

The survey also tracks the cost of living in major cities.

Tokyo, by far the most expensive back in 2001, is now cheaper than a number of cities including Melbourne, Geneva, Oslo and Caracas.

Zurich deserves another mention for the eye-watering cost of its hairdressers—at $60.47, a haircut there is 15 times pricier than in Mumbai. Indian cities are also the cheapest for a date.

The widest disparities are in the cost of basic health insurance, with nowhere else on earth remotely close to U.S. prices. Australia is in second place at 34% of the U.S. figure.

In the U.K. its 21%. India, Indonesia, and the Philippines are the cheapest at just 1%.

The price of a date in London includes cabs, burgers, drinks, and a trip to the movies. Cheapskates could plump for a long walk along the river instead. Just don’t get too ambitious about buying a riverfront apartment.

Source: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com

The most hated U.S. airline is also the most profitable

By Justin Bachman Spirit Airlines (SAVE) inspires a special kind of wrath among the American traveling public: It’s the industry leader in customer complaints by a wide margin. Over the last five years, Spirit’s rate of complaints to the Department of Transportation was three times higher than other U.S. airlines, according to a report (PDF) released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund.

This is not the first time Spirit has been dinged for customer dissatisfaction. Last year it was the lowest-scoring carrier in a Consumer Reports survey of 16,000 readers. “Poor service, poor communication, poor quality,” a commenter at airline-rating firm Skytrax wrote this week. “You couldn’t even make up how bad they are.”

The loathing has also inspired a dedicated Twitter (TWTR) feed: @hatespiritair.

Its customers will probably find this annoying, too: In spite of the rancor it inspires, Spirit has become the most profitable U.S. airline in terms of its operating margin and return on invested capital. Spirit’s 16.2 percent margin is highest among U.S. public airlines, as is its 26 percent return on capital, according to data compiled

by Bloomberg. Allegiant Travel (ALGT), the nation’s other ultralow-cost airline, has the second-best operating margin—12.7 percent—followed

by Alaska Airlines (ALK) and Delta Air Lines (DAL). Spirit shares have gained 439 percent since its mid-2011 public offering at $12.

“Customer complaints generally have a loose but inverse negative correlation to return on invested capital,” Wolfe Research analyst Hunter Keay says, noting that well-liked JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Virgin America, and Southwest Airlines (LUV) lag financially.

“The commitment to make the customer happy costs money.”

Keay says the low-cost model rightly treats airfare as a utility. “There really does not need to be a service component attached to consuming airfare.”

To that end, Spirit, along with other ultralow-cost carriers, has done all it can to drive ticket prices as close to zero as possible. The point is to attract new customers with low fares, then squeeze them into a spartan, cramped cabin and charge them for any and all amenities: water, carry-on bags, seat assignments, and the like.

Spirit’s planes pack far more seats in the cabin than do other airlines, 178 on an Airbus (AIR:FP) A320—that’s 28 more than on the same plane at United Airlines (UAL) or JetBlue. And Spirit’s seats don’t recline.

On the flip side of this financial success, Spirit is still growing rapidly. It plans to almost triple its 54-jet fleet by 2021. A cheap fare may be able to lure first-time customers, but it cannot necessarily keep them.

Over time, if travelers increasingly dislike the experience, it’s possible that Spirit’s financial performance could stall. On the other hand, airfares are rising across the board (consolidation will do that), and plenty of people may decide that saving $100 or more is worth a little temporary indignity.

“Many of the DOT complaints about Spirit are driven by our customers not fully understanding that we offer unbundled fares that let them control how much they spend,” spokeswoman DeAnne Gabel wrote in an e-mail on Thursday. The airline has declared 2014 its “Year of the Customer.” The goal, she says, is “to reduce complaints by helping customers learn about how to fly Spirit to go where they want and keep more money in their pocket.” Spirit isn’t an airline for everyone, but so far it hasn’t had to be.

Source: www.businessweek. com FOX News Videos - Casey Stegall reports from Dallas, Texas

Canadian air travel changes: New planes, full flights, less service The federal government recently announced two new rules that are set to change the way Canadians experience the evolving world of air travel.

Even for frequent flyers, there often seems to be something new at the airport on every trip — from check-in machines to baggage charges.

Here are five recent changes that have affected the airline industry, and five more that are on the horizon.

Change is in the air 1. Bigger, better jets Air Canada recently showed off the first of the 37 Boeing 787 Dreamliners it purchased to great fanfare. The state-ofthe-art jet is said to be quieter, lighter and 20 per cent more fuel efficient than its predecessors, while still carrying more cargo and providing a smoother ride for the some 300 passengers on board.

Porter Airlines, meanwhile, is hoping to fly the Bombardier CS100 (dubbed the whisper jet) in and out of the Toronto Island airport.

Add the gigantic Airbus A380 — currently only flying between Toronto and Dubai — and a host of smaller, sleeker jets and turboprops and you have a Canadian market served by some expensive new machines.

2. Fuller flights If you think your odds of sitting next to an empty seat have gotten worse, you’re right. Rick Seaney, CEO of the Texas-based air travel site farecompare.com, says that in the last decade most airlines have gone from passenger load averages of 70 per cent to over 90 per cent.

Airlines once had a “grow or die” mentality, Seaney says, which led them to add as many routes and flights as possible, regardless of load. Today airlines are trying to maximize profits by squeezing passengers onto fewer flights. The partially full plane? “They’re done with that.”

3. Service goes slack Bruce Cran, the president of the Consumers’ Association of Canada (CAC) and a frequent flyer himself, says the service on airplanes is getting “less and less acceptable,” for many Canadians.

“Airlines seem to be going for the absolute bare bones of what they can offer passengers,” Cran says.

The consumers’ group fields a steady stream of complaints from flyers about everything from access to meals and

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

drinks, to the abundance of passenger announcements.

Cran says the group has even received complaints from people who fly business class.

4. Credit cards on flights It might seem obvious, but the ability to pay with plastic while in the sky has changed the culture in the cabin.

“The role of the flight attendant has changed,” says Karl Moore, an aviation expert and professor at the Desautels faculty of management at McGill University.

As airlines try everything they can to make money, Moore says, flight attendants are increasingly tasked with selling both meals and duty free goods.

The ability to pay anywhere has also opened up what Seaney calls the “sushi menu” of flight amenities — like the ability to pay for an emergency aisle seat.

5. Paperless world Mobile phones are driving change in the aviation world.

Most airlines now email flight itineraries with embedded QR codes that can be scanned at the gate.

Meanwhile, a range of apps can provide instant updates on your flight status.

Even the customs areas have turned to self-serve terminals in some airports, forcing travellers to enter their passport and other data before ever stepping foot in front of an actual border security agent.

Changes on the horizon 1. Fewer flight attendants Transport Canada plans to change its rules governing how many flight attendants must be on each flight from one flight attendant for every 40 passengers to one for every 50.

Flight attendants say the move puts passengers at risk in the event of an emergency, but federal officials say the change matches U.S. and European requirements. WestJet and Sunwing have already been granted exemptions to use the 1:50 ratio by Transportation Minister Lisa Raitt.

2. Electronic devices OK’d Transport Canada also wants to eliminate that brief period of time you’re asked to stow electronic devices for takeoff and landing.

The transport minister called it “good news for air passengers and it’s good news for the federal aviation industry.”

Passengers will still have to

switch their phones to flight mode, which turns off transmitting functions, but could theoretically type throughout takeoff if they like. It’s now up to airlines to change their cabin rules, something WestJet said it hopes to do by early summer.

3. Wi-Fi-enabled flights?

The technology ruling likely foreshadows the addition of in-cabin Wi-Fi, something that’s already commonplace on major U.S. airlines.

Matt Nicholls, the editor of Canadian aviation magazine Wings, says it’s about time this country’s airliners caught up.

“You don’t want to be offering an antiquated service, because people won’t want to fly with you,” Nicholls says.

“I think this is a good thing for the Canadian airline industry.”

4. Onboard rules Though Nicholls says the new rules surrounding technology will likely be wellreceived by Canadians, he cautioned they could be a “double-edged sword” for flight crews, who will have to change their procedures to deal with passengers more focused on their phones than important safety details.

The work of flight crews, he says, is “way more complicated than the general public even knows.”

Nicholls adds that Canadian airlines will have to be more proactive with their public relations if passengers are able to post on social media platforms mid-flight.

5. Airports of the future Many people dread airports.

They’re expensive, full of lines and can be a nightmare to navigate. But some of the world’s most advanced airports might leave you pleasantly surprised.

Copenhagen Airport lets you plan your route through the airport using an online map featuring 360-degree views, and is hoping to use Google Glass to guide passengers to their gates in the future.

At major airports in Japan and South Korea they’re aiming to automate the flow of passengers to the point where there’s no longer a need for airport staff at all.

And in London’s Gatwick Airport, you can use a virtual grocery store run by Tesco supermarket to have food delivered to your home when you return.

CBC.CA

50

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

continued from p(48) Legal Look: Donald Sterling and the... has been handled, it would be a surprise to learn that such a hearing was held.

Rather, it seems he may have undergone a psychological assessment.

As a result, should Sterling not agree to sell the team, he could turn around and sue the league. If he is indeed not mentally incapacitated, he would argue that his wife Shelley did not have the authority to unilaterally sign off on the sale of the team.

Sterling could also argue proportionality: the punishment doesn’t fit the crime. While his comments were disturbing, he would argue that they were made in private, illegally recorded and nothing unlawful was said. As a result, compelling the disposition of the team is too severe a penalty.

As far as the NBA, it has reasonable arguments to make to strip the Sterling family trust of its ownership stake in the Clippers.

Bottom line is that the NBA Constitution provides that an owner cannot do anything that “adversely” affects the league. With sponsors, players and fans all reacting negatively to Sterling’s comments, the NBA is arguing that his comments adversely impacted the league’s economics and reputation. Remember the focus is not on what Sterling said, but on the impact his comments had on the

league. A fine distinction but a distinction nonetheless (and one that allows me to pay my mortgage).

I’ve also been asked whether Sterling could argue that he shouldn’t be forced to sell the team because he was mentally incapacitated at the time he made the comments. This defence was not raised in his written submissions related to his June 3 hearing where the league will look to strip him of his ownership stake. However, that does not preclude the introduction of this defence at a later date.

That being said, such a defence would be difficult to make out. The NBA Constitution doesn’t care if you intended to do something, but only that is was done.

The NBA Constitution provides that an owner cannot do anything that will “affect” the league “adversely”.

The introduction of the term “affect” and the absence of language requiring intent or a certain mental state of mind make a mental incapacity defence challenging. So even if Sterling did not have the intention of making those comments on account of cognitive impairment, the league’s rules focus on the impact or result of those comments.

On the other hand, if Sterling does not oppose the sale of the team, the NBA will want him to sign

continued from p(48) Adam Lallana: Liverpool make final...

a release waiving all claims against the league arising from this case. Basically, the league will want his guarantee he won’t sue. Since a lawsuit could be worth billions, this release is pretty important.

There has been some talk that Shelley may want to stay on as a part-owner.

The NBA wants the Sterling name permanently disassociated from the team so that won’t fly. The league will therefore want an assurance from Shelley that she is out.

The hearing to strip the Sterling family of its ownership of the team (or as the league calls it, its NBA “membership”) is scheduled for Tuesday June 3. At the hearing, the league will need 22 of 29 owners to vote to remove Sterling. Assuming the league has the votes (a pretty safe assumption), Sterling would be removed as owner immediately following the vote and Commissioner Adam Silver would take over control of the team. It’s that quick.

In light of the potential sale of the team to Ballmer, the league is likely to postpone the June 3 hearing if it has assurances from Sterling that he will not oppose the imminent sale the team.

If, however, the indication is that Sterling is prepared to fight, then expect the hearing to proceed on June 3.

Source: www.tsn.ca

continued from p(46) Cleric jailed for life with hard labour for setting.. religious acts and “malignantly hurting the dignity” of the country’s supreme leadership, a reference to the ruling Kim family. The rival Koreas have different English spelling styles for Korean names, so the North called the missionary Kim Jong Uk, but Seoul has previously referred to him as Kim Jung Wook.

Christian missionaries have been drawn over the years to totalitarian North Korea, which tolerates only strictly sanctioned religious services. North Korean defectors have said that the distribution of Bibles and secret prayer services can mean banishment to a labour camp or execution.

North Korea said in a dispatch dated Friday but released early Saturday that Kim had defence counsel, but the details of the trial could not be independently confirmed.

North Korea does not have an independent judiciary, does not provide fair trials and imposes rigid controls over many aspects of its citizens’ lives, including in religious matters, according to

the U.S. State Department.

The unidentified North Korean defence attorney said that Kim “sincerely repented of his crimes and apologised for them” and requested that the court commute the death sentence demanded by prosecutors. The North said that an expert produced “evidence such as religious books, memory cards, sex CDs and spying devices carried by the accused for criminal purposes.”

North Korea said Kim was arrested last October after crossing into the country from China. Kim appeared on North Korean TV in February and said he received assistance from South Korea’s intelligence agency and apologised for committing “anti-state” crimes. Past detainees have later recanted after appearing at staged news conferences. South Korea has denied any spy links to Kim. Last year, North Korea sentenced American tour operator Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labour for committing “hostile acts” against the country. Bae, also a Christian missionary,

was detained while leading a group on a tour of North Korea in 2012.

Earlier this year, an Australian, John Short, was arrested in Pyongyang for allegedly trying to distribute Christian materials. He was later released after he apologised.

Kim had been based largely in Dandong, in China, since 2007, according to a friend in Seoul, Joo Dongsik.

Kim helped North Korean defectors get to South Korea via Thailand, Laos and other countries, said Joo, also a Baptist.

In August 2012, a group of 12 North Korean women were caught by Chinese authorities while they were at Kim’s shelter and sent back to North Korea. His desire to find out what happened to them and learn about a North Korean food shortage led him to enter the country last October, Joo said.

Kim was born in 1964, Joo said, making him 49 or 50.

•Pieced together from reports in The Independent (Britain) and CTV News (Canada). Photo shows Kim Jong Uk or Kim Jong Wook.

Source News Express

Shaw.

Lallana, who was spotted

by Southampton playing for Bournemouth’s centre of excellence, is wanted by a Liverpool side who narrowly missed out on their first Premier League title in 24 years.

Brendan Rodgers’ team finished two points behind eventual champions Manchester City, who won their second title in three years.

Lallana came through the Southampton academy, which also produced

Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and has become an integral member of a side that achieved its highest Premier League points total this season.

Southampton must pay 25% of any transfer fee for Lallana to Bournemouth, who sold the midfielder to his current club.

The Saints turned down Liverpool’s opening offer of £20m after indicating that they wanted to end up with that amount from any deal themselves.

Liverpool’s latest bid would leave Southampton with £18.75m with the remaining £6.25m going to Bournemouth.

Southampton and England striker Rickie Lambert will have a medical at Liverpool on Saturday after the clubs agreed a fee of about £4m plus add-ons.

Lambert will also be part of the England World Cup squad that leaves on Sunday for friendlies against Ecuador and Honduras. www.bbc.com 30 May 2014

continued from p(48) ‘It’s not about colour... vision like Patrice Motsepe.”

Motsepe, a mining magnate with a fortune estimated by Forbes magazine to be at $2.6 billion, has pumped millions into the club which has enabled them to buy the star players they covet in their attempt to dominate South African football.

But over the past seven seasons Mosimane’s seven predecessors, including big names like former France coach Henri Michel, Bulgarian legend Hristo Stoichkov and former Dutch midfield maestro Johan Neeskens, all failed to deliver and were ultimately forced out by fan pressure.

Mosimane is quick to assert that while black coaches need to be given more opportunities they should

also prove themselves.

“We need to do the work also. We should not think this is affirmative action and we need to be given a chance as if football owes the black coaches a position. I do the work, my players will tell you I work very hard,” he said.

“People say it’s easy to win with Sundowns (because of their financial strength) but why couldn’t they win the league for the last seven years with the players that they bought and with the money that’s been put into the team? What’s the difference? I work hard, I don’t play golf.”

Steve Komphela, a former Bafana Bafana captain and caretaker coach, has himself developed into one of the league’s leading coaches, having taken modest

Free State Stars to respectable mid-table finishes and this season turning around a struggling Maritzburg United.

He believes Mosimane’s achievement can only boost the confidence of aspiring young black coaches.

Komphela told BBC Sport: “Pitso’s success sends a big message that it is not about the colour of your skin but your character and the brains behind the technical matters.

“Maybe this will give the bigger clubs the confidence to grant others an opportunity and those given such an opportunity must grab it.”

Sundowns and Mosimane have shown what can be achieved when the right man meets the right opportunity.

continued from p(12) Countries with the most billionaires

impact on Hong Kong’s 3,135 ultra-rich people.

The total wealth of this group dropped around 11 percent, while their numbers fell 2 percent to 470 between August 2011 and July 2012, keeping with a trend seen across Asia.

Hong Kong’s richest man, 84-year-old billionaire Li Ka-shing (pictured) — who is also the richest individual in Asia and the ninth richest in the world — saw his fortune decline. Li Ka-shing’s net worth fell to $22 billion in May from $25.5 billion in March this year, according to Forbes. The majority of Hong Kong’s top 10 billionaires are involved in the property sector and have in recent years benefited from mainland Chinese demand for the island’s real estate. But a slowdown in China this year has dampened demand, weighing on the city’s property companies.

6. Russia Billionaire count: 97 Total wealth:

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

$380 billion Russia comes in at sixth for the most billionaires, despite its ultra-rich population seeing the biggest erosion in wealth this year among the countries in this list.

Billionaires account for 8.5 percent of the country’s ultra-rich individuals, or those worth $30 million and more, but control more than 60 percent of the group’s combined wealth. The number of billionaires in Russia increased by 17 from last year, but their total wealth fell by nearly 29 percent.

For ultra-rich individuals, their combined wealth fell nearly 15 percent to $605 billion between August 2011 and July 31 this year, and their numbers fell by 145 to 1,145. This marks a decline of more than 11 percent, which is higher than Europe’s average decline of 1.9 percent.

This year’s drop in wealth creation is a complete reversal from last year, when its capital city Moscow was called the billion-

aire capital of the world

by Forbes. The magazine reported that the country’s billionaire count had jumped from 62 to 101 between 2010 and 2011, with 79 of them in Moscow.

The commodities boom that has been fueling this wealth has since softened, leading to a decline in wealth creation. Russia’s richest, steel tycoon Vladimir Lisin (pictured), saw his fortune drop by $8.1 billion in the year to March 2012. Lower steel prices led to a 45 percent fall in his firm Novolipetsk Steel’s share price, according to Forbes.

5. India Billionaire count: 109 Total wealth: $190 billion India, together with its BRIC peers — Brazil, Russia, and China — makes a big part of the top 10, highlighting the scale of wealth being created in emerging economies. Asia’s third largest economy, together with Japan and China, accounts for about 75 percent of the

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506 region’s ultra-rich population. Billionaires in India make up 1.4 percent of the total ultra-rich, or those with $30 million in assets, and control more than 20 percent of the combined fortune of this group. On average, Indian billionaires are worth close to $1.7 billion each.

They have seen their total wealth decline over 7 percent in 2012 from last year, while their population has fallen by more than 5 percent. The lower numbers reflect a broader trend of declining wealth in India, as its ultra-rich population saw the biggest drop in the world with 485 people leaving the ranks of the ultra-wealthy. They also lost nearly 6 percent of their total fortune, compared to the previous year. Some of the major factors behind the decline in wealth are the volatility in the Indian stock market and the depreciation in the Indian rupee. Slowing economic growth and infrastructure bottlenecks have also plagued investment in the country. The Indian economy grew at its slowest pace in almost three years in the second quarter of this year.

4. Germany Billionaire count: 137 Total wealth: $550 billion Germany is the only euro zone country to make the list of the most billionaires, bucking the trend of declining wealth in the majority of the bloc’s nations. The country’s 137 billionaires account for less than 1 percent of the ultra-high net worth group, but control nearly 27 percent of the total fortune in the segment. The ultra-rich are those that have $30 million or more in assets. German billionaires are worth $4 billion each on average, and the three cities with the maximum number of ultra-rich are Munich, Dusseldorf, and Hamburg. A nearly three percent fall in its equity market and a 13 percent drop in the value of the euro during the period between August 2011 and July 2012 did little to knock off wealth creation in Germany, according to Wealth-X. In Europe’s largest economy, the combined wealth of the ultrarich group grew by 5.3 percent from the previous year, even as their numbers fell 1.4 percent.

3. United Kingdom Billionaire count:

140 Total wealth: $430 billion The United Kingdom has the largest number of billionaires in Europe, beating Germany by three, but it still lags in terms of total wealth of the group by $120 billion.

Its billionaires account for 1.3 percent of the ultrarich population. They also hold nearly 33 percent of the total fortune of this group of ultra-rich. On average, these billionaires are worth $3.1 billion each. The ultra-rich’s wealth grew by nearly 4 percent compared to the previous year, while its numbers grew by 0.2 percent. The U.K.’s ultra-rich population has benefited from the perception that the country is a safe haven for wealth amid the region’s uncertain economic conditions. More than a third of U.K.’s ultra-rich comprises non-domiciled residents. There is also diversity in U.K.’s ultrawealthy population with Caucasians making up almost 62 percent, followed by South Asians at 28 percent, and people of Chinese, North Asian, and Middle Eastern descent accounting for more than 8 percent, according to Wealth-X. The real estate sector has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of foreign wealth. 65 percent of the Central London office market were purchased by foreign investors in 2011, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

However, the prospect of a recession this year and a worsening euro zone crisis could reverse the current wealth inflows from risk-averse Europeans, according to Wealth-X. 2. China Billionaire count: 147 Total wealth: $380 billion China ranks second in the world when it comes to the number of billionaires, but in terms of total wealth, the country is behind Germany and the U.K., tying with Russia for fourth spot.

Billionaires account for 1.3 percent of those with $30 million or more in the world’s second biggest economy, while they control over 24 percent of the group’s $1.58 trillion wealth. On average, Chinese billionaires are worth almost $2.6 billion each and the top five cities with the most ultra-rich people are Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou. In the past year, however,

Chinese billionaires have lost nearly a third of their wealth , down to $380 billion from $540 billion in the previous year. The slump in wealth reflects the overall trend in the region, with Asia’s ultra-rich seeing the biggest drop in wealth compared to anywhere else in the world.

Poor performance of China’s equity market, with the Shanghai Composite Index falling 20 percent over August 2011 to July 2012, was one of the main reasons for the drop in wealth. Individuals holding manufacturing assets and real estate in China’s coastal provinces were the hardest hit, as factory production moved inland because of high labor costs, according to Wealth-X. United States Billionaire count: 480 Total wealth: $2.05 trillion The United States still leads the world with its billionaire tally, far outpacing its closest competitor China with a whopping 333 more billionaires. Despite the economic headwinds, the U.S. minted 25 new billionaires in the past year -- a 5.5 percent increase from the previous year.

Their combined wealth also grew nearly 8 percent from the previous year to $2.05 trillion. American billionaires account for less than 1 percent of the ultra-rich population, but control nearly a quarter of the group’s total fortune of $8.28 trillion. On average, these billionaires are worth $4.3 billion each.

The country’s ultra-rich saw a more than 3 percent increase in wealth, while the group’s population grew by nearly 4 percent, compared to last year — outpacing U.S. GDP growth. California is the number one state for the ultra-wealthy, followed by New York, Texas, Florida, and Illinois. A major driver of wealth for the ultra-rich was the U.S. equity markets, with the S&P 500 index up over 7 percent between August 2011 and July 2012. As a result, 2,250 people joined the ranks of the ultrarich club in the past year.

Despite the fast pace of growth in America’s ultrarich numbers, Wealth-X projects that Asia’s ultrawealthy population will surpass that of the U.S. by 2025, while their combined wealth will overtake them by 2020. https://ca.finance. yahoo.com

51

continued from p(11) How to become an overnight... attention in the party, make a lot of noise. Abuse Tinubu on the pages of the newspapers and call Buhari an idiot.

Insist that Goodluck Jonathan should not only run for re-election unopposed in 2015, there should be a constitutional amendment to make him a life-president. This is a tell-tale sign that you are hungry; and the powers-that-be will soon invite you to “come and chop.”

As a distinguished member of this great party, the opportunities open for you to set yourself up for life are considerable. For example, you can start collecting billions for petroleum subsidy and simply not import any petrol whatsoever. You can get the government to change all car license-plates nationwide; and then become the sole supplier of the new license-plates.

You can ask the president to make you the sole importer and distributor of diesel for the entire country.

Of course, this might also entail that you become the chairman of his re-election campaign, to which you duly make a handsome contribution. Alternatively, you can ask to be chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority.

Nobody will bat an eyelid when, within a matter of months, you have a fleet of cars, have two or three houses in Asokoro, and own four hotels in Dubai.

You may even kick out your wife and marry a fourteen-year-old “Suzie” befitting your new status. You have arrived as one of Nigeria’s celebrated rich men.

But keep your eyes on the ball. Don’t get distracted or carried away. The enemies of Mr. President must always remain your enemies.

Start a mega-church This one is pure genius.

Peradventure you lose your job or fall on hard times.

Don’t go into depression.

Just start a church. Make it a purpose-built church.

Think of something that men need. Tell them you have the anointing to provide it. Tell them whoever

wants to be a billionaire should come to your church.

Start a few of your messages with “Thus says the Lord.”

Then teach your congregation the everlasting principles of sowing and reaping.

Make sure they understand that if they really want God to bless them financially, they first have to give you as much money as possible.

Create a special prayer group for millionaires and billionaires. That way, if they get any new government contract they will attribute it to the efficacy of your prayers and credit something big into your bank account. Tell everybody to give you their “first-fruits.”

That is a code word for their entire January salaries.

Then come up with imaginative offerings to collect, such as “prophet’s offering,” (you, of course, being the prophet); “Father, Son and Holy Ghost offerings;” “Jesus will do it offering.”

Very soon, you will be flying your own private jet to preach your gospel in Ilesha; you will be wearing white Armani suits and jerry-curling your hair; you will be collecting gate-fees for new years’ eve services; billionaire thieves and robbers will be queuing up to see your private-secretary on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

In short, you will be living large. For good measure, you will also be slapping demons out of poor bewitched damsels with impunity.

Become a mule There is high demand for this job. There are many politicians and men of timber and caliber looking for mules; men who can keep stolen money for them, or smuggle it to safe havens abroad. This is a highly lucrative job because for every ten billion naira you smuggle, you can pocket one billion. Don’t get greedy and come to the conclusion that you can make off with the entire loot.

That is a sure way to have assassins on your tail. Before they kill you, they will first break your legs. If you are caught while smuggling money abroad, you can eas-

ily escape and come back home dressed as a woman.

Then you can get a national merit award.

If you are a mule for a president or a governor, you are set up for life. You will get 24 hours military protection so that no petty thief can come near you.

You will get to travel all over the world. You will get free medical check-ups, so that you don’t just fall down one day and die.

That would be disastrous, especially if your sponsor does not know exactly where you kept his loot, or if he does not have the password to the secret account you opened for it in the Bahamas in the name of Ali Baba.

Obituary I remember the story of a former Nigerian Head of State who allegedly kept a billion dollars with a mule.

Then the mule had a stroke.

Every effort was made to get him to say just a few words, namely the number of the account where the loot was stashed; but to no avail.

After a few months, the man died. This “national” calamity has prompted the review of the conditions of service of mules.

There are now two new, strictly prohibited, clauses. Mules must not have strokes, and under no circumstances should a mule presume to die. If he does, his generations yet unborn will suffer for it. - See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/09/ how-to-become-anovernight-billionaire-innigeria/#sthash.oIut69Mn. dpuf (P.S./N.B. If you have perfected other Nigerian approaches to quick wealth than these, don’t hesitate to let me know. I promise to keep the matter strictly confidential.)

- See more at: http://www. vanguardngr.com/2013/09/ how-to-become-anovernight-billionaire-innigeria/#sthash.oIut69Mn. dpuf -Vanguard

continued from p(13) Floating hotel draws workers to NW... said Monaghan. “Now they’re coming back in and I’m just thanking God.” Floating lodges are nothing new along the west coast, where they have traditionally been used for road, lumber and fishery projects, but there’s never been anything close to the same size as the 11-deck Silja Festival ship.

As workers finish up lastminute vacuuming and pol-

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

ishing on board the floating hotel, the four investors are eager to secure their next contract. They have had meetings with various companies that plan to build LNG export projects.

To mitigate risk, the group did not buy the roughly $30 million cruise ferry outright but rather reached a type of rent-to-own deal. If things go well, the investors can buy it.

If not, they can walk away.

“I think everybody is sitting here waiting to see if this is a success,” said Brian Grange, president of Bridgemans.

“Am I terrified? No, I’m not.

I think this is probably one of the most innovative ideas that has been seen on the B.C. coast in quite some time.”

(Editing by Jeffrey Hodgson and Prudence Crowther)

52

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

2 WEEKS VACATION TO GHANA Visits to: Visit to historic sites (as it was) Tourist Attractions Transportation in Ghana Accommodation Feeding BUY PROPERTIES IN GHANA

Canada: NG Tours Ngozi Ugoh

Enquiries:

Ghana: Nana Bamfowaa

Development Queen Mother Email:nanabamfowaa@outlook.com

Ghana contact 011-233-503-439299

NIGERIA N

416-318-3506

ngozyu@yahoo.ca

THE

C A N A D I A N N E W S

! n o o S g Comin ith Us Advertise w

2014 Edition

416-318-3506

2 products, one Family Cover Spots 2 available

• Nigerian Canadian Business Directory • Nigerian Canadian News To advertise with us, please call:

416-318-3506

publisher@nigeriancanadiannews.ca www.nigeriancanadiannews.ca

Thank You For Your Business

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

OYINGBO INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN MARKET Main Distributor ABIOLA FOODS World-Wide

1550 Jane Street, Toronto, ON M9M 2R5

Tel: 416-534-5923, 647-836-2652 AB

IO L

A FOOD

S

* African Movies & Music * Cosmetics NE * Beverages W! * Assorted Malt Drinks * Frozen Foods *Stock/Smoked Fish * Rice, Beans, Garri, Semovita & Fufu

SUE & CHARLIE’S MEAT & SEAFOOD IN MISSISSAUGA

SPECIALIZING IN AFRICAN GROCERIES, MEATS & SEAFOODS • YAMS • GARI • FUFU • PLANTAIN • COSMETICS • HAIR PRODUCTS • KINGFISH BOX

• MACKEREL BOX • HARD CHICKEN • SMOKED FISH • STOCKFISH • MOVIES • PALM OIL • AND MUCH MORE!

FRESH CHICKEN, GOAT, BURNT GOAT, SHEEP, BEEF

*Assorted African Spices & Vegetables

100 LBS

AFRICAN SNAILS NOW AVAILABLE

Major Distributors For:

IF WE DON’T HAVE IT, WE’LL GET IT FOR YOU

GREAT PRICE, GREAT QUALITY, GREAT SERVICE

bs.

50l

e

ce Ric

xcel en

Par E

e

ce Ric

xcel en

Par E

bs.

25l

W NE

AFRICAN * ASIAN * CARIBBEAN * LATIN AMERICAN FOODS

53

OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK

3057 HURONTARIO STREET, MISSISSAUGA, L5A 2G9

905-896-2226 OR 905-896-3663

REMOVES BLACK MAGIC, JADOO, OBEYA & BAD LUCK IN 2 DAYS & GIVES IMMEDIATE PROTECTION

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

54

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

55

56

NIGERIAN CANADIAN NEWS • To Advertise Call : 416-318-3506

"I work for you, not the banks! From the first consultation to the signing of your mortgage, our services are free. A fee is charged only for the most challenging credit solutions, and it's especially then that I can do for you what your bank cannot."

We Save You Money & Charge Nothing!

We specialize in 1st, 2nd Mortgages. Private Mortgages, Refinances, New To Canada & Self employed Ask me about Purchase plus Improvements

CALL NOW 416-875-4523

www.charlesayodele.ca | cayodele@dominionlending.ca

Windows

VOLUME 9 • ISSUE 5 • MAY 2014

Charles Ayodele Mortgage Agent

First Class Equity 11965