These are the results so far from the governorship elections. We will update as soon as more results are confirmed.

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Lagos

Ifako-Ijaiye
ACN-74331. ADC-167. ALP-150. ANPP-187. APGA-102. CPC-406. CPN-114. LABOUR-775. NCP-159. NNPP-44. NPC-82. NTP-49. PDP-15561. PRP-64. SDMP-308.

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Kwara

IREPODUN: ACN 10318; ACPN 1800; DPP 1386; PDP 10500

Kaima: ACN 4223; ACPN 1743; CPC 2621; PDP 7905

Baruten: ACN 5241; ACPN 5241; CPC 1470; PDP 20853

Ilorin east: ACN 18152; ACPN 6792; CPC 523; PDP 22686

Ekiti: ACN 2470; ACPN 1903; PDP 6441; CPC 711

Ilorin south: ACN 19184; ACPN 5262; PDP 17865; CPC 399 NTP 99

OKE ERO: ACN 3327; ACPN 2002; PDP 5096; CPC 211

ISIN: ACN 3316; ACPN 847; PDP 5981; CPC 150

Moro: ACN 5044; ACPN 5205; PDP 17172; CPC 620

Ilorin WEST: ACN 38984; ACPN 13853; CPC 1487; PDP 39716

IFELODUN: ACN 5630; ACPN 5632; PDP 34230; CPC 241

ASA: ACN 5910; ACPN 4290; PDP 19747; CPC 406

OYUN: ACN 4815; ACPN 1445; PDP 10515; CPC 98

EDU: ACN 4229; ACPN 9517; PDP 18903; CPC 629

PATIGI: ACN 2673; ACPN 6184; PDP 9612; CPC 156

OFFA: ACN 19064; ACPN 1810; CPC 89; PDP 7747

OYUN: ACN 19064; ACPN 1810; CPC 89; PDP 774

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Lagos

Ojo
ACN-62627. ADC-399. ALP-113. ANPP-188. APGA-1035. CPC-274. CPN-100. LABOUR-157. NCP-111. NNPP-28. NPC-55. NTP-77. PDP-11809. PRP-54. SDMP-29.

Alimosho
ACN-156384. ADC-848. ALP-313. ANPP-477. APGA-305. CPC-651. CPN-188. LABOUR-656. NCP-263. NNPP-87. NPC-199. NTP-128. PDP-33750. PRP-159. SDMP-117.

Ikorodu
ACN-88311. ADC-507. ALP-187. ANPP-292. APGA-105. CPC-344. CPN-111. LABOUR-836. NCP-126. NNPP-38. NPC-69. NTP-87. PDP-15373. PRP-69. SDMP-63.

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Benue: ACN agents' call for rejection of results from Ukum turned down by the REC, Nasir Ayilara

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Kwara: PDP wins 22 of the 24 house of assembly seats while ACN wins two

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Benue

Ohimini: ACN - 5519 PDP - 9024
Logo: ACN - 12353 PDP - 46262
Buruku: ACN - 47750 PDP - 18269
Otukpo: ACN - 12761 PDP - 23681
Ukum: ACN - 6575 PDP - 46704

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Oyo: ACN governorship candidate ahead in results released so far by INEC

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Kwara

Kaima LGA 
ACN 4223, ACPN 1743, ALP 40, ANPP 39, APGA 33, APS 46, ARP 38, CPC 2621, DPP 58, LDPN 25, NCP 15, NTP 96, PDP 7905, RPN 147, UNPP 14

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Lagos

Oshodi-Isolo
ACN-95000. ADC-532. ALP-198. ANPP-280. APGA-285. CPC-321. CPN-129. LABOUR-371. NCP-466. NNPP-56. NPC-151. NTP-419. PDP-19917. PRP-83. SDMP-69.

Kosofe

ACN-113727. ADC-874. ALP-236. ANPP-264. APGA-122. CPC-831. CPN-160. LABOUR-2012. NCP-208. NNPP-49. NPC-109. NTP-163. PDP-18801. PRP-79. SDMP-65.

Agege
ACN-65521. ADC-369. ALP-110. ANPP-235. APGA-114. CPC-1322. CPN-134. LABOUR-102. NCP-171. NNPP-27. NPC-123. NTP-85. PDP-22134. PRP-81. SDMP-66.

Surulere
ACN-106140. ADC-487. ALP-173. ANPP-635. APGA-646. CPC-283. CPN-141. LABOUR-602. NCP-193. NNPP-110. NPC-75. NTP-81. PDP-13777. PRP-70. SDMP-132.

Mushin
ACN-129655. ADC-465. ALP-170. ANPP-341. APGA-163. CPC-259. CPN-154. LABOUR-953. NCP-113. NNPP-43. NPC-69. NTP-84. PDP-13881. PRP-57. SDMP-118.

Lagos Mainland
ACN-59824. ADC-339. ALP-116. ANPP-193. APGA-767. CPC-286. CPN-58. LABOUR-580. NCP-110. NNPP-33. NPC-56. NTP-143. PDP-11966. PRP-48. SDMP-73.

Ikeja
ACN-55108. ADC-289. ALP-203. ANPP-152. APGA-75. CPC-302. CPN-62. LABOUR-156. NCP-95. NNPP-20. NPC-39. NTP-65. PDP-16218. PRP-42. SDMP-39.

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Kwara

Baruten LGA 
ACN 5241 
ACPN 5241 
CPC 1470 
NTP 189 
PDP 20853 
RPN 260 
ANPP 75 
ALP 82 
APGA 57 
APS 50 
ARP 62

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Lagos

Epe
ACN-46076. ADC-146. ALP-58. ANPP-65. APGA-16. CPC-40. CPN-26. LABOUR-790. NCP-30. NNPP-9. NPC-15. NTP-17. PDP-9458. PRP-27. SDMP-49.

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Benue

Ado: ACN - 6324 PDP - 21226
Okpokwu: ACN - 6655 PDP - 24270
Oju: ACN - 14708 PDP - 19979
Obi: ACN - 6415 PDP - 14202
Ogbadigbo: ACN - 8002 PDP - 12649
Agatu: ACN - 7135 PDP - 14742
Apa: ACN - 5228 PDP - 15788
Tarka: ACN - 23994 PDP - 2788
Oshongo: ACN - 32279 PDP - 24924
Vandeikya: ACN - 37900 PDP - 31028

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Lagos

Badagry
ACN-40166. ADC-257. ALP-127. ANPP-161. APGA-73. CPC-401. CPN-73. LABOUR-516. NCP-49. NNPP-34. NPC-76. NTP-78. PDP-9632. PRP-68. SDMP-57.

Lagos Island
ACN-57792. ADC-194. ALP-50. ANPP-132. APGA-30. CPC-75. CPN-26. LABOUR-291. NCP-49. NNPP-18. NPC-31. NTP-0. PDP-7819. PRP-33. SDMP-32.

Ibeju-Lekki
ACN-25410. ADC-111. ALP-26. ANPP-710. APGA-14. CPC-37. CPN-11. LABOUR-67. NCP-30. NNPP-17. NPC-17. NTP-05. PDP-9187. PRP-18. SDMP-11.

Etiosa
ACN-52380. ADC-290. ALP-26. ANPP-123. APGA-83. CPC-365. CPN-59. LABOUR-55. NCP-101. NNPP-25. NPC-48. NTP-58. PDP-14147. PRP-61. SDMP-60

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Kwara

Ilorin east 
ACN 18152 
ACPN 6792 
ALP 128 
ANPP 167 
CPC 523 
NTP 148 
PDP 22686 
RPN 90

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Ekiti

Ekiti LGA 
ACN 2470 
ACPN 1903 
PDP 6441 
CPC 711 
DPP 441 
ANPP 50 
NTP 23 
ARP 19 
RPN 14

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Lagos

Amuwo- Odofin 
ACN-61719. ADC-362. ALP-99. ANPP-127. APGA-1120. CPC-199. CPN-71. LABOUR-351. NCP-115. NNPP-28. NPC-70. NTP-375. PDP-11222. PRP-46. SDMP-45

Ajeromi-Ifelodun 
ACN-101910. ADC-741. ALP-253. ANPP-340. APGA-360. CPC-534. CPN-140. LABOUR-75. NCP-217. NNPP-71. NPC-117. NTP-120. PDP-21529. PRP-130. SDMP-21

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Kwara hotel 1/ilorin east
ACN 122 
ACPN 44 
ALP 1 
ANPP 1 
CPC 2 
PDP 151 
RPN 1

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Kwara Results

Mogaji are 2
ACN 183 
ACPN 14 
PDP 58 
RPN 2 
DPP 2 
ALP 1 
ANPP 1 
CPC 1

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G.R.A, Ikeja PUs
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1a. La/11/09/025:
Total voter registered: 765.
Accredited voters: 162
Number of votes:

Gubernatorial: 152 votes cast
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ACN-129
PDP-13
ANNP- 1
NCP-2
NTP-1
ALP-1
Invalid-5
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1b. La/11/09/025:
Total voter reg: 765.
Accredited voters: 162
Number of votes:
House of Assembly:152
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ACN-120
ANNP-1
PMP-1
ADC-1
CNP-1
NCP-3
ALP-1
NAC-1
LP-2
PDP-16
Invalid-5.

2a. La/11/09/024:

Voter reg:
Accredited voters:187
House of Assembly: 177 votes cast
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Nap-5,pdc-1,acpn-2,dpp-1,nmpp-2,cpc-3,pac-1,lp-6,ncp-2,pdp-37,acn-106,alp-1,nup-1,anpp-1,acd-3,mpc-1,invalid-4.

Gubernatorial:177 votes cast
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Acn:141,adc-1,cpc-1,alp-2,invalid-2,pdp-30

3a. la/09/11/020. Oduduwa crescent,gra, ikeja(1).
Registered Voters:839
Accredited votes :152
Lagos Assembly:147 votes cast
Acn-69,alp-8,anpp-1,lp-10,pdp-42,sdmp-1,invalid-16.

b. Gubernatorial: 147 votes cast.
Acn-104,alp-2,cpc-1,lp-1,ncp-1,pdp-38.

4a.
la/09/11/021. Oduduwa crescent,gra, ikeja(2).

Laha:223votes cast
Acn:98,alp-3,cpc:1,lp-13,ncp-1,pdp-71,invalid-36

b. Gubernatorial:223 votes cast
Acn-163,adc-2,alp:2,apga-1,cpc-2,ntp:1,pdp:52.

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Isele Polling Unit in Ikorodu, Lagos
ACN-159
PDP-24
ADC-1
NPP-1

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Nathan primary school, Surulere, Polling unit 019 in Yaba/Ojuelegba ward. Dosunmu's polling unit.

Governorship election:

ACN-156;

PDP- 90;

PRP- 1;

NPC- 1;

NCP- 2;

LP- 1;

ADC- 1;

Registered voters- 654;

Accredited voters- 280.

State House of Assembly :

ACN- 139;

PDP- 97;

NAP- 9;

NRDD- 1;

NCP- 3;

ACD- 1;

VOID-2.

Nathan primary school, Surulere, Polling unit 018 in Yaba/Ojuelegba ward, In the same school compound with Dosunmu's polling unit.

Governorship election:

ACN- 175;

PDP- 78;

NCP- 1;

ADC-2;

PRP-2;

ANPP-1;

Registered voters- 783;

Accredited voters- 286.

State House of Assembly-:

ACN- 156;

PDP- 74;

APGA- 1;

NCP- 3;

UNPP-1;

NAP-15;

ACPN-1;

ACB-3;

NAC-1;

ANPP-1.

While waxing eloquent about the necessity of preserving our nation's "natural heritage," he had not a word for the millions of Christians celebrating Easter in America and around the world.

The American Family Association believes this was an intentional act of disrespect.

This is consistent with other egregious examples of disregard for our Christian heritage on the president's part, such as omitting "Creator" from the Declaration of Independence, which he has done on at least three occasions.

The president has shown far more interest in promoting Islam than his own self-proclaimed Christian faith, the faith of our Founding Fathers.

The president has been devoted to issuing statements marking all major Muslim holidays, which are of no historical significance to the United States whatsoever. He has released statements in honor of Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, holidays which most Americans cannot pronounce and certainly do not celebrate.

More glaringly, President Obama made no mention of Good Friday or Easter in his weekly address to the nation on Saturday.

Even the secular media noted this inexcusable slighting of the Christian faith. When asked about it, the president's spokesman, Jay Carney, answered mockingly by saying, "I'm glad you're asking me these important questions, guys." (See video of Mr. Carney's comments here.)

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 The Real Benefits of Detox

So what are the benefits of detox? What does detox actually means? Detox is a bodily process that transforms health threatening toxic substances from our environment, diets, as well as our own bodies into something harmless or excreted.

One of the most complex detoxification functions is against heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadminum, nickel, arsenic, and aluminum.

Our body’s main detoxification organs and systems are liver, colon, kidneys, gallbladder, lungs, skin, lymph, and blood. They help rid your body of wastes and toxins. However, our bodily functions were designed when the world were less polluted.

But now with a world with much more toxins and pollution, our body organs and systems have to work a lot harder to rid the exponentially increased waste and toxins.

Yet we are helping in anyway to our organs and systems to do their job more effectively. Imagine overworked workers who are also not provided with enough food for every meal.

This will definitely tire them out and their efficient and effective work performance will naturally drop. This leads to work not fully accomplished or even worse undone.

We are treating our body in the same manner. We are not providing the body organs and systems with proper nutrition to function and perform their best even though they are working much harder than before.

This simple concept of detox is to achieve these aspects: 

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• Reduce the amount of toxins and pollution into our body to lessen the burden against the detoxification organs
• Promote healthy eating, nutrition and supplementation to help our body effectively clear the toxins
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Great Benefits of Detox:

• Improve our Immune Function
• Scavenge free radicals and eliminate toxins
• Strengthen body’s fight against cancer cells and generate healthy cells in our body
• Cleanse mucous, congestion, fermentation, inflammation in our digestive tract
• Purify our blood
• Reform our lifestyle addictions for sugar, salt, high glycemic carbohydrates, alcohol, junk foods, nicotine, etc

From the 2 objectives and various benefits provide a strong healing process for our body. They strengthen our body to further cleanse out waste we have accumulated since childhood that has resulted in our body being congested, inflamed, and damaged.

Once our body are not kept busy dealing with all these cleansing process, it can its focus on doing the more important things like fighting back cancer and chronic degenerative diseases, restoring our health, and repairing the damage in our body.

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Borno, Nigeria (CNN) -- Nigeria will proceed with national gubernatorial elections Tuesday, despite continuing violence that has raised fears that an Islamist group will step up attacks against voters.

Bomb blasts Monday in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno killed three people and wounded dozens, police said.

In one of three blasts, a bomb thrown from a motorcycle on which two young men were riding detonated, resulting in the three fatalities, said Michael Zukoma, police commissioner for Borno state.

Nigerian police told CNN that Boko Haram, an Islamist sect that has challenged Nigeria's government, is responsible for the attacks, which they described as an attempt to intimidate voters who this month re-elected President Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw Christian from the south.

The explosions occurred a day after the Nigerian Red Cross reported that rural villages had held mass burials in northern Nigeria. Witnesses say that violence in the wake of Jonathan's election has resulted in hundreds of deaths, though there is no official death toll. The government has provided few details.

This month's election of Jonathan, who is from the majority-Christian southern part of the country, sparked violence in the Muslim-dominated north last week.

Concerns about ongoing violence led Nigerian election officials last week to delay the planned gubernatorial elections in two of Nigeria's 36 states. Voters in Kaduna and Bauchi states will go to the polls Thursday.

Northern Muslims in some areas charged that the presidential election was rigged. Armed protesters in the region took to the streets chanting the name of former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, the main opposition front-runner.

The last election, four years ago, was widely condemned for rampant vote rigging, violence, theft of ballot boxes and intimidation.

While this month's presidential election was marred by violence, reports of underage voting and logistical problems, observers said they considered it an improvement.

After he was declared the victor, Jonathan warned that persistent post-election violence could threaten the stability of the country.

"These acts of mayhem are sad reminders of the events which plunged our country into 30 months of an unfortunate civil war," Jonathan said last week.

Jonathan was referring to a period of unrest in the 1960s that spawned a civil war in Nigeria.

Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer and its most populous nation, with 150 million people.

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Nollywood actress, script writer, GLO ambassador and nominee for Actor of the Year at the Future Awards, Uche Jombo has joined the list of artistes who own movie studios with the launch of her movie studio, Uche Jombo Studios.

The first project from the new UJ studios which is also an ambitious and socially conscious project is a collection of 3 movies Titled ‘The Damage Movies’.

At advocacy for social issues, each of the three stories addresses important problems affecting individuals, families and societies at large, the first movie to be released, DAMAGED, sees her act alongside movie star Kalu Ikeagwu as a married couple in an abusive relationship as it highlights the psychological effect it could have especially on the children.

As protests rocked the northern part of the country over results of the presidential election, DIPO LALEYE reports the then unfolding event and how it affected different sets of people including the perpetrators themselves.

BY the time the protests got full blown, Christians in Minna and other parts of Niger State suddenly discovered that they had become targets of attacks arising from a national political event that had no colouration of religion.

No fewer than five churches were burnt by the protesters. Some of these churches are the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Deeper Life Bible Ministry, Joyous Miracle Gospel Church, as well as Grace Assembly Church.

The Deeper Life Bible Church lost an ultra-modern Information Communication Technology equipment installed for the reception of messages from the international headquarters of the organisation. The equipment was installed only 24 hours before the crisis broke out.

The case of Associate Pastor, Yussuf Ishaya, of First ECWA Church, is more pathetic. For sometime, the pastor and members of his family had accommodated the almajiris in his area, often sharing meals with them and even allowing them to sleep in his compound. Though his wife was not too comfortable with this arrangement and the possibility that they could one day pose a threat to the family, Pastor Ishaya remained undaunted.

That day came on Monday when one of the almajiris told the pastor that they would burn his house that day.

The pastor did not take the threat lightly. He transferred his wife and children to the Mobile Police barracks not too far from his residence.

It was while returning from the barracks that he met a neighbour on the road who informed him that his house was on fire and that neighbours had tried to put off the fire without success.

"Nobody could control the fire, neighbours tried to put out the fire, they did not succeed. They only succeeded in stopping it from reaching the church," Ishaya said.

Virtually everything he had was taken away by the arsonists before the residence was set ablaze. The protesters even took away a goat and some fowls in his poultry.

The next day, according to Pastor Ishaya, when members of the church were assisting to clear the rubbles and see if they could retrieve anything from the burnt house, they came across a shock find; the burnt body of one of the protesters under collapsed blocks of the building.

"The neighbours immediately recognised the boy, so they invited his father who identified his son. Both the church members and the father of the deceased have made statements to the police, while the corpse was released to the parents for burial," Ishaya said.

The Catholic church, also in the Abdulsalam quarters as the area near Angwa- Kaje, Minna, also lost all its furniture and equipment to the protest.

The protesters in their hundreds, like they did to the NCCF building, stormed the other churches, forced the gates opened before wetting the buildings with petrol and set them ablaze.

Several millions of naira worth of property, including furniture, musical instruments and personal property of the church resident pastors were burnt in the inferno. One pastor was almost killed as he was macheted in the back and thigh.

At the Faith Foundation Church along Top Medical Road, the General Overseer of the church, one Pastor Samande, was attacked by those he had lived with as neighbours for over 30 years.

The arrival of security men saved his life and the church from being burnt. The combined efforts of the state Police Commissioner, Mr Haassan Bala, and men of the special operations unit of the force saved the Shiyona Baptist Church along Sabon-Ngari from being burnt.

The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the last presidential election; Tunde Bakare, has declared that the party has evidence to prove that the People's Democratic Party (PDP) rigged the April 16 election.

Mr Bakare, said this in his Easter sermon at the Latter Rain Assembly, Ikeja, Lagos, where he is the senior pastor. He said the CPC has resolved to go the court to challenge the result that declared President GoodlucK Jonathan of the People's Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner, "not because we are bad losers but we are going to prove to the world that the election was fraudulent."

Reacting to NEXT's publication on Sunday which cited his failure to sign a letter presented to him by the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) to be the reason that collapsed the alliance talk between CPC and ACN, the Pastor who read out the paper to his congregation expressed his delight that the letter is out saying "everything is all out now, it is wonderful for Nigerians to see what truly happened" as he explained that he did not sign the letter because, doing such will amount to perjury.

Incriminating letter

According to Mr Bakare, "the letter that was brought to me was on a blank sheet of paper and not on a paper with CPC letter as published" but he confirmed that the content of the letter was the same. He further explained that the letter was dated 7th of June and addressed to the President of Nigeria with the content claiming that he was the Vice-President.

He then explained to his congregation during the sermon that was aired on a national TV station that "I refused to sign such a letter because of two reasons. One, it is impersonation. I am not the Vice-President and two, doing such is perjury." "I then wrote a letter in return stating that I will not sign the letter because I was not Vice-President at that time and I will not sign what will implicate me tomorrow."

Mr Bakare who has previously been quoted as saying, "to sign the letter is not only illegal but prostitution and whoredom" described the ploy by ACN as "the pervasion of standard and evasion of principles." He likened himself to Esau in the bible saying "they want me to give away my birthright like it doesn't matter to me." "Those who are guilty of perjury in the past want company" he chided.

He further noted that he was willing to sacrifice for the alliance to work but such a request must only come from the leader of his party. He described ACN's proposal as a ‘compromise' which he defined as "an agreement between two people to do what they both know is wrong as against the sacrifice that was needed at the point in time."

"It wasn't the letter that broke the alliance, time will tell and one of these days people will know who their real leaders are." He warned that "it is not over yet, it is just the beginning of a new process."

On the inferno that razed his residence on Friday, the clergy was full of praises for God as he sang a worship song in Yoruba language and he again compared himself to the biblical Job and Jonah stating such tribulations are endorsed by God, who will take him to where he wants to be. He said "the tyranny of the majority might be on but the majority that is wrong will become the minority and the minority that is right will become the majority, it is only a matter of time" he warned.

Peretimi Apeli a youth corps member and a victim of the post election violence that swept across some states northern Nigeria lost everything he had during the crisis but for the faded shirt, a pair of shorts and bathroom slippers that he was wearing.

Frustrated and depressed, Mr Apeli is taking refuge at the orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Katsina State. Mr Apeli vividly remembers the events of Monday, April 18, 2011, when he narrowly escaped death in the hands of irate youth in Daura Local Government who had gone on rampage protesting the yet-to-be announced results of the presidential elections.

"It was around 10:30. I was in front of the house trying to cook, selecting beans when a car came that they are coming to our lodge that we should run," said Mr Apeli, a graduate from the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa.

"It was as we were running into the car outside that I saw the mob. I saw death. That we are alive is God because if they had met us in the house, I wouldn‘t be here. We had to drive through bush before we managed to escape to the Daura Police station." The mob completely burned the Dambukar Lodge which the Local Government Education Authority had given to him and seven other corps members. While no life was lost, nothing was salvaged.

At the same time in Zango Local Government, over 20 corps members living at the Central Corpers Lodge had to take refuge at the Nigeria-Niger Republic border.

Chaos unlimited

Within the next 48 hours, the situation worsened across at least seven local governments, notably Funtua, Jibia, Kankara, Faskari, Malumfashi, Dandume and also Katsina, the state capital. Several lives were lost while scores of churches, property, shops and businesses worth hundreds of millions of naira were completely razed.

"Katsina has always been peaceful. This crisis came as a surprise to all of us. This is the first time in my 17 years in Katsina this type of thing is happening," said Adewale Adediran, the Katsina State chapter chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). In Katsina, the state capital, hoodlums razed the house of the head pastor of the Cherubim and Seraphim church together with the church bus along Dutsin-Ma road at about 11p.m., despite the 9p.m to 7a.m curfew imposed by Katsina state governor, Ibrahim Shema.

The fire also destroyed the apartment of four corps members and another female occupant scheduled to wed next month.

They were left on their own

As security presence was greatly stretched to contain the violence which had erupted across the state, the army's 35 Battalion obtained clearance to open the orientation camp of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in the state capital.

The corps members in Daura, numbering over 100, were asked to assemble at the Daura Police station, while the commanding officer of the battalion, Emmanuel Etuka, a lieutenant colonel, made provision for buses to evacuate them to the camp under military cover.

But on the same Monday, the NYSC Katsina State coordinator, Abdul Salisu Taura, visited the corps members at the Police station, refusing them relocating to the orientation camp. By Tuesday, Mr Taura disbursed N1,000 to each corps member to use to fend for themselves, while they slept inside the police station premises in the open air outside.

By Wednesday, the corps members decided they would no longer pay heed to Mr. Taura and instead go to the camp than continue living in the police station. But by this time the military were unable to provide the buses which had initially being offered.

When NEXT asked Mr. Taura why he refused them moving to the camp, he denied giving the directive. And when asked what provision the NYSC had been made to transport the corps members to the camp, he said it was the responsibility of the Army to provide the transportation.

"The army is there. The army is to move them. Like me I am very far away now. It will take me about four hours to get to Daura. Let the army move them," Mr Taura said. He subsequently switched off his phone.

In a desperate effort to leave Daura, the corps members made a written application to the authorities of the Yusuf Bala Usman College of Legal and General Studies, Daura, for a bus to convey them to the NYSC Camp.

The school authorities initially refused on the grounds that they needed to see the security which would accompany the vehicle they would release to the corps members. But when Captain Omotade with several soldiers drafted to ensure the corps members safety presented himself, the school's provost, Husseni Umar, in the presence of the registrar, Mohammed Daura and the director of works, still refused citing several reasons.

"One, it is unlawful for the army or the police to come into the school premises. Two, we cannot guarantee the safety of the people if we release our vehicle. Three, are corpers of a privileged group that they alone need protection? I am the chief security of the college and I will not release it. Even we as a board we have superiors we report to," Mr. Umar said.

When NEXT asked who could be approached to get clearance for the release of the bus, Mr Umar said he would not assist. At an earlier time, the director of works had said only the governor of the state could give the approval.

A good Samaritan At wits end, the corps members resigned to charter seven commercial buses at N2,000 each vehicle. But by the time the vehicles were assembled at the police station, neither the corps members nor the NYSC Zonal Inspector in charge of the zone, Mrs Shittu had the funds needed.

It was eventually a good Samaritan who paid the drivers N14,000 in the presence of Ayo Basowa, the coordinator of the Daura Corps members.

With heavy military escort, about 100 corps members were conveyed to the NYSC camp, where they were received by the heads of the State Security Service, the army and the Police in the state.

Like Mr Apeli, the over 600 corps members evacuated from different locations in the state and presently residing at the NYSC camp feel more secured. Yet the experience of the past week has left them traumatised. They say nothing will make them go back to their places of primary assignment where they are expected to perform their role of presiding officers in the forthcoming Gubernatorial and House of Assembly elections.

"Everybody here is one trouser one shirt. Look at me now. All I have is my shorts and bathroom slippers. I have lost all my credentials and belongings. I saw people who came to kill me. No human being who sees what I saw will go back and conduct election. For N7,000? Never!" said Mr. Apeli as he counts his losses serving his fatherland.

Multiple-award-winning rapper and Chocolate City's frontline act, MI, will relaunch his sophomore album, ‘MI2: The Movie' in London next weekend. According to a statement from his record label, the rapper, whose album is currently receiving rave reviews, will be performing an album release concert at Indigo O2 in London.

"We bring the best of Africa to the world and MI is arguably the biggest African Hip-hop star who we believe can hold his own against any of his international counterparts," Ropo Akin, the chief executive officer of Cokobar, the event promoter, said.

The concert will feature performances from Chocolate City label mates, Jesse Jagz, Ice prince as well as soulful singer, Waje.

MI2: The Movie was released in Nigeria in November 2010 with hit tracks including, ‘One Naira' featuring Waje, ‘Number One' featuring highlife singer, Flavour and ‘Action Film' featuring Brymo.

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***Hip-Hop World Awards changes name

Popular urban music awards organised by Smooth Promotions, Hip-Hop World Awards, has now adopted its moniker, ‘The Headies', as its running name. According to the entertainment website, thenetng.com, Ayo Animashaun, chief executive officer of Smooth Promotions believes the name change wouldn't come as a surprise to many.

"It was just a matter of time. Everyone in-house has been calling the award that name [since] forever; because that's what we christened our [statuette]. I think the name is more hip and trendy, and it helps us place proper focus on the prize, which is the [statuette]," Animashaun told thenetng.com.

Animashaun also used the opportunity to announce that the annual event will not be hosted in Lagos this year. Although the host city is yet to be named, Animashaun revealed that the awards ceremony will be hosted in another city to help show it is a national award.

"This will be the second time we're leaving Lagos. We had the show in Abuja in 2009 and Abuja showed us love. Since then there's been clamour from different regions for us to come stage the awards there. And as a truly and proudly national brand we're very open to moving the show all over Nigeria. So when the opportunity came to move again, we happily grabbed it," Animashaun said.

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***Lindsay Lohan out on bail

Lindsay Lohan was briefly jailed again on Friday after a roller coaster day in which a judge downgraded her jewellery theft charge, but sentenced the actress to four months behind bars for violating her probation.

Looking confused and distressed, Lohan - who was locked up for two weeks last summer - was taken immediately to jail from court after a day-long preliminary hearing on charges that she stole a $2,500 gold necklace from a store in January.

The "Mean Girls" actress was ordered to stand trial on June 3 but the jewellery charge was reduced to a misdemeanor from a more serious felony, and will cut to one year her maximum time behind bars if eventually convicted.

Los Angeles judge Stephanie Sautner, however, felt the evidence on Friday suggested Lohan intended to steal the jewellery.

She therefore ruled Lohan had violated her probation for a 2007 drunk driving and cocaine possession incident, and sentenced her to 120 days jail and 480 hours community service in a morgue and women's prison.

Lohan's lawyer filed an immediate appeal and Lohan's camp scrambled to post $75,000 bail and secure her release from custody pending an appeal hearing.

She was released late on Friday after about five hours, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department website.

Lohan, 24, has strenuously denied that she deliberately walked out of a Los Angeles store wearing a necklace without paying. Her lawyer on Friday argued that she was distracted and absent-minded when she left with the item around her neck.

Lohan's assistant returned it to police after news leaked that a search warrant was to be served on Lohan's house.

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***Mel Gibson breaks silence

Mel Gibson has broken his silence on his damaging domestic violence scandal, calling the leak of angry personal phone calls with his then-girlfriend last year a "personal betrayal." The Oscar-winning director of "Braveheart" described the leaked tapes, in which Gibson was heard ranting, swearing and threatening Russian girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva, "terribly humiliating and painful for my family." Gibson added that he did not care if he ever acted again.

"I've never treated anyone badly or in a discriminatory way based on their gender, race, religion or sexuality - period," Gibson told Hollywood journalist Allison Hope Weiner in a lengthy interview for website Deadline Hollywood on Friday.

Gibson last month pleaded no contest to a charge of hitting Grigorieva, the mother of his baby daughter, as their relationship broke down in early 2010.

He was sentenced to three years probation, a year of counselling and community service.

In his first public comments on the saga, Gibson said the tapes of phone calls leaked a year ago were edited, adding; "It's one terribly, awful moment in time, said to one person, in the span of one day and doesn't represent what I truly believe or how I've treated people my entire life." "Who anticipates being recorded? ... Who could anticipate such a personal betrayal?" Gibson said.

Gibson's longtime manager left him, his movie "The Beaver" was delayed for months, and actors on the sequel to comedy "Hangover 2" refused to work with him because of the fall-out of the sexist and racist remarks on the tapes.

They were leaked to the media as Gibson was trying to make an acting comeback after making vicious anti-Semitic remarks during a 2006 drunken driving arrest, and the end of his 28-year marriage.

Actresses Whoopi Goldberg and Jodie Foster were among the few Hollywood stars to publicly defend Gibson at the height of the Grigorieva scandal last year.

SOME days ago, a rumour broke out in Lagos that threw the corporate world  into confusion as tales spread over the alleged ill-health of astute banker and Managing Director of GTBank, Tayo Aderinokun.

The rumour, which reportedly said that the banker had bowed to a strange ailment, got friends, families and admirers of the man working their phones

to get a true picture of the story.

But his nephew, Olumide Aderinokun, who is a politician and the Managind Director of Davade Properties, was quick to douse the tension when he disclosed that”there is nothing wrong with Uncle Tayo, I don’t know where this bad rumour emanated from, I’ve received about 50 calls on the same issue today. Please, help tell them that my uncle is hale and hearty.”

Some friends of the banker who also spoke on the rumour claimed he is in good health and that the story being bandied about must have been the handiwork of some mischievous people.

Sources claimed the GTBank boss had been battling with a minor ailment for sometime and that he is much better now.

Hassan is just sixteen but already he rides an okada between lekki and ajah in Lagos . Asked why he does not go to school he says he prefers to be his own boss and he makes good money daily. The source of funding for his bike came from an ALhaji who brings these boys down and funds them with brand new bikes which they use to balance him a specified amount . With time they can purchase the bike out right and move on with their lives ..

A visit to Hausa quarters in Aduwawa a suburb in benin Edo State with direct access to Abuja & The northern part of the country popularly known for its cattle market .The local edo girls are known to have inter married the Rich Mallams who have made aduwawa their home .Words can not express the debauchery and depravity witnessed during the Hausa Parties we witnessed at their All night Nite "clubs".Prostitutes of differing ethnicities gather in these enclaves offering sex as the only product. 

Many Okada men live in these quarters and i am sure a supply of arms could be immediately smuggled in to Aduwawa within the trailers that bring in livestock ,tomatoes etc from the North and under the direction of a skillfull General can be used to unleash terror and suffering in lightning strikes on the infidel Christians ..

be wary be watchful in your area this is not a joke but a possible reality .Northeners hate Christians they are very quick to remind us of this . That amiable mallam who sells watches in your area might have a deep seated desire to off your existence .That Butcher That Suya Seller be ware be ware ! 

The Almajiri phenomenom:

A friend once described an almajiri using the plate or offering "basket" he uses to beg as an example .

"they eat with it they accept money in it and i pray they dont (shit) in it too "

We came across this CNN article on Al

majiris in Northern Nigeria and the threat they pose to Nation.  The article makes frightening reading and the last few paragraphs of the article which was written about 4 months ago more or less predicted the outbreak of murder and mayhem that we have just witnessed in Northern Nigeria.   Some key excerpts from the article are as follows:

A forlorn murmur of young voices echoes from a shack pieced together from rusted corrugated iron.

Inside, more than 50 children with torn clothes and unwashed faces hunch over small wooden tablets or torn scraps of paper with sections of the Quran.

Above them stands a 20-year-old with a small whip -- the children are here to memorize the Quran.

They are the Almajiri.

On the walls hang small bags with their few belongings. In these dark, cramped conditions, the children must study, sleep and eat.

It's an ancient tradition. Poor families from rural areas across West Africa send their children to a network of Islamic boarding schools in the cities of northern Nigeria.

Once here, often hundreds of kilometers from their families, they receive little education and no money.

The Almajiri must beg to survive. Across the north, an afternoon break in classes sends the children flooding into the streets with small bowls to search for any scraps.

Over the past few decades, the system has been overwhelmed and neglected.

And abused.

One young man sent by his family from neighboring Niger told CNN how the schools use him and other children as foot soldiers in religious clashes.

Fearing for his life, he spoke on condition of anonymity, telling how he lost his arm in 2000 in religious violence that killed about 1,000 people in the northern city of Kaduna.

"I blame my Quranic teacher, who sent me to fight during the riots," he said.

"He has ruined my life."

In 2000, about 1,000 people died in religious violence, and hundreds more two years later, after the Miss World competition was to be held in Kaduna. Many of the perpetrators came from the Almajiri.

The Nigeria-based Almajiri Education Foundation says on its Web site: " 'Almajiri' is a word borrowed from Arabic for someone who leaves his home in search of knowledge in Islamic religion. In the ideal situation, the communities should support these children as they leave their families to become a servant of Allah.

"Unfortunately this has not been the case," the foundation's site continues, "and many young boys are leaving their homes only to end up in the streets begging. They have no one to turn to."

Though there are no exact figures on the Almajiri, they are estimated to number in the millions.

The only census ever taken was in Kano state, which found in 2006 that there were 1.2 million Almajiri in Kano alone. One researcher working with UNICEF estimates that 60 percent of the children never return home.

"We can see the manifestations in child begging, child destitution, child trafficking," said Muhamed Laden, a professor of law at Ahmadu Bello University.

"And then they're easily instigated for them to be involved as children in such conflicts that have largely been violent and very bloody in this part of the world."

The government is looking into monitoring and licensing the schools, but the National Council for the Welfare of the Destitute, which is piloting such a program, complains of too little funding.

Council officials warn that the consequences of ignoring the children could be dire.

"They're a real threat -- a real problem -- to the society, unless you address this issue now," said Usman Jibrin, the council's president.

"Otherwise, these children will one day take over control of this country -- in a very unpleasant way."

The children are a violent threat to Nigeria, but also its first victims.

Now does anyone think anything would be done to improve the lot of these children even if Buhari had won?    Is it not the case that so called Northern leaders just use these children as foot soldiers and cannon fodder to advance and protect their interests?   Your comments are most welcome.

photos: Obinna & ukeoma 
I did not know Obinna directly but we had mutual friends here in London. Until recently Obinna was here in the UK, at his family expense, to pick up a post graduate qualification. Obi, as I will call him for the rest of this write up, like every young man had dreams and hopes and one of such was to go back and complete the mandatory NYSC. As a result he packed his bags, paid his way back to Nigeria to serve his fatherland in Bauchi where he was posted to do his National Youth Service.

As you might have guessed by now Obi is one of the Youth Corpers, reported glibly by the media, killed in Bauchi in the last few days. I don’t know if it is because it has happened so many times or what, but the media in Nigeria have become very blasé about such killings and no longer view such as worthy of further coverage. Obi was a person, he had a life, he had a family that loved and sacrificed for him. Obi as you can see from his picture was a good looking young man full of life. According to friends, Obi had run to the corpers lodge to seek refuge and was worried enough to contemplate running to the barracks. But before he or any of the other corpers in the lodge could actualize this; death arrived in the form of a CPC murder squad.

The terror Obi and the rest must have felt can only be best imagined. They were forced out and beaten up and not quite done, the baying crowd of CPC fanatics slaughtered them and set their bodies alight. It is not the kind of death you will wish on your enemy. Let no one try and palm this off on the usual suspects; the Almajiris. Yes there must have been street urchins amongst the killer squad but these were CPC and Buhari loyalists who were out to sort out “the opponents” of their leader. It did not matter to them that these young people were on a National service, as far as they were concerned, if they were not one of them, then they must be the enemy.

There are parallels between the killing of Obi et al and what happened in Kenya at the tail end of 2007 when Kenyans went to the polls in a bitterly fought election. The incumbent Mwai Kibaki’s reelection was disputed by the main opposition leader Raila Odinga. In no time Kalenjin militias in the Rift Valley fanned out in a murderous search of Kibaki’s supporters and kinsmen. They burnt down their houses, looted and killed Kikuyus who were seen as Kibaki’s supporters. Kibaki’s Kikuyus soon retaliated and at the end of the sin assembly of violence, over 1,100 Kenyans had been killed.

Just like we have seen in Nigeria before, the Kenyan government sacrificed justice at the altar of political expediency. The Kenyan Government made feeble attempts bring to trail the perpetuators without much success and the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague was forced to step in. Charges have now been filed against 6 politicians, ex head of Police, a radio DJ and Government ministers for inciting the violence

The killing of Obi in Bauchi won’t be the first time people have run amok in the North. Far more people have been killed in Plateau state alone than in Kenya. People are killed at the drop of a hat in the North and Middle Belt and the Government appears helpless. We must now call on the ICC to intervene and try and break this cycle of the mindless slaughter of the innocent people in the North. The facts are all there, just as in Kenya; people were incited and primed to wreak maximum havoc in the event of results not favoring them. Even after the elections we had the likes of Alhaji Buba Galadima of the CPC still going on BBC Hausa service to spew hate.  I have previously written about the climate of hate that surrounded CPC rallies prior to the elections and frankly it is no surprise that violence broke out. What is surprising is that yet again, the security forces were caught flat footed. How could they not have known that CPC supporters were going to embark on an sin assembly of violence?

It is doubtful if President Jonathan has the political spine to bring the murders to book. I suspect the killing of Obi and that of many others in this latest sin assembly of violence will be swept under the carpet by the Government for the sake of political expediency or “national unity”. We need to tell the government that there is no more room under the carpet. The blood of Obi (and others) is calling for justice. It would be most disappointing if appeasement rather that justice is pursued by the government, killers must be brought to book and not rewarded. If the Government feels this is beyond them, they should then allow for the ICC to step in.

Missing Youth Corper, Ukeoma Aik Confirmed Dead!
 Mr. Ukeoma Aik was among the youth corpers killed in Bauchi State during the post-election violence on Sunday night.