Kidnapping: A New Scourge
The other day, the cousin of one of my dearest friends was kidnapped. The boy, a student of University of Jos, was kidnapped around Bauchi Road Jos. Luckily for my friend, her cousin escaped from the kidnappers hands by dint of luck. Today, in my area, as well as in most communities in Jos town, we don’t sleep at night. Gunshots every night because hoodlums are trying to break into homes to take away kids from their parents for ransom. My friend, Rev Dido, chaplain of the Plateau State Polytechnic, went to the gruesome experience of having his 10 year old child kidnapped by armed people who broke into his house in the night. The child returned to them after payment of ransom.
I am sure that the extravagant lifestyles of our elites in the face of crippling poverty in the country would come back to bite all of us one day. At some point in our recent history, kidnappings were a “Niger Delta thing” as militants agitated for resource control, but am afraid today we have “non-oil” kidnappings. It is now too common and sadly to frequent. The Nigerian elites – politicians, Top military, Police, Custom officers; bereaucrats etc – must get the message that they cannot continue in their ways and expect peace and safety. There is a lot of frustration, anger, bitterness and resentment in the land.
It is now a clear sign to the elites that when the blood relations of wealthy people are being kidnapped in exchange for ransom that we are no longer safe. You have a driver. You have a cook. You have a security guard. You have policemen guarding you. They are all human beings. They see things happening around them. They hear your phone conversations as you conduct your mindless transactions. They are hearing the mind-blowing figures. They see the movements of Ghana-Must-Go bags. In an attempt to ‘redistribute’ the loot, they will resort to kidnappings and demand ransoms. It is happening already. And it won’t stop soon (I dare say!). What with the classic case of super rich people like Evans and Wadume who made millions out of kidnapping! These is serving as a motivation for the growing army of jobless youths – educated or not.
Sadly, the anger in the land has made kidnapping so common that even the poor are being kidnapped as well.
I am only forewarning us on a disturbing development with the sole aim of gingering our leaders to act. Growing criminality is a product of our broken social system that deprives the majority of Nigerians the basics of life such as roads, water, healthcare, education, security and jobs. I am here fighting for social justice. I am warning the elites that they are not safe in their fortresses no matter how many police escorts they have.
As a philosopher said, all I am doing here is to hold up a mirror for the society to look at itself. Breaking the mirror — as many would do — would not change the picture. The inequality in Nigeria has been too much for too long. In a country where people lose their lives because they cannot afford drugs of N1,000, you have people buying private jets and flashy cars not from some hardwork but by feeding on the commonwealth. Our hospitals are rejecting poor patients because there is no bed space. Pupils are sitting on the floor to learn mathematics and English language in schools the governor or moinsiter cannot allow his children or relatives to attend. Such a society cannot escape doom. And no thanks to APC, Nigeria is now the poverty headquarters of the world.
What are our politicians thinking and doing as a way forward to this ugly menace? More policemen for them? More bullet-proof SUVs? More private jets? More Banana Islands? More signs of ‘military zone, keep off’?” I don’t know, but I have a hunch that more equitable management of resources could be of help. I suspect that more jobs, more housing, more medicine, more books, better roads, and better power supply would be of use. I suspect that less looting, less waste of resources would go some way. But if things continue the way they are, there is no doubt about it: one day, the long-suffering people of this country will react. They will rebel. I don’t know when, it might not even be in my life time, but they would rebel. And am not being a prophet of doom here.
The rebellion seems to be in full motion today as Nigerians groan under the pandemic of kidnapping, banditry, terrorism, internet fraud and all kinds of criminality. Worse still, the security system cannot protect either the rich or the poor. We should ask ourselves how we got here.
Sometimes back, I watched with amusement, as some members of the house of Reps took turns to lament the state of insecurity in the country. One speaker after the other complained that they can no longer travel to or sleep in their villages because of insecurity. They are overwhelmed by the army of criminals. However, they just cannot see a link between their greed — their obscene allowances, their extortion-driven oversight activities as well as the padded budgets — and the poverty and insecurity in the land. That is the problem with Nigerian politicians: they think Nigeria is like this by mistake. They think if we are able to deploy more troops, kidnapping will stop. If only it were that simple!
Let me say this yet again: the Nigerian ruling elite need to have a meeting, perhaps a “meeting of minds”, and agree to change their ways. We cannot continue to run a system of an overfed elite minority and a malnourished majority and expect to keep travelling to the village in glittering SUVs without consequences. How can a Governor or Senator have over 200 aides feeding on the scarce resources they have been entrusted to distribute and expect peace? No. It won’t work. We cannot run a system where the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer and expect peace. We have been living a lie for too long. Commonsense tells us that inequality comes with a price. We cannot sustain a system that ruins the lives of the majority of 200 million Nigerians and hope to sleep and snore at night.
A word is enough. Let us act now before it is too late

Xenophobia: Where Air Peace Goofed!
When the news broke, and heinous videos emerged online, that Nigerians were being killed in South Africa it sounded like a fairy tale. It was the kind of news that not even movie-script writers can ever imagined for their next movie. The videos of the xenophobic attacks showed a people too barbaric, cruel and uncivilised that the attackers should not belong among the human race. Because not even animals can do what man did, and is still doing, to man in South Africa.
But my major grouse is with Air Peace and its Chief Executive Officer, Mr Allen Onyema. They played an inglorious and shameful role of freely evacuating fellow Nigerians from South Africa while Nigerian government was busy contemplating or preparing (for weeks) how to give South Africa a proper dose of it’s own medicine. How dare Mr Onyema think he can play the role of the President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces? How dare he tried to outshine our government by trying to show that he cared more for Nigerians in South Africa than our government does?
Yes, granted that the Nigerian Government seemed a little slow in responding when the xenophobia and killings started, but what Mr Onyema did not know was that the government was busy preparing, holding consultations and analysing the videos of the killings that had surfaced online. And it responded appropriately through the Nigerian Minister of Information, Mr Lai Muhammed, that the videos that were trending then were either faked or doctored. Nigeria was getting ready to respond decisively against South Africa and prove to that post-Apartheid tiny nation that we are still the “Giant of Africa”. In Nigeria, we are slow to act, but that does not mean we are not acting behind the scene. The only mistake the attackers in South African did was that they did not attack our cows but humans. They would have seen a quicker and meteor-like response. We don’t joke here with our cows! The cowardice of the attackers showed when they went after humans not cows.
By evacuating Nigerians when the government was getting ready to either deploy crafts from the Presidential Fleet or from our National Air Carrier which Hadi Sirika (our Minister of Aviation) launched on July 18th 2018, at Farnborough Air Show in London, Mr Onyema, in my view, has committed treason. He has rendered the government and our National Carrier (Nigeria Air) useless and made himself looked like the President of Nigeria in the eyes of the world. Is Onyema aware the financial commitment of the Nigerian government to establish a new National Carrier to replace the comatose Nigeria Airways? Let me remind him if he has forgotten that the Federal Government allocated the sum of N555 million for the establishment of the National Carrier and N200 million for consultancy, while in 2018 budget, N50 million was allocated for the establishment and another N20 million was apportioned for consultancy. (Guardian Newspaper online, 19 Sept., 2018).
How can Onyema trash these efforts of the government? That is why I said this is treason! He portrayed himself as the President of Nigeria (to the whole world). He should be arrested for treason and investigated because he did what even Sowore did not do. Thank God even the South African authorities made him realise that he is not the President of Nigeria by initially denying Air Peace landing permit for hours. If he has allowed the Nigerian government to do the evacuation, the South African authorities would have cringed and granted us swift landing permit.
Even our Pastors who have private jets stayed in their places. They did not send their jets to evacuate Nigerians because they are law abiding citizens, but Onyema wanted to prove otherwise. How dare he run a government within a government in a Nigeria? He took charge of the situation without recourse to the government and Nigerians never voted for him to act as our chief security officer? Onyema should remain what he is, Citizen Onyema!

This is a private discourse between me and The Lord Himself
WATCHING GIRLS: LORD, ARE YOU THERE?
Dear Lord, these are some thoughts in an aeroplane – you have a minute? – about 30,000 feet up in the sky.
Seems a good time to talk to you, as am nearby.
If you don’t mind, I’ll sort of lead up to what I want to ask you about.
Coming straight out with it may be…
Kind of… if you know what I mean.
And who let’s face it, knows it better than you what I mean?
So, 30,000 feet up. Aeroplane. Not much to do. No movie on this flight (Just Abuja to Lagos). And I’ve no book.
Nothing to look at except the stewardesses.
And worth the trouble, Lord (I’m an expert).
One fair-complexioned and smiling, brown-eyed, the other dark and glowing. They move and turn and stretch and bend, all of them seductively beautiful and inviting.
Quite unaware of the pleasure they give, to me, a lifelong “girl-watcher”.
Girl-watching, Lord. The subject of our talk. The feasting of the eyes; the constant appreciation of the miracle you created with one borrowed rib.
A tempter of Adam, yes;
Of all Adams since, yes,
But a marvelous invention, Lord.
On behalf of all Adams, our sincere thanks.
30,000 feet up or at ground level,
Our sincere thanks.
There are many kinds of Girl-watching, Lord. About as many as there are kinds of men.
Ranging from the groaning ” Kai…!”
To the “Wow…!”
From the look of wide-eyed wonder,
To the hooded swift undressing piercer.
From the calypso, blues to the psalm,
From Solomon’s Song to Pornography.
Lord, what made Adam look, made Samson look.
And King David and Bill Clinton, and me.
Anything wrong in it, Lord? Sometimes i worry. Girl-watching found me a good wife, but marrying her in no way ended
the habit.
House-making, fatherhood, bread-winning, career-building, all made room for it.
Later, older, more academic, a lengthy research in Biblical matters and related religions didn’t stop it for a minute.
Nothing stops it. Not care or concern nor sadness, nor irritation nor illness – not even funerals, Lord.
Black does nice things for a woman…
Anything wrong in it, Lord?
Surely not. After all, that man should be
attracted to a woman was your idea.
Good thinking, dear Creator.
True Girl-watching, Lord, the real stuff,
rarely initiates any action in the matter.
It should stir the imagination, not the loins.
The delight is for the eyes alone.
Lust clouds the vision, and should have no place.
A distinguished Watcher friend once said: “To be near enough to touch or to smell perfume or to see the breasts is too near. An exchange of words, too, has its dangers and should be avoided. One should Watch from a little way off.”
A longish quote, Lord, but I thought you
Might be interested.
Anything wrong in it, dear Friend?
These thoughts high in the sky, Lord,
are prompted not just by the desire to
give thanks on behalf of all Adams,
Not just to show gratitude for the so-close-to-hea
ven experience,
But to say again how much I
appreciate what you do for me.
Girl-watching could only have been given by you, dear Friend. The Adams didn’t make it up, any more than they made anything else without your help.
And, older now, I see your infinite wisdom.
For Girl-watching is a solace, Lord.
A comfort, a joy, a gift, a harmless delight.
Which warms the eye and soul of a man
When his other fires are dying a little…

PASTOR: All your uncles in the village fighting your destiny, fall down and die
WORSHIPPERS: Amen….
PASTOR: Any relative or anyone blocking your way, if they don’t repent, they won’t see the new year.
WORSHIPPERS: Amen
PASTOR: May all your foes, die before December…
WORSHIPPERS: Amen….
The above is the scenario that would likely play out in some churches across Nigeria today. I want all those who are reading this column to do some exercise in Church today. When you get to church, look at the front row – that part of the Church that you only see on flatscreens even though you are in the same Church hall because you are never close enough to the space; that part of the church where affluent and superflous politicians and assorted rich government elites sit because he weight of their tithes and offerings make them dignitaries and VIPs; look at that front row very well, you will see those blocking your way and progress by looting your present and mortgaging your future.
Do not shout “amen” at the prayer invocation of your pastor over some poor old uncle in the village who does not even know you exist until you come around for Christmas or Easter with schnapps for him. Leave your grandmother alone and do not answer AMEN to prayers that she she die before December. Half of the time she is just so incoherent.
The real enemies blocking your progress will be seated today in the front row in your swanky churches in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harccourt, Jos, Kaduna, Benin, Umuahia etc. They will be ushered in by ushers because they are very important people. And your Pastor would call them out for special prayers and anointing. They give the fattest offerings.
When you get to church, please take a hard look at them and leave your relatives and the witches in your village out of the matter. These people in the front row of the church looted the monies meant for your hospitals, roads, employments, educational infrastructure, and for your general well being. They drive around in fine dark screened SUVs with monies meant for a dispensary in the village where your relatives could have gotten panadol or but for their theivery. They looted the monies meant for your schools and sent their own kids abroad for studies.
I am getting tired of this relentless solicitation to hate and curse but if you must do it, start from the front row of your church. Our pastors are busy pointing us to the wrong enemies. While the real enemies (the looters) fraternise with our Men Of God and are buying luxury cars, SUVs and sometimes even Private Jets for the Men of Go(l)d, the pastors are showing us our relatives and uncles and grandmothers as the real enemies.
Take it from me. Our enemies are in the front row of the Church. Look at them, in their fine brocades and their wives bedecked in rich embroidery and gold from Dubai as they sit in the place of honour in Church.
They are the real enemies you ought to “bind and loose”.
Leave your grandfather alone. Allow him some quiet moments as he dreams of a time long ago when his blood was hot.

Davidson Rotshak Lar JP is a pastor and a police officer serving at Plateau State Police Command.

SANGO’S SECRET PLANS AGAINST PDP EXPOSED.

By J. T .Akans. ksm, fcia SPS.

To start with, Immanuel Kant a Greek philosopher once said,I quote ” in every ethical theory ” the morality of an action should be based on whether the action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based your imagination and ignorance on the consequences of that action ” Immanuel Kant believed that reason is the source of morality and that aesthetics arise from faculty of disinterred judgment, he went further to say that,” the rightness or wrongness of an actions does not depend on their consequence but on whether they fulfill our duty or obligations, and that, there is a supreme principle of morality which is “SELF” self is a sense of humour that create perception, in my local understanding of this, is that your perception will give you respect, integrity and above all a sense of reasoning .

With this, you will agree with me on the same thought as that of Immanuel Kant while attempting to write the history of plateau politics and indeed our party the PDP, this will be incomplete if failed to mention the likes of leaders who shared the same thoughts like Immanuel Kant such as chief Dr S.D.Lar, Da D B Zang , Michael Audu Buba, Patrick Dokatri, Rev Lot and others too many to mention, may their souls all continued to rest in peace.

These great men were warhorses in politics and in leadership position, where their moral philosophical believe was never in doubt, today we have in similar manner great men that have distinguished themselves to this position, the likes of Sen J .D .Jang who is also an old warhorse, Ambassador F. N.Tapgun, Prof Shown ,Prof Lombin, these great men are not a chicken spring in politics of plateau and indeed Nigeria that can be easily scheme out of the arena.

Also, we should know that Politics is not a one hand mathematics the way someone have been calculating over the years on how to became governor in this state busy perfecting and plotting different pattern of draft on how to Slough out prominent leaders out of the political arena for his personal gain with a mission of destruction in his mind because he has made several attempt to be governor of this state but God haven’t seen his bad intention stopped him, today the metamorphosis of this attempts and plans are in other form of ethnic division in the state having attempted to be the flag bearer of 2019 when his thinking did not work inline with the zoning which was a decision unanimous agreed on by our elders and other critical stakeholders on a view of zoning the governorship to the southern zone, where he Sango put a close ” that the zoning should be for the purpose of 2019 elections only ” this moves was in preparation to denied the central zone come 2023 for his interest, again and again when this failed he quickly plot to be the running mate for the 2019 governorship, same it did not worked as usual his plans all failed as God has already put a full stop to his bad intentions.

Today this man is pretentiously wearing an innocent face in abide to defraud the people again, let us not forget so soon that a look of a chameleon is dangerous to our existence because if you are close when it changes it’s colors you will be the victim, particularly like Sango who claim to have the arithmetics and doggedness of politics.

I tell you dining with such a person will be like you are throwing your last vote into a deep sea that contains sharks which it will be very difficult for you to retrieve your vote back, it will have to take the grace of professional diver that will dive into the ocean to save you out of that terrible situation, “just as we are experiencing under Sango today”.Are you not seeing the color of a chameleon? .

The question is, can Sango slough off Senator Jang Amb Tagun, Prof Shown ,Prof Lombin, and other great personalities who have over the years contributed to the success of democracy out of the political equation of plateau state? Can this men be relegated as a small fry in plateau Politics,? as done to them by Sango? Yet this is a man that kneeled before these same great men to beg for help and forgiveness, “the answer to this is at your own peril”.

This is not to gentrify the capacity of other born politicians that have equally done their best whom space and time will not be enough to mention them here as my android phone is too small, I bought it 15k only 😂😂.

But to put the matter in it’s right perspective. That someone who have been rejected by executive and members of the party across the state for lack of trust and for exhibiting high level of leadership deficiency and fraud is still here shamefully parading himself as the state chairman as if the party is his block industry, “Sango is indeed a general without troops”. it will interest you to know that this same man was all along bestriding the threshold in a skeptic manner a move that was more dangerous than pressing an exit button Sango is indeed a skeptics

At least we can now heave a sigh that we know his hidden motive, which side of the divide he belongs now . But, we are more equipped in knowing his sloughing attitude to others which should not be allowed to get into a binge to forget that he is a political colossus but unfortunately he is not,he can only deceive those that have low level of epistemological thinking in politics.

Sango’s arithmetics has been exposed knowing very well that he only believes in dividing the people than uniting the people and he is currently trying to plant those who share in the same skepticism attitude with him who are still here with us , even may be on this platform reading this my post with a guffaw.

My brother, the danger of politics is that if you are not epistemologically equipped to understand this type of character, then you are doom my brother, they will defraud you of your wealth, ideas, your potentiality and even your future will be at risks.

The annoying part of it is that this man Sango is focusing on destroying mostly young men who are embodied with the idealism of greatness with great future hope. it is on this note that we are advising the younger generation not to go close, don’t go close to this character called Sango, or else you will come and give us the story on how it started which we don’t want to hear that anyway, ” to be wise is to for armed, 2019 PDP governorship aspirants all have one story or the other to tell today on their experience with Shongo.

Please before venturing into the arena you should know and have it at the back of your mind that this characters are habitually available in the arena.

This people , that’s if they are many here.

Their only mission is to pull you down particularly those that help in building them up ,they will walk on you with their foot as soon as they are privileged to be in a position with your kind help and assistance,Sango once told us that if you are crowd as a king by king makers, try and kill the king makers otherwise he will dethrone you again. Hmmmm this is a supposed leader indeed.

Someone once said to me during our first week in office after our election, that the person we brought as a party to Chair us is in serious financial hemorrhage, for that reason he can sale you, he is a known political trader who is out to achieve his personal interest that he is ready to sacrifice everybody for his personal gain, he will never defend the interest of the people as he is well known for that. Hmmmm i winked at this elder statesman still in the doubt of his submission to me, I now immediately remembered that in Nigeria it takes no time to inject new air into a deflated balloon, just like what Baba Lar used to tell us about them then.

This submission here is for us to save the future of plateau and PDP from ethnic division as embarked upon by Sango we are aware of his meeting with some selected elders of a local government in northern zone pursuing his destructive agenda against some of our elder statesmen on how to divide the party in that regard, which we are all aware, rather than building trust he is busy destroying particularly in the senatorial zone which he belongs.

The party needs to stand. It must be steadied on it’s two legs. This is not a time for showboating , it’s a moment to reflect. We need to tell our former chairman that we know much about him , and what he should know, not what we feel he wants to hear. Some people growl and roar behind the scenes and come out with a fatuous smile like my friend who is his chief scrip writer from behind.That’s the danger in politics and the challenges that Victory comes with.

With this attitude of a supposed leader, how can the remaining PDP leaders in the state continued keeping mute about this, it is time for us to all come together as one and plan on how to strengthen this party before it collapse under Sango, or is it by keeping quiet that we will be strong as a party?

We all have to come out of this cage now,let’s be ourselves (SELF), remember SELF is a bundle of perceptions like in a chain, we all have to use ability to see,hear, and become aware of something that is negatively happening around us using our sense before it consumed us all” DAVID HUME said our concepts of SELF is a result of our natural habit of attributing a unified existence to our collectivity as human beings.

For how long shall we allow him to keep on destroying us and we seat and watch,? how long shall we continue to be quite about this atrocity of one man,

With this how can our
members have a sense of belonging and truly stand by the party without season?

How can the youths from all axis turn to a willing ‘evangelists ” of the party and redouble their efforts to put the party on a sound footing?

Without providing the needed leadership that worth emulation, How can the citizens who are majorly apolitical continue to see PDP as the only option ? With Sango in.

I think and believe we are in the side of the majority, I agree with Mark Twain who says, when you are on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect on truth and not fiction

So I argued us all to pause and reflect on the days ahead, where the future of next generation of plateau is, 2023 is not that far away, beside it is not yet over with the 2019 mandate that was freely given to us, until we reach the end of that matter at the supreme court before we will believe that it is over for 2019.

Thank you and God bless.

God strengthen our party ,God strengthen our Governorship candidate Baba J T Useni and God bless our leaders , reward us all.

John Telpak Akans is the State Publicity Secretary of People’s Democratic Party PDP, Plateau State.

  

Fulani community in Plateau State has expressed worries over alleged continued marginalisation and ethnic discrimination by the government of Governor Simon Lalong.

The Fulani community under the auspices of Jonde Jam Fulani Youths Association of Nigeria said since the inception of Gov Lalong’s administration five years ago, nomadic education has been left to collapse, as no Fulani children have access to basic education in the state.

It also alleged that no political appointment has been given to any Fulani man in spite of their massive support for governor at the polls.

In a press statement issued in Jos yesterday by national president of the group, Alhaji Sa’Idu Maikano, all efforts by the Fulani to draw the attention of Lalong to the marginalisation of their people in the state have yielded no positive response.

According to the statement: “We are not pleased to report that nomadic education has collapsed in Nigeria. Let me cite example with Plateau State which might also be applicable to most states in the country. Nomadic primary schools in Plateau State were 126 before the creation of Nasarawa State from Plateau. Plateau State was left with 86 nomadic schools. But today, the functional nomadic schools in Plateau cannot exceed 20 and the state government did nothing to develop them. This long neglect has led to the collapse of nomadic education in Plateau State.

It also stated that “there is serious need for restructuring of nomadic education, as this will also enhance the government’s plans for Ruga settlement.

“Finally, education plays a key role in the socio-economic development of the Nigerian society. Despite the importance of education, many Fulani children are not enjoying it. Policies by some state governments, proximity, mobility, lack of fund, faulty curriculum designs are some of the reasons of partial participation of the Fulani in public schools.”

The group urged the federal government to “as a matter of urgency, come to the rescue of nomadic education in Plateau.”

They also called on Lalong to “run an all inclusive government.”

Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), has said they are secured under the leadership of Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau state. The group said under Lalong herdsmen moves freely in all parts of the state without being molested. Miyetti Allah stated this on Friday in a press briefing in Jos, championed by the former National Youth Leader of the Association and Chairman of Concerned Fulani Youths of Plateau State Alh. Abdulkarim Bayero. Bayero was however refuting claims by National President of Jonde Jam Fulani Youths Association of Nigeria, Alh. Sa’Idu Maikano, who said that Lalong has neglected the Fulani Community in Plateau for five years. “Fulani on the Plateau now live in peace and this is as a result of the measures put in place by Governor Lalong. “The Governor constituted a committee under the Plateau Peace Building Agency comprising of 7 Fulani and 7 people from the Berom ethnic group, who are the major conflicting parties in the state. The Committee made recommendations on what need to be done to enthrone peace, since then there has been relative peace in the state.” Read Also: Equities market declines by N112bn over investors sustained profit-taking Bayero explained that the governor had also constituted a committee under the leadership of Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Northern Nigeria Rev. Yakubu Pam to tackle the farmers-herders clashes in Plateau. He noted that all Fulani, Imams and community leaders as well as Pastors and Berom community leaders are members of the community which has worked assiduously for the current peace in the state. “We wrote through PLASMEDA to the Governor’s former SSA on Fulani matters to request for assistance and the Governor approved it. The State Government through, PLASMEDA purchased 30 cattle. “Prof. Sharubutu was invited to give orientation to some selected Fulani Youths from the 17 LGA on how to rear the cattle using morden technics. Some LGA got three while others got two, the Governor promised to buy more if those ones are rear well”, Bayero said.

The soccer world mourns Promise Isaac, who captained Nigeria to the 2008 Olympic silver medal and scored 79 goals in 11 professional seasons in Turkey, died after collapsing at his apartment gym in Austin, Texas. He was just 31.
Promise Isaac was playing for the Austin Bold of the USL and the team said he died Wednesday night. Police said authorities were called after a report of a deceased person at Isaac’s apartment building but further details were not available. Austin Bold owner Bobby Epstein said Isaac collapsed at the apartment gym and no foul play was suspected.
Isaac played for Nigeria at the 2005 World Youth Championship and captained the Under-23 national team that lost the 2008 Olympic final 1-0 to Lionel Messi and Argentina. He also appeared in three matches for Nigeria’s senior national team.
Previously, he played for seven clubs in Turkey, appearing in more than 350 matches. He spent also spent a season in Saudi Arabia before signing with Austin Bold, where he had three goals in 20 matches this season.

POLICE ARREST A LADY WHO SPECIALIZES IN SNATCHING MOTORCYCLES IN KATSINA STATE.

The Katsina State Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old lady, Zinatu Abubakar, who is allegedly fond of drugging commercial motorcycle operators and snatching of motorcycles in the State.

In a statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, S. P. Gambo Isa, and made available to newsmen on Thursday in Katsina it was said that the suspect belonged to a syndicate of notorious thieves operating in the state.

S. P. Isa said the suspect drugged a motorcyclist, Gide Wada, who was conveying her from Kofar-Kaura to Sokoto Rima Quarters in Katsina metropolis.

The police spokesman said Wada had to park his motorcycle when he started becoming drowsy after he ate a piece of chocolate the suspect gave to him as they were moving to her destination.

According to him, it was after the victim parked the motorcycle that he became unconscious and the suspects’ accomplices, one Abubakar and Chairman, now at large, attempted to snatch the motorcycle.

He explained that the accomplices ran into the bush when the condition of the motorcyclist attracted the attention of people nearby, who apprehended Zinatu and handed her over to the police.

Isa claimed that the suspect had confessed to having been committing such offenses in Kaduna and Kano states, adding that the police were on the trail of her accomplices.

He advised Okada riders and commercial drivers not to take food from people they know nothing about, so as not to become victims of robbery

Prince Rotdunna Sekat the Yandar Ngas as he is fondly called was born forty something years ago to the family of His Royal Highness Nde Solomon B. Sekat, Ngolong Kor, Belning Ward Headquarters of Pankshin Local Government Council..

He did his primary and secondary school both in Pankshin, a very brilliant young man who is naturally gifted attended Plateau State Polytechnic from 2002 and graduated in 2004,in his quest for more knowledge, Prince Rotdunna Sekat secured admission to study Political Science at the famous University of Jos in 2005,his ambition was cut short in 2006 when his blossom friend was killed innocently by cult group, this infuriated him to avenge the death of his friend which led to his leaving the school completely in anger over the killing of his best friend, Prince Sekat was a staff of National Electric Power Authority who metamorphosis to Power Holding Company, he later moved to Delta in 2007 and join the Niger Delta Power Holding Company where he spent three years before returning to Plateau State.

Sekat’s journey into politics started since 1992 during SDP, he actively participated in the process yhat brought Obasanjo in 1999,in 2003 Prince Sekat was arrested on the orders of Chief Joshua Cibi Dariye the then governor of Plateau State for circulating fliers written by him that Da Jonah David Jang was the winner of the 2003 General election with more than 47,000 votes not Dariye, that production and circulation irk Dariye who hunt and arrested Prince Sekat, he was released after three weeks at 3th Armoured Division Guard room.

Prince Sekat while in Niger Delta, secured admission with Adamawa State University, Mubi in 2008 to study Business Administration and Management, a course he managed to complete due to lack of resources in 2014,while in school, Prince Sekat was recruited and trained in Israel as the first pioneers of Operation Rainbow 🌈 a security outfit established by Da Jonah David Jang in 2012. Prince Sekat also has Basic Certificate in Fire Prevention and Control from Fire Service Training School Bukuru, near Jos.

Prince Sekat was appointed member, media sub Committee in 2014/2015 Campaign while in PDP, he was also a Director in the Greater Together movement of late GNS Pwajok, and after loosing the Governorship elections, Prince Sekat supported Hon Bitrus Kaze for PDP Chairmanship position and later left PDP to APC in 2016 sighting internal wrangling for his reason of leaving the party. Prince Sekat, a courageous and fearless young man of Ngas origin works tirelessly for Governor Lalong and APC on the Plateau and Nigeria at large, he was appointed Special Assistant (SA) to the Governor of Plateau State on ICT an office he held from July 2018 until May 29th 2019, Prince Sekat was appointed as member, Protocol, Media and Publicity sub Committee of the 2019 Lalong/Tyoden Campaign Organisation which return them elected during the general election.

Prince Sekat is also a member of Gagdi Campaign Organisation, he faces thought time campaigning for Gagdi especially in his word Belning and Pankshin in general where Christians are the majority and Timothy Golu of PDP is a Christian, at the end of the election, his principal, Gagdi emerged victorious, though Sekat was called all sort of names but that did not deterred him as he is known for one thing, *LOYALTY*, *DEDICATION AND HARD WORK*

Prince Sekat was recently appointed by Rt Hon Yusuf Adamu Gagdi member Representing the good people of Pankshin, Kanke and Kanam Federal Constituency in the House of Reps as his Special Assistant (SA) on Media and Publicity, Sekat is also in 300L reading Criminology and Security Studies at National Open University of Nigeria, Jos, the general public are waiting anxiously to see whether Lalong will reward him for loyalty, hard work and dedication in defending the government and APC in Plateau State and Nigeria at large or not, that will be known in the next couple of months.

Josiah Habila, writes from Abuja, Nigeria.