*NEWS HEADLINES FOR MONDAY 20TH AUGUST 2018.*

*PUNCH*


Jailing of looters: Start with APC members, PDP, OBJ group tell Buhari

Govt to shut Third Mainland Bridge for four days

2019 polls budget: Saraki hits executive, says it lacks foresight

Outrage as Oyo demolishes Ayefeles N800m radio station, studio

Certificate forgery: PDP accuses APC of witch-hunt over police invitation to Adeleke

Robbers kill Catholic priest while shopping in FCT

Dogara seeks reforms in education curriculum

Zamfara banditry claims 3,000 lives, gulps N17bn SSG

10,000 Nigerians forced into prostitution yearly in Italy NAPTIP DG

Senator demands audit of National Assembly budget under Saraki


*VANGUARD*


PDP, APC, Nigeria's problem 'Presidential aspirant

Tanker accident leaves commuters, motorists stranded on Lagos'Ibadan Expressway

A-Ibom govt files N50bn suit against EFCC over frozen accounts

1,650 resign membership of Apc in Edo

Defections: Tinubu, Tambuwal tango

PFN to politicians: Don't plunge Nigeria into avoidable crisis

2019: Hardship'll make Nigerians vote PDP 'Okom

Defections in A-Ibom impracticable 'Ibom Patriots

Amuro on music as art of worship and evangelism

We're determined to rid Delta of fake, counterfeit drugs 'Ononye


*THE NATION*


Tinubu: Saraki, Tambuwal left APC for fear of Buhar
i
INEC, Wike disagree over failed Rivers by-election

N3.5b London-Paris Club refund: EFCC set for trial of ex-bank MD, Sarakis aide

79,000 Nigerians among two million pilgrims

Outcry as Oyo demolishes Ayefeles Music House

Tambuwals 252 aides resign

DisCos fault govts directive on generation below optimal level

I wont defect to PDP, Governor Bindow insists

No plan by Emmanuel to join APC, say PDP chiefs, others

Agric financing: New rules, new hopes


*THISDAY*


Falana Urges Buhari to Sign New Electoral Bill

Ekiti LG Workers Begin StrikeThursday

Nigeria's Education System Deficient, Says Dogara

Omokri Berates Fashola
Akpabio Hails Ugwuanyi on Peace, Good Governance

IPOB Alleges Arrest of Women Demanding Kanu's Release

We Have Spent over N17bn Tackling Insecurity, Says Zamfara SSG

315,000 PVC Yet To Be Claimed in Kwara, Says REC

Adams Cautions Candidates in Osun Governorship Poll

Osoba Urges National Assembly to Reconvene


*THE SUN*


Saraki, Tambuwal left APC because they wanted automatic tickets, says Tinubu

NLNG: FG restates commitment to commencement of Train-7 ' Adeosun

FG inaugurates TWC for $20bn Ogidigben industrial gas park

Dano Milk receives Guinness World Records certificate

China renews commitment to deepen investments in Nigeria

DISCOs urge FG to tackle transmission challenges

Lawmakers to APC: Saraki not cause of your failure

Buhari won't shield any corrupt party member ' APC

Treasury looters: Start with your party members, PDP tells Buhari

NUJ presidential aspirant flays demolition of Ayefele's Music House


*GUARDIAN*


Business economists say Trump tariffs will harm US

Practitioners decry loss of $1 billion on medical tourism

JED worker electrocuted, family alleges conspiracy

Lagos to closedown Third Mainland Bridge for four days

Insurance inclusion policy for 40m adults in rural communities

Lagos shortlists firms for water privatisation

NSE's'bell ringing' elicits reactions, as stakeholders differ on market's impact

Odubote, Falola make case for credible 2019 polls

Mutual Benefits Assurance opens N2b rights issues

DisCos flay TCN's N72 billion investment in networks


*DAILY TRUST*


EFCCs missteps over Benue accounts

Ex-ambassador joins Gombe govship race

Suspended Rivers by-election: APC lauds electorate for defending votes

ANN, a party with unique value system - Ex-Speaker

Tambuwal's 250 aides resigned to pre-empt planned sack

APC scribe Idde joins Nasarawa guber race in search of power shift

Stop peddling lies against Obasanjo, group tells Soyinka, Tinubu

Aremu calls for issues-based politics

FCT minister inaugurates MSMEs council

As Buhari meets Trump


*TRIBUNE*


PDP condemns demolition of Ayefele's studio

World Humanitarian Day: Ohaneze advocates improved funds for aid workers

Governorship aspirant promises purposeful leadership in Plateau

Eid-el-Kabir: Police beef up security in Ekiti State

Account for N2.5bn health insurance funds, Omisore charges Aregbesola

Ekweremadu: APC tele-guiding EFCC, ICPC against opposition

INEC budget: Presidency attacks Saraki

APC Govs, power brokers at loggerheads over Direct Primaries

Tambuwal loses 252 aides to APC

Government isn't giving PR recognition it deserves 'Ekine, CEO, Absolute PR


*LEADERSHIP*


IBB: Celebrating The People's General At 77

Reps Urge PMB To Order Immediate Arrest Of Oshiomhole

By-election: Wike Accuses Police Of Declaring War On Rivers People

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NEC Budget: Saraki Deliberately Driving Nigeria To Cliff Edge ' Presidency

500 Horse Riders For Ilorin Durbar

Oyo Govt Gets Knock For Demolishing Ayefele's N800m Music House

FG's Agriculture Policy Intervention Strengthening Smallholder Farmers

Traders Disguise Local Rice As Foreign To Deceive Buyers ' Customs

Understanding Nuances Of Tyre Inflation, Others


*DAILY INDEPENDENT*


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Yakubu: INEC Biting More Than It Can Chew

Crisis Looms In NASS As Staff Vows To Resist Inter-Service Transfer

Ballot Snatching, Disorderliness Mar Rivers By-Election

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INEC's Registration Of New Parties: Matters Arising

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*BUSINESSDAY*


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Saraki: Oshiomhole's impeachment plot hits the rocks

When cheap money eludes small industries

We are very focused on bringing local investment into domestic opportunities

We need national strategy to create manufacturing renaissance'Dow

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Abiriba And Ohafia

For over 200 years, the people of Ohafia and Abiriba have shared a common boundary. Yet, they have shared diametrically opposite world-views. While the one lived in a pre-colonial world where the love of military glory was a consuming passion, the other was a wealthy black smith and a long distance traveler. To date, they have maintained two parallel lines: while the one loves education, the other loves busines.

OHAFIA and Abiriba, two communities located in the northern part of Abia State, are like twins separated by a few kilometres of expanse of land. But, even as they share a common boundary, one sharply contrasts the other in so many ways. Sometimes, nature, in its infinite wisdom, helped in scripting what has come to make one distinct from the other. As the saying goes in the two communities, it takes only a trained eye to see the difference.

Yet, Ohafia and Abiriba share certain fundamental practices in common. It appears that after over 200 years of living close to each other, they could not help sharing some practices, one being the matrilineal system, in which a woman inherits property from her father’s home. The child from such a marriage still traces his descent through his father, but relies more on his maternal side for his upbringing.

This practice has been used to explain why Ohafia and Abiriba women hardly married outsiders, until in recent times. In the two communities, women are seen as assets to their families. An Ohafia or Abiriba woman would never get so serious with a stranger as to marry him. If she does, it implies that she has depleted the family’s resources. On its own, the act will be a breakaway from the norm.

Another common feature is the age-grade system. Over the years, the system has become a vehicle for development, more especially in Abiriba, where all projects in the area are associated with one age grade or the other. There is an inexplicable sense of mission among succeeding generations to take up projects in the community that will surpass the performance of their predecessors.

Beyond that, the Ohafia and Abiriba people have maintained their distinctness, and a stranger who understands the rules can easily separate one from the other. The dialects of Igbo language spoken in both areas vary in a way. While the Ohafia man rebukes a mischievous child by saying: “Ifula nwantaa!”, the Abiriba man says: “Kalaa nwantoo!”. The Abiriba man says, Iwo, for anger, while his Ohafia counterpart says, Iwe. Husband is Ji, in Abiriba, and di, in Ohafia. To say, ‘Look at it’, in Ohafia, they say Le ya, and Kala ya in Abiriba.

Nature has also played a part in it, if the contrasting topographies of the two communities are taken into consideration. Unlike Ohafia, which is on a plain land, Abiriba is clustered over an undulating hilly outlay, and boundaries demarcating villages are hardly seen. Some of the exotic architectural designs that can be found in Nigeria dot the hilltops, giving the community the name, ‘Small London’.

Although the people of Ohafia are beginning to match their Abiriba counterparts in terms of infrastructure, the area still wears a more rural outlook than Abiriba. In Abiriba, the Abiriba Communal Improvement Union, through the use of mutually competitive age-grades, spearheads development efforts in such a way that electricity, pipe-borne water and tarred roads, without the assistance of the government, reach a greater part of the community. There appears to be a deliberate attempt among the people to remain close to each other all the time

Abiriba is a community of shrewd businessmen. The Abiriba man loves and follows the whiff of money to wherever it takes him, and no matter the risk involved. Over time, the quest for wealth has led him through thick and thin, to have business links traversing the entire West Africa, with tentacles stretching as far as Europe, America and the Far East. Abiriba is a specialist trading community and one of the wealthiest communities in Igboland. A striking feature of trade and industry in Aba is the prominent role played by Abiriba people. Unlike Nnewi, in Anambra State, where businessmen have located the bulk of their industries at home, the Abiriba man has practically no industry in his land. Instead, the traders and industrialists have, since the end of the Nigerian Civil War in 1970, tended to concentrate their activities in Aba, where they have good relations with Ngwa people and little difficulty gaining access to land. Of the 29 companies, including the two largest employers listed in Tom Forrest’s Makers and Making of Nigerian Private Enterprise published in 1994, 11 of them are owned by Abiriba businessmen.

The Abiriba man is restless and always on the move. When he is fortunate to move up the ladder, he takes along somebody from his community. He does not believe that he should be the only rooster that crows in the town. “No man”, the saying goes in Abrirba “no matter how successful, can bury himself when he dies. He needs other successful people to give him a befitting burial”. Or, “No one person, no matter how rich or successful, can kill a cow and eat it alone. The enjoyment of it is in the sharing”.

As the Abiriba man travels, pursuing his business interests from one end of the globe to the other, there is an unwritten rule among the people that he must bring home whatever he finds in foreign lands that will be of benefit to his people. He does not build a house simply because he needs a roof over his head. When he does, he leaves his personality imprinted on the architectural design, and the building has to be the first of its kind in the community.

In all of these, the Abiriba man has one shortcoming: he did not embrace formal education when his neighbour, the Ohafia man, did and, so, the first generation of Abiriba businessmen was largely illiterate. To the Abiriba man, it was money before any other thing. But, in recent times, education has become vital to him. Somewhere along the line, he seemed to have realized that he may have all the money, but that without education, he may not know how to control or reinvest it. It took the Abiriba man a long time to realize the importance of education. But, before he did, his Ohafia counterpart had made hay, entrenching himself in the bureaucracy. He began with the teaching profession. Education was the main industry in the area. To the Ohafia man, no profession was as noble as teaching. It became so much of an obsession that every child born in the area looked forward to became a teacher.

Today, while the Abiriba community boasts of wealthy traders and industrialists, the children of these teachers in Ohafia are found in the academia and the professionals and control the political machinery in the area. Before you can count on your five fingers Abiriba men who have attained the academic rank of professor, Ohafia has counted over 50 of them and more politicians, both at the federal and state levels. Indeed, the Ohafia man had a head start. But, does he know that he owes it all to Eke Kalu, the former slave and an unsung hero, who was born about 1875 in Elu Ohafia and sold into slavery; who went as far as the present Cross River and Rivers states; was sent to school; and later promoted the overseer of the house of his master, Chief Mini Epele of Opobo, before his triumphal return to his family in Ohafia? It is not certain how Ohafia and Abiriba came to be in their present locations. There are as many versions as there are people telling the stories. However, the stories agree that the two communities originated from different sources. While some trace their origin to Israel, others trace it to Egypt and, sometimes, to the Bantus in East Africa. All the accounts agree that the forebears of Ohafia people migrated from Isi-Eke, from a place called Umuajiji, in Ubeku, Umuahia, while those of Abiriba migrated from Ene, in today’s Cross River.

The Ohafia people, the story goes, left Andoli and settled in Isi-Eke, from where they ran away. One night, it was said, the people heard the rattling sound of calabashes. The sound was interpreted to mean that they were being invaded. A commotion ensued. As some of them escaped toward Ngodo, others went towards Isuochi. At one point, some of them headed towards Abam. Leading the group heading to Abam, was a man known as Ezeama Atita, and two sons called Uduma Ezeama and Onyereobi Ezeama. When they got to Abam, Onyereobi’s wife, who was heavy with pregnancy, could no longer walk. He,

therefore, remained in Abam with his pregnant wife, while the group continued on the journey. In the present location of Ohafia; at a place called Ugwumgbo, Ezeama Atita, and his second son, Uduma, settled.  After many years, their offspring established the 26 villages that make up today’s Ohafia.

The ancestral headquarters of Ohafia is in Elu Ohafia. Each village is governed by an eze ogo. All the eze ogo’s come together to form the Eze Ogo-in-Council, which, with the amala, decides how the community is to be governed. The overall traditional ruler, Udumeze, who lives in Elu Ohafia, intervenes only when there is a matter between an eze ogo and a subject.

In the past, the culture of Ohafia was hinged around one’s prowess in war. They were constantly on the lookout for wars in which to take part. They became something like mercenaries and the people of Arochukwu, who were all over Igboland ‘hunting’ for slaves, harnessed this warlike spirit in Ohafia people to their own advantage. The practice of beheading a fallen foe was a favorite pastime. A human

skull was valued as a souvenir, and it was a proof of a man’s courage, which brought to the Ohafia man different types of honour. Only those who brought home a human head could join the Ogbu-Isi society and wear the eagle plume of courage. The love of military glory became a consuming passion and the

focus of all social values.

On the other hand, Abiriba, the people say, means Ebiri-Abaa, which roughly translates to, a fertile land that enriches those who live in it. Whether the people migrated from Israel, Egypt or from East Africa, the different accounts agree that they arrived Abiriba from Umon, in Cross River State, through Ena, Eberiba, Udara Abuo in Ohafia, and then Agboha, in the present Abiriba.

The leader of the group was a man known as Oke Ukpabi, who had a son, named Ukpabi Oke. Father and son lived at Ndi Ogogo, where the father died. Ukpabi Oke, in turn, had four sons, named in order of seniority as Inyima Ukpabi, Chukwu Ukpabi Oke, Ali Ukpabi Oke and Oko Ukpabi Oke. While Inyima Ukpabi Oke remained at Ndi Ogogo, Chukwu Ukpabi Oke moved to Amogudu, Ali Ukpabi Oke settled in Ihungwu, Oko Ukpabi Oke moved to Ama-Elu Nta. Theoretically, Abiriba is divided into three geo-political zones – Ameke, Amaogudu, and Agboji. But, practically speaking, Abiriba remains one. The boundary line separating one village from the other is blurred. They abhor anything that will bring division among them. For this reason, they have refused the creation of autonomous communities in the area, in spite of its expedience.

As in Ohafia, Abiriba is organized in a confederal system of government. The three geo-political zones have their ezes, who legislate on residual issues. There is an overall eze, the Enachuoken, who lives at Ndi Ogogo, in Ameke. He is said to be a ceremonial head and concurs to decisions reached by the Enachuoken-in-Council, made up of representatives of the three zones. The Otisi, a deity, is the mess of the Enachuoken-in-Council and stands as the symbol of authority. Any law proclaimed in Abiriba, without the Otisi cannot stand the test of time. Otisi can only be seen in the public when laws are going to be enacted or repealed.

The Abiriba man had not the war-like traits of his Ohafia counterpart. He is not a warrior in that sense. The only insight history gives into his past is that he was a wealthy black smith and a long distance traveler, who worked on raw iron from what is described as the mines of Okigwe-Arochukwu ridge.

AS a result of the abolition of slave trade, internal warfare declined and it became safe to travel. The Ohafia people, whose warlike exploits made peaceful travel impossible, were now able to work abroad. By 1913, most of them were trading at Itu, in Akwa Ibom State, and Calabar, in Cross River State.

Before now, the Ohafia man, with his entire war prowess, went through a ritual, to purge him of his war-like traits. Perhaps, he needed to be told by no less a force than the colonial might the old order had passed away.  And it came about in 1901, when a unit of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) based in Calabar laid a siege on Ohafia and Ebem. It was in response to the destruction of Obegu, in today’s Abia south, by fighters from the two communities.

The Ohafia people had looked forward to that encounter. The people were in high spirit, sharpening their machetes and loading their dane guns with gun-powder. As usual, it was another opportunity for them to cut human heads. But, in their ignorance, they failed to realize that the firepower of the white man was far and above their crude weapons.

Enter Eke Kalu, the former slave. He had since returned from Opobo and was now visiting Calabar as a businessman, when preparations to raid Ohafia and Ebem were in high gear. The sight of RWAFF soldiers marching in Calabar, coupled with his experience in Eket when he was a gun carrier, compelled him to seek a way of saving his people.

Eke Kalu knew from experience that his people, the famous and dreaded warriors of ancient Ohafia, the lions of the jungle, the proud and gallant sons of Uduma Ezema, would challenge the soldiers. He realized also that though the military tactics of the Ohafia warriors might surpass that of the RWAFF, yet their weapons were crude and nowhere near the firepower of the rifles and machine guns of the RWAFF soldiers. He, therefore, hurried out of Calabar in a canoe and, passing through Ikun, arrived Ohafia. It was an eke day and, on arrival, he went through the area, warning the people against challenging the soldiers. Four days after his return, the British soldiers were on their way to Ohafia, taking the Akoli Adda route.

Passing through Elu, they arrived in Ebem, where they pitched their tents at Ifi Iri-opu. Captain Mowatt commanded the soldiers. No sooner did the soldiers arrive than an Ebem warrior, Idika Echeme, was

said to have charged at them. Thereafter, the order to open fire was given on the other side of the line. Soon, trees and human beings began to fall.

Each time cannon balls went off; trees and charging Ebem warriors were cut down. The pillar of Ikoro Nde Anaga also came down. When they saw what was happening, the surviving Ebem warriors panicked and took to the forests for refuge.

After Ebem was reduced to rubbles, the British soldiers turned their attention to Ohafia. As they approached, Eke Kalu was waiting for them, not with machetes or dane guns. He had a long bamboo, at the top of which he tied a white handkerchief, which he waved frantically in the air, saying to the hearing of the approaching soldiers: “Ayi kwere na ndi beke”, meaning:

“We surrender to the British”.

Given his exceptional courage, Captain Mowatt was said to have demanded to know Eke Kalu’s identity. Coming close to the captain was an opportunity the former slave needed to demonstrate, before his people, his ability to speak English language. To the captain’s question, he proudly replied: “I from Elu Ohafia; my fadda, Imaga Agwunsi, say he no wan war”. The captain was pleased and to another question, he replied: “I is de onle man for Ohafia hear English”. When the British soldiers left Ohafia, the profile of the ex-slave rose among his people. The fact that he could engage a white man in a conversation earned him respect and honour. Consequently, they appointed him their adviser.

The event that changed the course of Ohafia people forever occurred shortly after, and Eke Kalu was, again, at the centre of it. There was, in Ohafia, a man identified simply as Vincent, a Sierra Leonean, who was the Native Court Clerk in the area. He was said to be “extremely wicked in his dealings with Ohafia people”. The day came when he locked some men in the prison for what was described as a trivial offence. The men broke out of the prison and were intent on beating him up, when he reported the matter to one Major Cobham, who dispatched some policemen to his rescue. The prisoners were promptly rearrested and fines were imposed on them.

After this event, Ohafia people started looking for a way out of what had become regular persecutions in the hands of the Sierra Leonean. As the solution to their problem, Eke Kalu, advised them to build schools and educate their children who, knowing what the clerk knew, would better challenge him and his successors in future. The first school was opened at Ndi Imaga Shed. From now on, the desire for education swept through Ohafia like a bush fire.

ABOUT two major waves of migration to Calabar have been identified in Abiriba. The first wave took place during the slave trade. When the obnoxious trade was abolished, the second migration started, beginning with black smiths and, later, traders. Two black smiths, identified as Nwafor and Udehi, led the migrants. The story has it that Nwafor settled at Umonta, while Udehi settled at Umon, near a plantation where he fashioned out hoes, cutlasses and other farm tools. As time went on, Udehi moved over to Umonta and both men opened a workshop.

With time, Abiriba people began to abandon iron work. It was now considered to be tedious profession and not profitable enough. By the turn of the 20th Century, the Abiriba man had gone into buying and selling with Europeans. From now on, the economic history of Abiriba began to show a shifting pattern of migration and commercial specialisation, in response to changing economic opportunities.

In the 19th Century, and early in the colonial period, trade in palm produce developed to the south, down the Igu tributary of the Inyang River, which joined the Cross River in the Itu area. The area was where Abiriba traders came to establish their business. There also developed a strong trade in smuggled gin from Fernando Po. A separate line of trade, associated with the smithing items, moved in the direction of Bende and later to Uzuakoli, where there was a large Abiriba quarters, and along the rail line from Umuahia to Port Harcourt.

By the early 1950s, the direction of the migration began to change. The Abiriba businessman began to move towards Aba. In the days of pre-colonial times, Aba had had a market place, near the Aza River, known as Eke Oha. After the Arochukwu expedition, Aba became an administrative centre and a garrison town. Its location on the railway aided its growth as a market centre and rewrote the economic geography of the area.

It was in Aba that the Abiriba man made his first business breakthrough in second-hand clothing, popularly called okirika, a period that marked his entrance into international trade. Apart from okirika, he was also involved in the importation of sewing machines, gramophones, stockfish and cement. From 1954, he started importing large consignments of stockfish from Norway and Iceland. By 1956, Abiriba men, such as the late Chief Nnana Kalu, had visited Iceland.

Then came the Nigerian Civil War, during which Igbo people, including Abiriba businessmen, lost their properties. At the end of the war, the Biafran currency became worthless. Between 1970 and 1973, Abiriba men who were able to return to big-time business were able to do so through loans and advances by their pre-war overseas trading partners.

By January 1972, two years after the war, an Abiriba businessman, Chief Obewu Ukegbu Onwuka, had begun importing containerized goods through the Apapa ports. By 1973, the businessmen had entered into what one of them described as the “innovation of importing cement in bulk, through a charter

party agreement”. In 1976, when a ban was placed on the importation of stockfish and second-hand clothing, it was like pulling the rug from the foot of the Abiriba businessman. Again, he tried to adapt, shifting interest from trading to the manufacturing business. Today, he ranks among one of the foremost industrialists in the country. From Aba, he has reached the four ends of the globe pursuing his business interest.

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DR. DUFF'S MESSAGE

Dr Alexander Duff, the fantastic veteran missionary to India, returned to Scotland to die, and as he stood earlier than the general meeting of the Presbyterian Church, he made his enchantment, but there was no reaction. inside the midst of his appeal he fainted and became carried off the platform. The medical doctor bent over him and tested his coronary heart. currently he opened his eyes.
"wherein am I?" He cried. "where am I?"
"Lie nevertheless," said the doctor. "Your heart may be very vulnerable."
"however," exclaimed the antique warrior, "I have to end my appeal. Take me again. Take me again. i haven't completed my appeal yet."
"Lie nevertheless," said the physician again, "you're too vulnerable to move again."

however the aged missionary struggled to his toes, his willpower overcoming his weak point; and with the medical doctor on one aspect and the moderator, on the opposite side, the antique white-haired warrior changed into led once more to the platform, and as he established the pulpit steps, the whole assembly rose to do him honour. Then he persisted his enchantment.

"whilst Queen Victoria calls for volunteers for India," he exclaimed, " hundreds of young men respond; however whilst king JESUS calls, no one goes." Then he paused. once more he spoke. "Is  it authentic," he requested, that Scotland has no extra sons to provide for India?" once more he paused. "thoroughly," he concluded, "if Scotland has no extra younger guys to send to India, then, vintage and decrepit although i am, i'm able to move back, and despite the fact that I can not pontificate, i can lie down at the shores of the Ganges and die, so one can permit the peoples of India understand that there is at least one guy in Scotland who cares sufficient for his or her souls to present his existence for them."

In a moment younger men, all over the assembly, sprang to their toes, crying out, "i'll go!" And after the well-known missionary had exceeded on, a lot of the ones identical younger men discovered their manner to India, there to invest their lives as missionaries, because of the attraction God had made thru Dr, Duff.

today, God is still making that appeal, are you able to soar unto your ft like one of those younger guys and say "Lord, ship me to the challenge discipline."
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Arsenal vs Southampton : Welbeck Brace deepens Southampton’s problems

Arsenal vs Southampton : Danny Welbeck stimulated Arsenal to a sixth straight win with two goals and an assist in a warm-tempered 3-2 home win over Southampton, to leave the Saints still rooted in the relegation zone.

The britain forward had now not scored a single league goal since September last year, but proved to be the catalyst for a much-changed Arsenal side ahead of their Europa League quarter-final second leg at CSKA Moscow on Thursday. Saints remain 3 points adrift of safety in spite of taking the lead early on via Shane long goal and then levelling at 2-2 when Charlie Austin scored simply seconds after coming on as a substitute.

However Welbeck had the closing word via heading in the winner moments after he had missed a far simpler chance. And Southampton’s survival hopes suffered another blow whilst defender Jack Stephens was sent-off for an off the ball clash with Jack Wilshere in stoppage time, with Arsenal’s Mohamed Elneny additionally given a red card for shoving Cedric Soares in the face.
 Sixth-positioned Arsenal close to within two points of Chelsea, who host West Ham later on Sunday, but remain well off the tempo in the race for a top-four finish. Regardless of Arsenal’s recent revival, the Emirates was again a long way from complete as fans voted with their feet against Arsene Wenger’s refusal to quit his 22-year stay in charge as manager. Wenger made seven substitution  from the side that beat CSKA 4-1 of their quarter-final first leg on Thursday with securing a return to the Champions League by winning the Europa League now Arsenal’s priority for the rest of the season. And Southampton took complete advantage of a sloppy begin from the hosts within the 17th minute.
Cedric Soares move from the right did not look specifically risky, however goalkeeper Petr Cech and defender Shkodran Mustafi left it to each other and long nipped in to poke home. Arsenal responded properly, though, and Aubameyang delivered them level with his sixth goal in eight appearances for the Gunners as he flicked home Welbeck’s pass. Welbeck placed Arsenal ahead seven mins before the break when he accepted a pass from Alex Iwobi on the left and shrugged off challengers before unleashing a shot that was helped past McCarthy via a deflection off Maya Yoshida.

The second half started with McCarthy making amazing saves from Aubameyang, Granit Xhaka and Iwobi to underline why he is keeping England international Fraser Forster out of the Southampton team. At the other end Elneny needed to head off the line to keep out Wesley Hoedt’s header and Cech dived to save another long effort. long had the ball inside the net from Saints’ next attack, deflecting in a long-range effort from Cedric but the forward was marginally offside, even if he didn’t assume so. An equaliser was coming, although, and was netted by replacement Austin the 73rd minute after Cedric had burst into the box to square the ball for a tap in. Welbeck missed a brilliant chance to place Arsenal again ahead when he fired over from three yards out after Wilshere had hooked the ball across goal. however the England international made no mistake 9 minutes from time when he headed Iwobi’s delivery to the back post past McCarthy.

Does Okorocha imply problem for APC?

The lengthy-suppressed fury of members of the All Progressives Congress, APC in the Southeast towards Governor Rochas Okorocha subsequently burst out last Tuesday. It came whilst Mr. Osita Okechukwu, the director general of the Voice of Nigeria, VON in an uncommon step called out the Imo state governor as a liability to the party and its leading 2019 presidential aspirant, Muhammadu Buhari.

Okorocha, the only governor elected at the platform of the APC in the Southeast had come to regard himself as the visioner of the party in the Southeast region. He had in that vein approximately a year ago conferred the titular leadership of the party within the Southeast on the former president of the Senate, Senator Ken Nnamani. while party members from the region muttered, the governor went right into a ramble on how foundation members of the party like Dr. Chris Ngige, Dr. Ogbonnonya Onu have been undeserving to guide the party in the area. In Imo state, numerous pioneer members of the party were scandalised by means of the political foibles of the governor. certainly, one of the greatest injuries of the Okorocha story in Imo is the muscling out of some of the party’s most conscientious individuals which include Uche Onyegocha, the former member of the house of Representatives.

Okorocha

Onyegocha’s historical role in Igbo political renaissance is signposted with the aid of the fact that he became the first person ever elected on the platform of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, having been elected to the house in the first election the party stood for in 2003.

 Onyegocha’s ethical fibre was further accentuated while he stood out as perhaps the best Igbo member of the house of Representatives who turned down the N50 million third term cash. An early supporter of the 2015 Buhari presidential aspiration, Onyegocha like numerous early supporters of the president became frozen out from the government that was inaugurated. At home, the political foibles of his governor pressured him out of the APC last year.

So when Okechukwu intervened last Tuesday to the effect that Governor Okorocha should not be seen as the poster boy of the APC inside the Southeast, he seemingly meant sense to a few people. Mr. Okechukwu’s intervention came in the wake of the continuing brouhaha that arose from Okorocha’s plans to foist his son (in law), Uche Nwosu as the APC’s governorship candidate in the 2019 election in Imo state. That scheme is already galvanising leading Imolites consisting of Archbishop Anthony Obinna of the Roman Catholic Church to action.

The Imo authorities, however, sees all such oppositions to its political schemes as treachery, and a call to warfare. Okechukwu had in an interview with a national newspaper alleged “What we lost in APC is because of him. he is a man who doesn’t trust in himself, and he tells himself lies.” Okorocha’s media group which does not waste time to reply to any criticism was quick with his spokesman, Sam Onwuemeodo replying thus: “Mr. Okechukwu is among those who have the inaccurate feeling that the only way they are able to develop in APC is by attacking or pulling down Governor Rochas Okorocha. And the person has been doing it religiously with out a response from us.” Okechukwu, Dr. Onu, the late Prof. Dora Akunyili have been among the earliest facilitators of the Buhari political mission. So whilst Okechukwu alleged as he did last Tuesday that Okorocha must no longer be visible as a poster boy for Buhari’s intentions towards Ndigbo, he likely can also have said the apparent. but, in the light of allegations of discrimination against Ndigbo via the Buhari administration particularly, Okechukwu’s projections of himself as a higher apostle of the Buhari philosophy can also be a difficult sale.

So, head or tail, Ndigbo say that they're at a loss whoever between Okorocha or Okechukwu sees himself as a better champion of Buhari in the Southeast. that is what is called the satan’s opportunity.

City vs Utd: Losing Title on derby day not end of the world- Mourinho

Losing the title to the blue facet of Manchester on derby day isn't “the end of the world”, Manchester United coach, Jose Mourinho has insisted.

"See, I won the title at Chelsea against United,” he said. “We beat United 3-0 and we won the title at Stamford Bridge in 2005-06. However it was not the end of the world. Manchester United didn’t finish. It was just football”, Mourinho said.
 “The simplest thing i can say is that we need to win, we don’t want to offer them the game. We want to go there, compete and win the game if possible. That’s the best thing i can say.
“It is normal that you want to delay the champions from becoming champions. We would love to beat them, we would love Spurs to win them next week, we would really like them to be champions as late as possible. “I suppose Chelsea could sense the same because they would really like to be [reigning] champions as long as possible, until late April or the beginning of May. That is normal in football, but in this situation obviously they [City] are going to be champions due to the fact that there is a very significant distinction.”

Mourinho and Pep Guardiola

“The table is constantly a truthful mirrored image,” said the United boss. “ultimately, what matters is what occurs in the reality of the points and city might be champions due to the fact they deserve to be champions.
 “I assume they may be going to beat Chelsea’s [record] overall from 2004-05 [of 95 points] and that does not make it easy for the teams coming at the back of them and even for teams with high quality seasons, with [a] positive number of points and with massive improvement on the previous season.
“In our case, I think we've 8 points greater than last season, extra goals scored, less goals conceded, but Manchester city made it impossible for the others.

“So, what do you need me to mention? Congratulations for the awesome premier League season they're doing? And the instant they turn out to be champions, if you want to be sooner rather than later? i will react the same manner that other people reacted after I won three titles in this country.”