My husband divorced me when he started listening to hearsay

You will soon celebrate your 40th birthday, how do you feel attaining that age?
I give all the praises to the Almighty God who has not only counted me among the living but has also counted me among the privileged women. God gave me the privilege of being one of the female members of this Assembly and looking at what I have become today, I have every reason to thank God in a special way. For me, it is through the grace of God that I have achieved this and I will continue to hail and praise Him for the wonderful things He has done in my life. Being 40 is good. I feel young. I feel 30, even I feel 25. I thank God for my life and I thank Him for the beautiful children He has given me. They are all doing well. I’m only their custodian but I thank God that He has assisted me a lot in my life.
Are there any special programmes to mark the birthday?
In the first instance, thanksgiving to God for keeping me alive to witness the day is a paramount programme. Apart from this, on August 15, which is the real birthday date, I want to put smiles on the faces of the people through a mind-blowing empowerment programme intended to encourage people to start and manage businesses of their own. Through this programme, I want to empower the youths, the less privileged women, the aged and even politicians. I want to put smiles on their faces. I have been doing empowerment programmes before but this is going to be a special one hence it is going to be bigger than what we have done in the past. Part of the birthday programme is an inter-ward table tennis competition among youths in my constituency covering Isolo and Ejigbo Local Council Development Areas. By the time this interview would have been published, the preliminary round of the competition would have commenced because we plan to have the final as part of the programme for the main birthday celebration on August 15. Of course, the winners will go home with beautiful prizes. Included in the programme is the launching of my two books. One is ready and will be launched on August 15 while the second one will be launched in September.
This is a huge programme and very comprehensive, how much are you committing to this project?
I just believe I’m sowing a seed, which I cannot quantify in monetary terms. Some of the programmes started years ago. For instance, I started writing the books years ago and I’m completing them to coincide with my birthday. I initially wanted to distribute the books free but I realised that people don’t value anything that is given out free. So you think of the money for printing the books, writing, typesetting and the money for the whole programme. I just don’t see this in monetary terms. It is a seed sowing meant to give thanks to God for sparing my life till this time.
Can you tell us a little about your background?
I am the last child in my family. My father had me when he was 50, which means he is going to be 90 this year. My mother is late. I had both my primary and secondary education at Akure. First at St. Mathias Primary School, and then St. Luke Girls’ Grammar School both at Akure. We were the first set of students to acquire the Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE). After my secondary education, I got admission to study arts and graphics design at the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, but somehow fate played a cruel one on me. I participated in an arts competition and I won the second position at the national final. I won the first position in the South West. The competition was for all male and female secondary students in Nigeria. The award was presented to the winners by former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida (IBB). I was so carried away by the award that I pushed myself further and tried to go to the United States of America (USA) but I was refused visa by the US Embassy in Nigeria. It was during my struggle to get visa to travel to America that I lost the polytechnic admission. After losing my admission, I opted for diploma courses and I later had two diplomas in data processing and database at a computer school. I also had a degree in theology from where I went into pastoral work. I got married in 1993 and became full-time pastor in 1994.
When did you decide to go into politics?
My pastoral work had been taking me outside Nigeria to mainly some West African countries. It was when I came back from one of the trips that the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) started sentisising Christians on the need to go into politics. Based on this, I decided to participate and in 1999, I came out for the first time to contest for a councillorship position and I lost at the primary. Again, I contested on the platform of the then All Peoples Party (APP) and I lost. In 2003, I was the candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) for the House of Assembly election and I lost to Hon. Abdul Hakeem Abdul Lateef. I was compensated with a board appointment and I became a board member in one of the agencies under the Lagos State Ministry of Youths, Sports and Social Development and I served for four years. When I learnt that Hon. Abdul Hakeem was not coming back for a second term, I decided to try again. I thank God that I won; that was in 2007 and in 2011, I won again. Here we are today.
What was your husband’s reaction when you decided to go into politics?
Yeah, he supported initially. He wanted it, knowing that I am a person that if I believe in something I will convince you to accept it. He knows that if I didn’t believe in something, I don’t waste my strength on it. However, later he started listening to people and unfortunately today, we are no longer together. I’m divorced and I want to say that is how God wants it. I never wanted it that way but I believe it was the wish of God. This is something that usually brings tears to my eyes hence I will rather not say more about it. I believe in marriage, I believe in relationship. My parents gave me the right value and that is what I have lived with over the years. You know some people come into your life for a purpose and if they have fulfilled that purpose they will move on. Life continues. I am a happy woman today.
You said you father gave birth to you when he was 50; in that case you must have been pampered?
I don’t think so. I’m the last born in a family of nine but I was not pampered. I left home early. I left home because my father has European mentality, which for me was a kind of colonisation. He always wants things done in Western ways and I am somebody that’s ambitious. I want to explore new areas. I want to do so many things because I believe life has so many things to offer. I left home at a very tender age, at age 17 I was sending money to my parents; then I was a teacher at Orile. I got a job as a classroom teacher in a nursery and primary school. You know from a very tender age, I have been given out to people. Don’t forget that I got married at age 20. I gave birth to my first child at 21. Somebody even remarked then that “a baby is giving birth to a baby.” At 21 also, I was a banker because I did my industrial attachment with then Satellite Town Community Bank. When you see some of my pictures then I was looking so fragile but I could do so much because I believe there is something in me that is mightier than the frame, that’s what kept me on. I have three kids; I had my first child at 21, my second at 23 going to 24 and at 26 plus I stop having children. You can imagine, at 26 everything about baby is gone. My first child will be 20 this year. He is a boy and he is schooling in Canada. The second one will be 17 in January next year while the last born will be 14.
After losing in 2003, how did you pick the ticket for your subsequent election into the Assembly in 2007?
I studied my environment. I knew there were strong members of the community who could lobby and beg on my behalf and I went to them. Remember that I had been participating at the grassroots and these people knew me. I have been on ground since 1999. My posters were always very visible. I went to influential people, who knew my antecedents and I continued to work with the people at the grassroots and today, to God be the glory, He gave us victory at the end.
How smooth was the journey then?
The journey has been very turbulent, in fact very rough. A night before the primary in 2007, I had to go down to Alausa to check the list of the aspirants that can contest. It was 2a.m. and my car broke down at Oworonshoki and that was the second time such thing would happen that day. I had two cars; the Mercedes Benz car I took from home broke down at Oshodi. I went back home, took the Bluebird car and that one also broke down at Oworonshoki. I was left in a state of confusion. Just then we saw a bus going to Ojota and we practically jumped into it. My personal assistant, the two coordinators and I, we dropped at Ojota and crossed to the other side of the road where two prostitutes were haggling with a taxi driver. I rushed there and begged the taxi driver to take us, promising to give him whatever the prostitutes wanted to give him in triple fold. The man eventually took us and on reaching the Alausa gate, I jumped down from the car on motion, crossed over to the gate where the security man in charge said I could not see Asiwaju. But I insisted he wanted to see me and when I mentioned my name, he allowed me in and I practically ran into Asiwaju’s office where he was seated with the elders and leaders of the party. They saw me and they said they were waiting to hear from me and the rest is now history. To God be the glory and I found myself here.
There’s this belief that female politicians always face harassment, how have you been able to handle this?
Well, I will throw the question back at you: when you look at me, my person, do you think it is easy to harass a person like me? I think it’s all about identity. If you know who you are and you carry yourself well, nobody will dare harass you.
As we move towards the 2015 general election, what is your political aspiration?
Everything depends on God. I look towards Him for guidance. But for me, I will like to repeat my class. I no know book and pikin wey no know book dey repeat class. Therefore, I want to repeat my class.
What’s your advice to other women?
My advice is for them to believe in themselves and always plan for whatever they believe in and remain consistent with it. When I contested for councillorship seat and I lost, I remained consistent that I wanted to be a lawmaker and here I am today and again, to God be the glory.

When love turns sour ( sad case of Winifred)

When in November 2012, Winifred Okey, received a call-up letter to begin her National Youth Service Corps programme in Rivers State, she was extremely happy. This was because she wanted to be posted there so that she would be close to her friends, who were staying there.

The 23-year-old graduate’s happiness was however cut short after she was set ablaze at the corper’s lodge in Asari Toru Local Government by her ex-boyfriend.

It was learnt that Winifred, a graduate of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, was in her room in company with her roommate when her ex-boyfriend set their room ablaze.

Our correspondent, who spoke to members of her family in Lagos, learnt that the incident occurred on July 19, 2013.

A member of the family, who wished to remain anonymous, said, “Winifred was the first child of the family. She has a younger sister, Ruth. We were all in Lagos when we received a call from NYSC that Winifred was in a critical condition so her parents travelled to Rivers State immediately.

“We learnt that her former boyfriend in the university, went to her room at night, emptied a keg of petrol on the door and set the building on fire. Other residents rushed to the scene and were able to rescue Winifred and her roommate, but Winifred had been badly burnt.

“They were rushed to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital.”

It was learnt that Winifred’s parents stayed with her at the hospital till July 31, 2013, when the graduate of Home Economics died due to the burns she had sustained.

PUNCH Metro learnt that the State Criminal Investigation Department immediately swung into action and began investigations into the matter. It was learnt that the police arrested the culprit, who had burns on  his hands.

When our correspondent asked Winifred’s family why the suspect committed the act, they said they did not know as they had never met him before.

A cousin of the deceased said, “Winifred and the guy met in school, but the guy lives in Port Harcourt while we live in Lagos. The incident is still a shock to us.”

Friends of the deceased, however, said the ex-lover had been sending threat messages to her for leaving him. They were not, however, able to state, the cause of their estrangement.

Winifred was said to have been dating someone else, which did not go down well with the suspect.

Winifred’s father, Mr. Okey Okey, who spoke to our correspondent on the telephone, said his daughter’s death was a shock. He, however, said he could not speak at length because he was having a family meeting over the incident.

The state command’s Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Angela Agabe, could not be reached as her phone rang out while a text message sent to her phone was not replied to.

However, the Public Relations Officer, NYSC, Rivers State, Mrs. Violet Apollo, described the incident as “very sad.”

She added that the NYSC would ensure that that the matter was followed to a logical conclusion.

COLLEDGE STUDENTS PROTEST RAPE OF FEMALE STUDENT

Scores of students of the Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Ondo State staged a protest in the  state capital on Tuesday, against alleged rape of their female colleagues by some suspected hoodlums.

They alleged that three female students of the institution fell victim when the hoodlums invaded their campus in the early hours of Tuesday.

The aggrieved students blocked the ever-busy Fiwasaye/Owo Road, causing a gridlock that lasted many hours.

President of FECA Students Union, Mr. Oladapo Akindamini,  explained that about five hoodlums allegedly led by a part-time student of the school, invaded the campus around midnight and headed for the female hostel.

He said, “Other students were alerted by the noise from the female hostel only to discover that two of the female students had been raped while the third student was molested and cut with a machete.

“Two other students were also wounded by the rapists. We have taken them to the general hospital for treatment.”

He added that the students, who were preparing for their examination, rushed out of their hostels and apprehended one of the hoodlums who was handed over to a security officer in the school. He said the officer kept the suspect in an open room instead of handing him over to the police. He added that the lapse gave the hoodlum the oportunuty to escape.

Akindamini said, “The major grouse of the students was that the security personnel can no longer guarantee the safety of students and staff living within the school campus.

“What further angered the students was the conduct of the Chief Security Officer who allowed one of the hoodlums arrested by the students to escape.”

The provost of the college however blamed the porous nature of the institution for the development and appealed to the Federal Government to complete the school’s fencing project.

She said, “It is true that some students were raped by the some of their colleagues who were on campus on part-time basis.”

FUNNY: THE DAY STRAY LIONS HELD ASO ROCK HOSTAGE

Since the days of President Shehu Shagari, a particular man has been the first citizen’s animals’ keeper. Shagari left office some 30 years ago. That means the man, who was hired then and just died at 58, took up the job in his 20s.
The man, popularly known as SA (Special Adviser) Lion, has left the president’s zoo against his wish; death snatched him away from the beasts he had been tending in the past 30 years.
The wild animals’ keeper, Mallam Yahaya Adamu (Dan Zaria) more adequately, S.A. Lion, hailed from Kaduna State.
Dan Zaria, died in his sleep on that fateful Sunday at his residence in Masaka, Nasarawa State. Those he left bereaved are his two wives and 18 children, five girls and 13 boys. If the animals he kept are intelligent enough to know what death means, then many more than you think are actually bereaved because he had been with them in the past 30 years, but would not come back.
He was employed as Head Gardener in December 1983 in Dodan Barracks, Lagos under President Shehu Shagari, shortly before the Gen. Muhammadu Buhari’s coup.
He was later sent to Niger Republic to train in wild beast handling by the State House Veterinary.
Trained 3 lions
Dan Zaria, a very jovial individual while in the employment of the State House, successfully trained about three lions in the villa from cubs.
Rescues Aso Rock from stray lions
During Gen. Abdullasami Abubakar’s regime, one fateful day, one of the three lions escaped from its cage at the back of the Head of State’s residence, shortly after Dan Zaria had taken permission from his bosses to rush to town and handle a banking transaction.
The soldiers ,guarding the villa, were ordered by the then CSO, Major Aliu, to take position and shoot the lion down should it try to attack anybody.
A search party was then sent to look for Dan Zaria, who luckily was on his way back to the Villa.
On his arrival, he panicked when he saw guns drawn and pointing at the lion and pleaded in a voice filled with emotion that he be allowed to lead it back to its cage. He got a water hose and increased the pressure of the water, aiming it at the lion and the beast quietly returned to its cage. Of course, Dan Zaria was hailed and applauded for his bravery and mastery.
On another occasion, a lion again escaped from its cage. News of the danger filtered into the meeting of the Provisional Ruling Council (PRC). Again, heavily armed soldiers were ordered to surround the venue of the meeting to forestall any possible attack from the lion. Some of the members of the PRC, ran out of the meeting into the C-in-C office for cover.  It was Dan Zaria again that came to the rescue and returned the lion to its cage.
Veteran
Dan Zaria worked with many heads of state, including President Goodluck Jonathan but the one that kept him most busy was the Abacha administration because of the CEO’s love for pets. He had different animals, including antelopes, tortoise, zebra, peacocks and others, parading around the villa.
While some of the wild animals like lions and tortoise have since been transferred out of the villa to the Children’s Park in Abuja, the zebras, giraffes, antelopes peacocks are still seen all over the villa.
His death
Dan Zaria suffered partial stroke that affected the entire right half of his body and the use of his right arm. The stroke left him, limping when he recovered. That seriously affected his job and during Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration, he was affected by staff downsize in the State House.
The then Chief of Staff, Gen. Mohammed Abdullahi, on noticing that he was no longer seeing Dan Zaria, sought to know what must have happened to him and he was informed of his sack.
Abdullahi pleaded with the then State House Permanent Secretary, Steve Orasanye, to reinstate him and ensure his Villa tag was always renewed alongside others until he decides on his own to stop coming. He convinced the permanent secretary that sacking him would hasten his death.
He was still on the employment of State House until his death in the early hours of Sunday, April 14.
Media person
Dan Zaria was fond of the press and would always come to hang around the press gallery contributing to any discussion with deep knowledge that surprised his listeners.
He was not afraid to talk to anybody and was very vast on national issues even though he was illiterate. His arguments came in fluent Hausa and pidgin English.
On one occasion, Dan Zaria had walked into the press gallery as usual and one of the journalists asked jokingly: “Dan Zaria, it’s weekend, so take care of your people”, after letting out a long laugh, he said: “But you promised us fresh air, so give us fresh air.”
Dan Zaria hated any currency other than naira, especially the American dollar.
The longest serving photographer attached to the State House, Alhaji Sule always made fun of Dan Zaria each time he returned from a foreign trip with his estacode.
Abacha made him agbada
On one of those occasion, Sule gave Dan Zaria $100 bill but he refused to collect it and when he persisted and forced it on him, he almost tore it to pieces but for the quick recovery from him by Sule.
Dan Zaria was also very simple and not materialistic. While many would have used his position to enrich themselves, Dan Zaria was known to reject gifts, including a car from one of is admirers.
Gen. Abacha at a time was said to have asked Dan Zaria to name whatever he wanted and he replied: “Nothing. It is against my religion to ask for anything”. But when Abacha insisted, Dan Zaria was said to have requested for agbada. And Abacha ordered that 50 sets be made for him.
House gift
His residence in Masaka was bought and built for him by the former National Security Adviser, Gen. Aliyu Gusau.
Every Sallah, Dan Zaria got ram gifts from Gen. Gusau, Gen Abdullahi and former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Alhaji Yayale Ahmed. There was a standing order for him to pick rams from their homes.
On another occasion, a certain Customs Comptroller General had sent a Golf car to Dan Zaria without prior notice. Dan Zaria never drove it but sold it off at little or nothing, “saying I don’t want to be have problems and the stroke has left me partially paralysed, so what will I do with a car?”
Children’s fees
When Mrs. Remi Oyo was the Special Adviser on Media to President Olusegun Obasanjo, she was reported ill at a time. Dan Zaria on hearing it cried that he would prefer to die in place of Mrs. Oyo because:  “She is the one that pays my children’s school fees.”
After Mrs. Oyo left the Villa and resumed as the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) she left a standing order that Dan Zaria must not be stopped when he comes looking for her.
IBB’s friend
Dan Zaria, who was well known to all past leaders and governors, would fearlessly walk up to them and strike a conversation. A couple of times, he was seen chatting with past leaders like Gen. Ibrahim Babangida the last time he visited the Villa.
He lost his mother just a month before he died, had given one of his daughters out in marriage and was preparing for another on May 18 before his death.
Two weeks before his demise, he had approached the Minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison-Madueke, to seek assistance on his daughter’s upcoming marriage, which she obliged him. Family members said he had procured everything needed in the party after Alison-Madueke’s assistance before he died.

16-year-old cultist stabbed, almost strangulated me –Pastor’s wife

 



Pastor Udeme Joseph and wife have a date they would remember more than their wedding day. But that won’t be for something as good as their wedding.
On Sunday, March 17, the Udemes learnt in a hard way the consequences of welcoming a 16-year-old church member and secondary school student, simply identified as Gideon.
The incident of that day almost cost the family the life of the wife. Traumatised Mrs. Udeme said she was more devastated when Gideon told her rescuers after failing to strangle her to death that she wanted to rape him.
Gideon, according her, was a regular visitor to her home but not even the premonition he had that fateful Sunday evening when his unusual quietness almost betrayed him could avert the intention that brought him to the home of the Udemes.
Thinking she was advising her students, the Sunday school teacher had curiously asked Gideon: “I hope you are not a bad boy, don’t join cult in school. You know that you are an orphan, try and concentrate on reading your books so that you can become useful in future.”
But she did not know she was pouring water on a stone until an evil force completely took him over, and he executed the mission that brought him to the home of the Udemes.
Within 10 to 20 minutes but for the intervention of her neighbours, almost inches to her grave, she was lucky to escape death with blood all over her body, as enough evidence of her great escape.
Mrs. Udeme tells Abuja Metro the story of the incident in her home in Mararaba, a suburb in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
Unassuming assailant
“About 4.00pm that day, a young boy came to my house. I was sleeping inside the room but he came to my room window to wake me up. I opened the sitting room door for him since he was our regular visitor and a child I always send on errand. I gave him money to buy me noodles in a nearby shop.
“After my meal, I sat down on the couch, watching television. When there was power failure, I noticed that he was sitting unusually quiet. I started advising and asking him if he was a bad boy and cultist. I told him that as an orphan he should be cool headed, good and face his studies.
“After the advice, I started playing game with my phone. He stood up and told me he wanted to wash the plate, as he did whenever he came around. He went into the kitchen and I didn’t even know whether he actually washed the plate.
“He came back and sat quietly and I was about asking him why he was so quiet when he stood up and told me he wanted to drink water. Without looking up, I told him to take it from the freezer near where I sat. He came close and grabbed my neck.
“I could only remember asking him what was the meaning of what he was doing. That was all I could say before I lost consciousness. I finally saw myself in between the television stand but I was not yet fully conscious until he brought out the TV decoder and started hitting my head with it.
“I, however, regained consciousness when I started bleeding. He continued hitting me repeatedly with knife on my head, hands and tummy. He also tried to use the TV power cord to strangulate me. I struggled, shouting for help but the generator noise suppressed my distress call.
“However, intervention finally came through my next-door neighbour, who incidentally did not go for evening fellowship. He heard my screaming and came when the boy was about hitting me with a big stabilizer and pulled him off me. But, the boy claimed that I tried to rape him,” she narrated painfully.
She responded: “I had no reason to suspect he would want to kill me because he had been a good boy. If you see him, he looks so innocent. I had no inkling that he was a cultist and dangerous. Incidentally, he is so accommodating and humble that you would feel free, staying with him.”
Even when Gideon descended on her, she did not think he just wanted to rape or kill her. “Nothing actually came to my mind when he grabbed me. As I said, I lost consciousness and did not think whether he attacked to rape or kill me. I just thank God for saving me, I am lucky to overcome the trauma and be alive to tell the story.”
Husband’s tale
Corroborating his wife’s pathetic story, Pastor Joseph, as he is fondly called, said Gideon blamed the devil while confessing to the act. He said he attempted to murder the woman to satisfy the cult’s demand for blood for his initiation into a higher cult group in school and to raise N5,000 to buy handset for his girlfriend’s birthday.
Pastor Joseph also revealed that Gideon equally confessed to joining school cult when he was in JSS1 at 10 in Benin, Edo State. Since then, according to his tale, he had been involved in rapes, visiting prostitutes in brothels and molesting teachers and senior students that crossed his way.
After the incident, my wife called, crying. She told me that baby Gideon almost killed her in our home. I could not but wonder what happened. I did not rest throughout that night. I arrived Abuja about 10.00am and met many people in my house.
They narrated how the young man came into the house, as he usually did most times as a child my wife taught in Sunday school. In fairness to him, he was a very free child, ready to run errand from morning to night without grumbling.”
He said Gideon had arrived their home, looking very troubled. My wife became worried and asked him why he wasn’t cheerful but he pretentiously said there was nothing wrong. My wife advised him as a pastor’s wife not to join bad gang.
“I had concluded on what to do to assist him and instructed my brothers to ensure he did not escape but while I was on my way to Abuja, God clearly told me to forgive him. On arrival, I told him I had forgiven him but he must go to the church, pray and fast until my spirit finally released him.
“On the fifth day, I just walked to him, told him that he was a cultist and told him to start confessing. In fact, what the boy told me was very shocking and terrifying. He confessed that he was introduced into the cult when he was still in JSS1. He said since then, he had been raping women, patronising prostitutes in brothels and involved in several fights.
“He narrated that a student had approached him back then in Benin and convinced him that he would be a big boy if he joined cult. He admitted that accepting the offer was the beginning of his journey into cultism. He was a good boy until a fellow student here in Abuja after he relocated told him that joining cult would make him a big boy in school. He said since joining the cult, he had been stealing money from the house to pay for sex with prostitutes.
“Gideon also told me that he had entered my house with an industrial scissors but on entering my wife’s kitchen, he saw a sharp knife. He said a voice directed him to use the knife instead of the scissors he came with because the knife would kill a human being faster and easier than the scissors. I believe the spirit of God was at work, otherwise the scissors ordinarily is more dangerous than the knife.
“He said during power outage, he wanted to leave and actually walked towards the door when a voice asked him if he had done what he was sent to do, instructing him to go back and complete his mission,” the pastor narrated.
Explaining Gideon’s confession, pastor Udeme said: “As at the time of this murder attempt on my wife, he was just 15 years but he had done many unprintable things, including giving some boys more than N5000 to beat up a senior in school for molesting him.”
Why he wanted to kill my wife
“He told me he wanted to kill my wife because he needed money to buy phone for his girlfriend for her birthday. He said they promised to give him that money if he could kill the pastor’s wife and while he was eating, a voice ordered him to go and kill the woman to get the money for the phone and his initiation into a higher cult the next Monday.
He said they obviously needed the human blood to prove that he was strong enough to graduate to the higher cult group in school. He told me that university students initiated them into cult and taught them how to use cult slangs. He said the teachers were aware of their activities but were scared to do anything because of security of their lives. He added that they were even planning to stage a riot in the school the Monday, preceding the Sunday he wanted to kill my wife.
“He was in SS1 when God finally arrested him. But, he actually told me that my wife was a lucky woman, otherwise she would have been a dead person by now. Let me, however, announce that since his repentance and he left Abuja after the incident, he has been doing well,” Pastor noted.
Pastor Udeme said: “As a servant of God, we must endure many things. Before that attack, a woman had walked up to me and advised me to stop crying against witchcrafts. But, after the incident, a young secondary school student had come to me, begging that I deliver him from witchcraft or he would die in few days time.”
Other cultists
He came with a ring, tick razor blade and other fetish substances I cannot describe and told me he needed to hand them over to me or he would die. He confessed that they had a chief priest in Masaka, who gave them occult power to operate in secondary schools. He revealed that there was also cultism in private schools and their next plan is to take it to primary schools.
“I took anointing oil, drew a circle and told him to step into it. Before praying for him, he had indicated that the cult bound him to an oath of secrecy and anyone that divulged the secret would die.
“He gave himself a deep cut on the chest with a razor but not a drop of blood came out. He did it in his palm, making some incantations, yet no dot of blood. He became afraid because according to him, if blood did not come out, he had not been de-initiated and the consequence was death.
“He was sweating profusely, looking very terrified until I stretched my hands and said ‘let blood gush out’. When blood came out, he became so relieved. I had wanted the guardians, sitting outside that day to be part of the deliverance but he warned that any of them that tried it would go mad.
“He confessed that the only way to save him was to pray and destroy the ring otherwise it must always return to his private part.
“We burnt the ring, those other fetish materials and held a tough spiritual battle until we finally delivered him. He left Abuja the next day to avoid the members, coming after him and told me that it was the best solution if he wanted to stay alive.
“We spoke recently and I asked him if the ring returned but he said no. Good enough, he has already enrolled in another school outside Abuja. He said to identify cult members, we should watch out for those that usually wear red and black with the same colour of bangles.”

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Stella Damasus under fire over Sharia comment

Actress, Stella Damasus, has added her voice to the underage marriage controversy generated in the National Assembly after Senator Ahmed Yerima from Zamfara State coerced the Upper Chamber to retain a section of the 1999 Constitution which states that “any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.”
In a video recording she pointed accusing finger at the Nigerian Senate for endorsing what she termed “slavery.”
However, she must have let her emotions take over as she spoke in the recording that she started mixing up issues. According to her, the senators are trying to make an Islamic agenda law in Nigeria, adding that they are “forcing Sharia law on the whole of Nigeria.”
While some hail her courage, she has, however, received more knocks than praises for the video.
Comments on the video criticised Stella for not knowing what she was saying and mixing up issues. One commentator pointed out that Stella could not differentiate between being from the North and a Muslim. “Because Northern senators shamefully endorsed the bill does not mean that its a Muslim agenda,” the comment read.