SAD NEWS: Sultry Actress, Ini Edo Loses Pregnancy?

According what Encomium magazine reported, Nollywood actress, Ini Edo has lost her pregnancy. Ini Edo’s pregnancy has recently become a controversial issue when pictures of the talented actress taken at recent events she attends shows a ‘table flat’ tummy. This has made some people ask if she is still pregnant. At most events Ini went to in recent times, she is pictured wearing a big belt around her stomach area, which raised further eyebrows. At the US launch of her fashion line and other events, she was so spotted. Ini’s pregnancy became more controversial when Mercy Johnson, who was also reported to have been pregnant almost the same time with Ini, flaunted her pregnancy recently. An excerpt of what Encomium reported is presented below; “Pretty actress, Ini Edo recently suffered a loss. She lost the pregnancy she was carrying for hubby, Philip Ehiagwina. The actress, a few months back, confirmed to an online magazine that she was indeed on a nine month course and ignited the fury of fans who felt she had first denied and then confirmed. “According to insiders, the actress, who was spotted looking every inch a super star (at the 32nd birthday party of Actress Stephanie O-Linus), also spotted a table flat tummy. ‘If she has not lost the baby, she would be almost ready to bring it to bed by now. Here is wishing her all the best as she tries again.’ “On Monday, October 8, 2012, we contacted the actress on phone on the issue and her personal assistant, Edward said, ‘She is sleeping right now. I don’t know anything about her losing her pregnancy. “Maybe when she wakes up she will talk to you about that. But I am not aware of anything about such information.’ “Thereafter, our repeated calls were ignored by the actress, even the text message we sent was not acknowledged. “The text message read, ‘we called earlier, but eddy said you were asleep. There is a story here that you lost your pregnancy and we would love to hear your response as we go to press now. Thanks.” Source: Nigeriafilms

Popular Nigeria old school singer Daniel Wilson wed long time partner, Yetunde.

Daniel Wilson walked down the aisle with longtime partner, Yetunde. The newly wedded couple tied the knot at Archbishop Vinning Memorial Church in Lagos. Meanwhile the happy couple already have a six year old handsome son together. Wishing them well and Happy married life to them.

Dextron contractor kidnapped in Edo state yet to be found!!

Mr. Lanre Fashesin has not been heard from in the last 3 months after he was kidnapped at a site in Edo State. The family had up until now made frantic efforts to secure his release to no avail. The Police also claim to have hit a dead end and seem to have become clueless as to how else to find the kidnapped engineer. Mr. Fashesin was working at the site where he was kidnapped as a contractor for Dextron Engineering Limited based in Lagos. The family today put out a release appealing to members of the public to kindly join in the search for Lanre who recently just got married. Please call 08069439240 if you have any information & spread the word. Engr. Lanre Fashesin, referred to by the kidnappers as ‘Larry’ (see picture) was kidnapped around a Niger Delta PHCN project site in Iguiye village(between Okada & Benin City) 4 months ago. We have not heard anything from him or the kidnappers for about 3 months now. Lanre is 6 foot 3 inches tall, and speaks Yoruba and English fluently. Please call 08069439240 if you have any information & spread the word.

Monalisa Chinda’s outfit…hot or not? ALL VOTE NOW!!!

Charles Okah prison letters. Must Read

Dear readers – I wanted to share with you this letter from Charles Okah, who is currently held in prison where he has been pressured to fabricate accusations against critics of the government and subjected to the worse kind of abuse. His story speaks for itself. – Nasir El-Rufai. Charles T. Okah Single Cell Block Kuje Prison Abuja, Nigeria. His Eminence Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie c/o Catholic Church Secretariat Lagos, Nigeria. Your Eminence: October 1 2010 Bomb Blast Setup and Government Double Standard Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I hope this letter meets you well. The reasons I choose to direct this letter to you are that I am a Catholic and you are an old boy of my alma mater, St. Gregory’s College, Lagos. I write from Kuje Prison Abuja where two other Catholics and I have been languishing in solitary confinement for 2 years on trumped-up charges relating to the October 1, 2010 bomb attack claimed by the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND). My name is Charles Tonbra Okah, aka Billy Bones. On October 16, 2010 my residence in Apapa GRA was invaded by operatives of the State Security Services on the warrant that I was the suspected spokesman for MEND using the pseudonym “Jomo Gbomo.” My eldest son, visiting from the United States where he attends the University of Kansas (KU) was also arrested. At the SSS Headquarters Abuja where we were flown to blindfolded with our legs and hands bound, my ‘cooperation’ was solicited for something completely different to my surprise. My captors threw me a lifeline; offering me our freedom and a lucrative contract in exchange for false testimony against my younger brother Henry, who is resident in South Africa. I was to write a false statement claiming to have been told by Henry about the bomb plot and naming the following persons as his conspirators: Former Head of State, General Ibrahim Babangida, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, Chief Timipre Sylva, and Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan. I bluntly refused. To maintain pressure on me, I was told that my son would be implicated in the bomb matter, my containers of legitimate imports then at the Tin Can Port would be impounded and my business destroyed. I still did not budge, tossing their lifeline back with royal disdain. When they realized I was not going to connive in their scheme, they became formal and reverted to the main reason for my arrest. I was asked for the MEND password which I told them I did not know. They bound me in a chair, took off my trousers and clamped a device to my penis. My legs were then put inside a basin of water. The device when turned on passed a high voltage of electricity to my body and I lost consciousness. This was on Monday October 18 at about 6pm. When I regained consciousness, I discovered I was at the National Hospital emergency room. I remember the doctors asking why I had trauma marks on my chest where the SSS doctor performed Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). The SSS operatives were evasive in answering questions at the hospital. That night I was released and taken to rest for the night at the State House Clinic. That was the last time a torture was carried out on me. My son was eventually released after Mr. Femi Falana visited in the company of my wife after a month of being denied access to a lawyer. However, my containers have been impounded up to date and my bank account frozen. The SSS stopped asking about the MEND password after Jomo Gbomo made another statement while I was in their custody but refused to still let me go because I did not cooperate earlier with them. Meanwhile in the ongoing trial in South Africa, Henry is accused of being the same Jomo Gbomo by the same people who say I am JG. Double Standard in Kuje Prison: On December 24, 2010 we were remanded in Kuje prison as a result of our application to be removed from the SSS detention cell. Unknown to us, the SSS passed instructions from “above” to the prison authorities to carry out “special treatment” in order to stampede us into a trial towards conviction. For 2 years we have been locked up in solitary confinement, are not allowed to exercise or get sunlight outside and are forced to sleep on the floor when bunk beds are available. Even a court order by Justice Gabriel Kolawole to the prison for a change in our confinement style was ignored after it was superseded by an ‘order from above.” In late 2011, while locked up inside our cell block, prison officials clothed in protective apparel, face masks and gloves carried out fumigation without opening us to wait outside. Our protests fell on deaf ears and by the time they were finished we were in distress. The Youth Corper doctor on call tried her best within her limits to the emergency she was confronted with. The poisonous gas and barbaric action reminiscent of the Nazi concentration camp infamous gas chambers, eventually led to the death of one Francis Osuwo, aka Gboko, also roped into this case by the SSS and a man I have never met before. Interestingly, the four persons in detention were strangers to each other except for one Obi Nwabueze who is a family friend and close associate of Henry. The fumigant whose chemical constituent were never relayed to us have affected my neurological system and I have been on a daily prescription of strong neurological medication prescribed by a neurologist of the National Hospital, Professor Bwala. While the Boko Haram suspects at Kuje prison are allowed to worship in the prison mosque, we have never set foot in the prison chapel. They are also enjoying privileges such as cable television, radio, liberty to move within the prison walls, bunk beds to sleep on and phone calls to their families. We are denied all of the above. When I asked the current Controller of FCT Command the reason for the disparity, he said “the fear of Boko Haram is the beginning of wisdom.” He further said the Moslem community was concerned about their welfare in custody. Double Standard in the Court: Even in the Courts where justice is supposed to be blind, the double standard is glaring. While Senator Ndume, accused of being a financier to Boko Haram was given bail by the same Judge presiding over our case, we have been denied bail. I understand that this Senator was permitted by the same court to travel on his religious obligation to Mecca for the lesser Hajj while we are refused from attending mass in a chapel less than 50 meters from our cell block. The court is willing to permit the Senator approval to travel abroad for his medical check if he can provide proof that such check up is not done locally. Meanwhile, I have been denied my application to go on a compulsory checkup which in my case is mandatory for a kidney donor, having donated my left kidney to my mother 30 years ago. Our cases have been adjourned repeatedly for cruelly long durations. The last time I appeared in court was March 2012 and the next adjourned date is January 31. 2013, that is if that date will not be shifted again under a flimsy excuse. All we ask is for a free and fair justice from an independent Judiciary that should release us instead of holding us as scapegoats over an obvious power show. While this government continues holding us hostage, our families are becoming destitute. Our rights to freely worship as Catholics is being infringed by the state who have more respect for Islam when all religions should be treated equally. Double Standards in the Polity: The National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) was quoted as saying that the government of President Goodluck Jonathan has the phone numbers of suspected Boko Haram sponsors. Later the Inspector General of Police said certain individuals had been put on a “watch list” as suspected Boko Haram sponsors. Now the big question is why did the government not simply have our phone numbers and put us also on its ‘watch list” while we move about freely? They did not hesitate to arrest us, clamp us on trumped-up charges and detain us on flimsy excuses. They did not merely talk, they took action even in South Africa where my brother was arrested since 2010. Is there a better word to describe this other than hypocrisy? The same government eager to negotiate with Boko Haram who claimed responsibility for over 100 attacks where Catholics have suffered the brunt, have refused to negotiate with MEND and continue to delude themselves that all is well. Why would this government expect Boko Haram to unmask it leaders and negotiate when they can see that perceived leaders and supporters of MEND are being persecuted and jailed? I welcome a fact-finding visit from the Church in the company of credible Human Rights groups to verify our allegations. On the two occasions Kuje Prison was visited by the Bishop of Abuja during the Christmas of 2010 and 2011, he was surreptitiously steered away from where were we are held hostage and I believe he has no idea of what is going in inside Kuje prison. Our prayers is that leaders of our Churches will be more sensitive and proactive in politics of the land that touches the lifes of their followers and not leave delicate issues solely in the hands of corrupt and selfish politicians, and majority of the population rid of a “Potiphar” mentality who believe lies when told by SSS. May God save our beloved country. Yours Sincerely, Charles T. Okah CC: Pope Benedict, Vatican, Rome Catholic Bishop of Abuja Diocese, Abuja FCT “I.was.sick.and in prison, and you visited me.” -Mathew 25. 35, 36 Culled from Mallam Nasir El-Rufai’s website.

How do you stay faithful to one partner for the whole of your life

First and foremost, sex tends to stop in a relationship because it cannot constantly be spontaneous. The excitement of the early days when a couple first meets gives a force to sexual desire which is often dulled by living in close proximity for any length of time. While sex may be very rewarding, it is easy to avoid engaging in sexual activity with your partner if you are not feeling a sense of high desire or spontaneous sexual excitement. In such cases, a conscious decision to initiate sex is always harder than falling into a spontaneous bout of lovemaking propelled by high sexual desire. So let's begin by looking at some of the common reasons why people find they stop having set in a relationship. The truth is, of course, that there are a million and one reasons why sex stops happening in a relationship. For one thing, in many couples the man and woman have an unequal level of sexual desire. While this need not be a problem, difficulties can arise if the man sees sex as his entitlement or as a way to satisfy his needs without giving much consideration to his partner's needs. His partner may feel that she is simply being used when it comes to sex, and begin to resent it. When this happens, trouble lies ahead, because sex may become a symbol of power, a weapon in the relationship: on her part it serves to assert herself, to get power over her man; on his part, sex may be something that simply fulfils his biological needs, divorced from seduction or romance in the relationship, and he may get grumpy or angry if he does not get it as often as he thinks he "should". And sadly, it's often true that men do see sex as a need which can be satisfied by a routine, mechanical bout of lovemaking once every few days. It's hardly surprising, in this situation, that women come to resent their partner's expectation of sex, and may withhold it. Even in these days of supposed liberation, it is almost always the woman who determines the frequency of sex in a relationship. Many of us have come to believe in sexual stereotypes which suggest that women "need" love, romance and seduction to be sexual, while men need sex to make them romantic and loving. However, there is plenty of evidence that men enjoy the softer, more sensual, more romantic side of sex just as much as women do, with or without intercourse and/or orgasm. The basic problem is that when couples get into polarized thinking, the emotional issues lying behind sex - such as anger, unexpressed resentment, and fear of rejection - become so important that the very act of initiating sex can be inhibited. Then neither the man nor the woman suggests sex, and it gradually becomes less frequent. One major problem is that we fear so many sexual issues. We fear the rejection of our partner when we ask for sex. We fear not being able to perform (whatever that means for you). We fear our partner will not want to have sex. Men fear the loss of their erection. Women fear not being aroused or not reaching orgasm. All of these fears, and thousands more, can stand in the way of a couple actually making the first step of asking for, of initiating, sex. And since no one in a long-term relationship could reasonably expect sex to be spontaneous all the time, if initiation does not happen, then sex will not happen either. The problem is we're reluctant to admit to ourselves that we don't initiate sex because of our fears and anxiety; instead we make excuses for not having sex, for not initiating sex: I'm too tired; there isn't time; we did it last week; she won't want it; I might not be able to get it up; I've got to get up early tomorrow morning; I just don't feel in the mood. And so on, and on, and on.....we shall examine the excuses that people offer in more detail in a moment. But, there are plenty of other reasons why sex stops happening. (And, incidentally, plenty why it should not.) We have all heard of the so-called incest taboo; that is to say, a mechanism that prevents us from feeling sexual desire for those around us as we grow up. In the natural order of things, brothers and sisters do not feel sexual attraction to each other. Neither do parents towards children (at least, not in a psychological healthy family). What may be less obvious is the fact that when a couple get together and form a family unit of their own they are to some degree recreating an environment in which the expression of sex can be inhibited. In other words, what has been termed "family sex" may be incompatible with "sexual love", even between a consenting adult couple. An interesting example of this would be a man who becomes impotent after his wife gives birth: something is being activated about the incest taboo between mother and son. While this may seem far-fetched, think about it for a moment: when a wife or partner becomes a mother, her behavior and attitudes change. They may change sufficiently that her partner or spouse regresses psychologically, consciously or unconsciously, to a degree that makes him less attracted to her - just as he would have felt towards his mother. Furthermore, how many of us as children really believed that our mothers and fathers had sex? This reasoning is very necessary for a child because it avoids a sense of exclusion from the relationship between mother and father. The child's natural narcissistic thinking cannot cope with the belief that the relationship between his or her parents could be more important than their relationship with the child. You may well remember the shock that you felt when you discovered that it was actually natural for your parents to have sex! But in the context of consenting adults in an adult relationship, you may ask, surely there is permission to have sex, not any kind of psychological restriction on it? Well, possibly, but remember also that when we enter into a committed relationship we are in a sense becoming mother and father ourselves, and whether we like it or not that tends to re-invoke memories of how our own mother and father were sexual, or at least how we perceived to them to be sexual. Whether or not this resonates with you, there is plenty of evidence that this mechanism is indeed work. The prime example of this is the fact that so many couples experience the death of their sex lives when they get married. There are several myths that support this change in our sexual behavior. One of them is that the ceremony of commitment, or even just "moving in" together, represents some kind of transition to a stage of life where sex always has to be an expression of love. Unfortunately there are many reasons in a relationship why love is not something that can constantly be expressed during, or though the mechanism of, sex: these include anger, resentment, frustration, disappointment, our needs not being met, the demands of everyday life, financial stress, loss of freedom, real or supposed, demands of the children, and so on, and so on, and so on. Of course these transitions - from seeing our partner as a sexual partner to a family partner, now a little bit of mum or dad (or even brother or sister) - do not have to happen. The problem is that we are psychologically primed for them to do so, and it takes effort on our part to reverse them. If you believe that you are seeing your parent(s) in your partner, and therefore not feeling sexually attracted to them, we shall offer suggestions as to how to deal with this later on. This phenomenon of projecting characteristics of your parents onto your partner is called transference and is a very predominant reason why people begin to have less sex. After all, you wouldn't have sex with your mother or father, would you? Psychological waters, like a still river, run deep. And for those of us who have a conscious or unconscious belief that sex is for reproduction, for making babies, the fear of pregnancy can be a force that overcomes sexual desire, sexual excitement and spontaneity rather quickly. Nothing can inhibit sexual desire more than the thought of an unwanted child and all that comes with it. But you may say, surely contraception has removed the danger of unwanted pregnancy? Yes, in theory. But in practice there seem to be many couples who express guilt or fear around sex through issues with contraception. A key idea here, perhaps, is the idea that sex is for reproduction and not pleasure, therefore if one enjoys sex for its own sake, one must feel guilty. Developing a fear of pregnancy may be a more acceptable route to avoiding sex than admitting that one feels guilty about indulging oneself simply for sexual pleasure. It is also conceivable that when people complain about contraception - for example the mess of inserting a diaphragm, or the loss of erection that follows the unwrapping of the condom packet - they are simply expressing their sexual hang-ups or conflicts about the purpose of sex within their relationship. If you're a man who has had problems with loss of erection when he puts on a condom, or a woman who has experienced the mess of spermicidal gel in the middle of foreplay, you may find it difficult to believe the proposition that the real issue you're dealing with is about the purpose of sex. But consider that you can put in a diaphragm is several hours before sex, or that putting on a condom to an erect penis can be sexually arousing and exciting act, and then ask yourself why contraception has become a big deal for you rather than an exciting part of foreplay or a simple task to be done some hours before you make love? The less common but still frequent converse is the woman who can only enjoy orgasm when she thinks there is a chance of getting pregnant. In essence once again the problem here is that there is confusion about the purpose of sex: is sex for recreation or is sex for reproduction? Getting over this issue may be as simple as giving yourself permission to enjoy sex for sex's sake, but we will look at what you can do to make this easier in a later section. And we will also examine ways that you can incorporate contraception into your lovemaking without losing an erection or losing the flow. One of the most pernicious reasons why sex slows down is a myth that sex becomes less frequent as a couple grow older. Yet the main reason why men and women around middle age have less sex is that they believe middle aged people have less sex! The reality is that when a woman goes through the menopause she has the freedom to enjoy sex without worrying about pregnancy or contraception; she has the maturity to know her body well and to reach orgasm more easily; and, if the children have left home, she probably also has the time and energy to enjoy sex more often. For a man in middle age it is true that his erection may be less firm or less frequent, and sexual desire can be lower. Low testosterone affects rather more men in mid-life than has been generally recognized: you can read about the effects of this male "andropause" here. Even so, these problems can be dealt with, and the reality is that the only reason why a couple would have less sex just because they were middle-aged is that they believe middle-aged couples have less sex. One practical benefit of age is that when a man's sexual desire decreases in middle age, the time it takes him to become fully aroused gets longer, so the length of time for which he can make love (in the sense of the time between vaginal penetration and thrusting to orgasm and ejaculation) increases....and that sounds like a recipe for sexual happiness! What else? Well, good communication in a relationship is an art that takes some effort, and some learning. Without clear and effective communication, couples may find they become increasingly resentful over misunderstandings and issues. Mostly, of course, the outcome is suppressed anger. Ask yourself if you feel angry towards your partner. You may not even know, because we are good at disguising our emotions from ourselves. So ask yourself what emotions you feel towards your partner. And if you still believe you do not know, ask yourself this: "If you did know, what emotion(s) would they be?" If the answer to that question is anger then it is almost certain that your partner also has some unexpressed anger towards you. And nothing gets in the way of sex more than anger! And yet, discharging anger in a clean way that does not cause further damage, is a skill that can be learned, and a skill which few couples have. More on this later. There is a myth that a good argument - fighting - clears the air and is often followed by great sex. Yes, true, couples often find fighting to be sexually stimulating. One reason for this is that it gets rid of tension and it establishes contact between a couple (and paradoxically it also gives them more sense of self and establishes clear boundaries, or at least clearer ones) - but I think the main reason why fighting can lead to good sex is that it is passionate. In most relationships which have lasted more than two years there is a noticeable lack of passion; although we think of passion as being mostly sexual, the reality is that passion is a word that can relate to many emotions and many different situations. Think about how you use the word passion: you can be passionate about your job, passionate about your interests; passion can encompass many emotions from sexual desire through to anger. With the excitement of a passionate emotion like anger to stir us, hot sex may not be far behind. However, as we shall see, a better way to get in the mood and have good sex is to promote passionate sexual feelings, not angry feelings! And, having said that, if you are in a situation where anger is troubling you and your partner, exercises which can help to discharge the anger and re-establish intimacy can be very sexually stimulating - again, more on this later. Sometimes sex stops simply because a couple are bored or because sex has become routine, predictable. And, most of all, sex is no longer exciting. If this is the pattern of your sex life, why would you wish to initiate sex? The reward would be hardly worth the effort. The solution here is to make sex more exciting, more intimate, more varied, and more interesting - and, of course, much more rewarding and orgasmic. There than are plenty of ways to do this which we shall look at later on. Couples with young children may well find children interrupting their lovemaking. Many parents will just feel tired at the end of a day looking after young children - a demanding job that saps one's energy and reduces the desire to make love. As always, though, with the right solutions, and enough imagination, you can find the time and space for a passionate and exciting sex life - it's all about shifting your thinking to a different place, a place where sex is no longer a chore, but a part of everyday life which is fun and stimulating. Sex can become a part of life like eating and drinking, something which folds naturally into the day-to-day routine, rather than being seen as something which you have to find time for, and which is at the bottom of your list of priorities! One surprising finding, seen over and over again, is that sex diminishes in quality, excitement and frequency after a couple settle down, get married, or have a family. The surprising explanation for this is that we may well be suffering from a biological program known as the "incest taboo". This is a very important genetic mechanism which prevents us from finding those people with whom we grow up sexually attractive. Indeed, the ultimate taboo in most societies is to be sexual towards one's mother, father, brother, or sister. We grow up with this taboo, and when we have a family, it is more than likely that it will come into play in our own lives - but not just with our children! For, when we recreate a family of our own, symbolized by marriage or children, or even just by settling down with a partner, we reactivate the beliefs and taboos that we picked up about sexual behavior as we grew up. Think for a moment how you, as a child, felt about sex. Did you ever think of your mother and father having sex? You can probably remember the sense of shock and disbelief you felt when you found out that they did! And perhaps you even felt an accompanying sense of disgust? We all carry something like this belief into adulthood: that men and women, mothers and fathers, although in a loving relationship, may only have sex for the purpose of making babies. Or perhaps, you believe that "mother and father" sex is the kind of sex that expresses lifelong devoted love, but not intimacy, spontaneity or passion (or, even, god help us, lust!). Unfortunately, this rather eliminates most of the best reasons for having sex: fun, intimacy, and, above all, lust and sexual desire for your partner! You may find this concept hard to believe. Am I really suggesting that memories of our parents, evoked by being in a long-term relationship, deaden sexual desire and lust when we are adults? Well, yes, that is exactly what I am suggesting. As you were growing up in your parents' home you were not turned on by the people around you (and even in those rare and unhappy cases where sexual abuse may have meant that you were turned on in this way, the taboo against sex with your close relations still exists). The simple truth is that when we have a safe loving home of our own, it may become one of the places we find it hardest to have uninhibited sex. More fundamentally, it's all too easy for us to fall into certain roles and relate to each other in ways which, to put it bluntly, women may become mothers to their partners, and men may become fathers to their partners. It's a truism that we tend to enter into relationships with people who resemble, at the least in some way, our opposite sex parent. The sad thing about this phenomenon is that we are trying, albeit unconsciously, to resolve the emotional conflicts, the unspoken and unmet needs, and, worst of all, the unexpressed emotions that arose between us and our parents - but we are trying to do it with our partners, who should be relating to us as fully sexual beings, as equal adults, not as substitute mothers or fathers! We all fall into these roles unconsciously: our partners evoke in us memories of childhood, as well as the intense emotions which went along with our relationships with our parents and siblings. And of course, we evoke the same things in them, and before you know it, you're back in a child-parent type relationship - arguing, whining, wheedling, being sullen, and who knows what else - but definitely not being sexual! It's this unfortunate resemblance between some aspects of our partner and our opposite sex parent (a phenomenon called transference) that can make the idea of an affair - a sexual affair with a stranger who does not carry this transference - seem so attractive. (Of course there are many other reasons men and women have affairs, such as the excitement and the thrill of illicit sex - which we will look at later.) It is always surprising to me how many couples marry or settle down because they call themselves soul mates, or best friends, only to find that sexual attraction dies very quickly after the relationship is established. And yet it is a commonplace that good friends do not have sex with each other. They are friends because they share interests and possibly a similar outlook and attitude; they do not feel passionate towards each other. It's possible that people choose a friend or soul mate to settle down with because they believe that exciting sex only happens outside marriage. If you think about it, this is rather like many men's opinion that women are divided into two groups: the whores and the Madonnas. One has great sex with a whore, but you might not want to be best friends with her. Your best friend, your support, your soul mate even, might be the Madonna, but she is a saint, not someone with whom you can have raw, raunchy sex! This isn't always true of course. Many men see a long-term relationship as the only place in which sex should happen. And so, for a while, it does - but eventually it stops, the victim of powerplay such as we described above, or lack of time - or at least, a supposed lack of time - or the children's demands, or family commitments, or long-term familiarity with one's partner, or one of a thousand other "reasons". Over the years I've been able to predict with a fair degree of accuracy which of my friends' marriages would survive more than five years. Often the ones which provoked the questions "What on earth brought them together?" are the ones which have eventually split up. They are the relationships marked by an obvious imbalance between the partners: perhaps a naive (young) woman with an older man who can play at being her daddy, or a naive young man with a more sophisticated woman who can "mother" him. No wonder these relationships fail! No-one wants to marry their mother; no-one wants to marry their father! (Well, we may, as children, want to marry our mother or father, but we never have raunchy sex with them!) This website is not specifically about the power within relationships that leads people to choose a mate who resembles their opposite sex parent. Even so, if you feel like these are elements of your relationship, there are powerful and effective ways of removing the transferential image of your mother from your female partner if you are a man, and removing the transferential image of your father from your male partner if you are a woman. We shall look at these in a later section. By the way, it's worth remembering before you blame your partner for being too much like your mother/father, that it is almost always both partners who fall unconsciously into the roles of parent/child. If you're a man who likes your partner to iron your shirts and put your socks away, you may like it less when she tells you to take off your shoes and wipe your feet before you come in, and starts correcting your behavior when you're with friends, or reminds you to make sure you have your gloves and wrap up well when it's cold weather. If any of that makes you feel less of a man, then perhaps it's no surprise that your erection falters when you get into bed with her. If you're a woman and you flutter your eyelashes at your husband or partner to get him to help you out because "I'm just a girl", it may be no surprise that when you get into bed your sexual feelings towards your daddy have disappeared. Even now there is a pernicious belief that men have to lead and to be the boss in sex and relationships - especially marriage. You might think that after generations of campaigning by feminists for sexual equality these prejudices would have diminished. Unfortunately, it seems little has changed, at least in some areas of society. Wherever you look there are families and relationships where the man still behaves like a tyrant ruling over his family with an iron fist of control. In the process he turns off sexual desire in his partner. Power plays and imbalances of power which may at first seem attractive can become a distinct turn-off and kill the desire for sex in any relationship. Like many people of a certain age, you may have lived through a time of great sexual experimentation. Perhaps you had many different partners before you settled down; perhaps you tried sex in all kinds of illicit places. But whatever your sex life was like, you may have found the excitement of these experiences contrasts markedly with the level of excitement you feel in your current relationship! Maybe you feel that the exotic stuff is just "not right" with your lifelong partner? Once again, this reflects how faulty beliefs about sex can interfere with your current sex life. We all carry hundreds or thousands of beliefs around with us, beliefs which we never consciously question, but which have the power to stop us enjoying exciting sex. For example, do you think, at some level, that thrilling sex can only happen outside marriage? This reflects the fact that men are brought up to believe "you marry a saint but you have great sex with a whore" (or a mistress). For women the taboos and expectations of society have always been different. Women have been subjected to the beliefs that men should lead and women should follow in sex; that a man should know what to do to take a woman to orgasm; that a woman should be a virgin before marriage; and so on......In general, women have not been encouraged to explore their own bodies or to get a sense of their own sexuality which would enable them to enjoy sex in general, and orgasms in particular, easily and freely. And while none of these beliefs, these faulty beliefs, apply to all individuals, what is certain is that they can, and do, taint our sex lives for the worse. For women in particular sexual experimentation may be challenging. In the face of such unequal expectations between men and women, how can women learn to be sexual? How are they to translate those beliefs and prejudices, and the sexual experience - or lack of it - which flows from them, into great sex into a long-term relationship, especially if their partner lacks knowledge or confidence? And women do like sex. They may very often be inhibited about asking for things: oral sex being a good example, and masturbation being another. We will look later on at how many women find mutual masturbation or oral sex more satisfying than intercourse, but the point that I want to make now is simply that expectations about each other's sexual behavior which are based on social taboos, prejudices and double standards will not help to maintain a healthy and exciting sexual life inside a long-term relationship. Let me ask you a question. How do you see sex? Do you see it as a task which you have to complete efficiently, or do you see sex as a joyous, relaxed, uninhibited process that may take five minutes or five hours? I have no doubt that your answer to this question will reveal in some way how exciting and fulfilling sex was/is for you, and how long it will remain an important part of your relationship. Those men who see sex as an orderly task to be completed efficiently bring a degree of precision to lovemaking which turns off their partners rather quickly. For example, they may know which bits to touch, which "buttons" to press, and how to bring a woman to orgasm quickly and effectively. They may know for how long they can thrust before they ejaculate. They may know exactly how they want to "enjoy" sex. But in such a performance-oriented view of sex, intimacy and real connection between the partners is missing. Women who have partners with this approach to sex may very quickly be turned off, and come to resent sex, feeling that it is a duty, and seeing it as a job like putting out the rubbish - one best performed as quickly and efficiently as possible to get it over and done with. Their male partners, meanwhile, are so wrapped up in whether they are doing it right or not that they don't even notice their partners' dissatisfaction. And many men still hold to the belief that they have to be the leader during sex. Even though almost all these men enjoy giving up the position of initiator and director, they find it hard to do so. When encouraged to relax and to take pleasure, with their wife or partner as the active instigator of sex, perhaps even the "sexual aggressor", they can get turned-on to a degree they'd never have suspected possible. For as long as they don't get this chance, or refuse to take it, their partners are deprived of sexual pleasure and the opportunity to express their sexuality as the dominant partner. I have seen couples who have struggled with such power dynamics for ten or more years before the issue has finally come to a head, and usually only then because the woman has finally taken matters into her own hands and taken the lead during sex. Often, the consequence of this is so dramatic - in terms of the man feeling threatened, rejected, or anxious - that sex stops altogether. Changes in the balance of power can indeed be too much for some men and women to take! I suppose that it is possible to come up with as many reasons why sex diminishes in importance and frequency in a relationship as there are sexless couples in relationships! As you read through the reasons why sex disappears from a relationship, and resentment grows in its place, you may find things that resonate with your own situation. Rest assured, please, that all of these situations can be dealt with - and no matter how different the cause of the dearth (or even the death) of sex in a relationship, the cures are surprisingly similar! We'll look at plenty of these cures in the later sections of this website,

Top tips for exam preparation

It's that time of year again when the sun is shining, the mercury is rising and the air is filled with the frantic twitter of dawn birdsong. Such a shame that so many undergraduates are still awake at 5am to hear it, usually from the purgatory of a darkened room while hunched over a pile of books. Yes, it's exam time, and for those with finals the summer break can't come soon enough. For now, though, there's some serious business. Here are 10 expert tips to help prepare you for the dreaded exam room. 1. Look after yourself Try to be well rested and well nourished in preparation for exams. "Drink plenty of fluids, eat a good healthy breakfast," advises Professor Sarah Moore, co-author of The Ultimate Study Skills Handbook. "The fresher and more energetic you feel, the more it will support your ability to tackle the cognitive challenges." 2. Plan your work Some people concentrate better at night, others prefer to be up with the larks. Stick to a consistent working pattern so your mind and body can adjust, and take plenty of short breaks. 3. Know your examiner Unlike GCSEs and A-Levels, where examination papers are formulated by matriculating exam boards, at university, course lecturers often set the questions – which should help when trying to anticipate them. "The strange thing is, the examiner who sets and marks the paper is a familiar figure," says Kate Williams, editor of Palgrave Macmillan pocket study skills. "It's the same person who designed your course or module, whose lectures you've attended." Hopefully … 4. Be on top of the practicalities It is easy to forget practical details, so be clear about simple things like start times, venue, equipment, material you can or cannot bring, and so on. "Being on top of all these can make a huge difference in your poise and performance and will help avoid unnecessary last-minute jitters," advises Moore. 5. Get hold of recent exam papers Go back a few years and consider the kind of questions that came up. Don't assume that these will be on the paper, but look at the relationship between the questions and course content, says Williams. "Is there a question per topic? Are topic areas combined in different ways? What is the style of the question – single focus or direct question, or does your examiner go in for questions with two or more bits?" 6. Try and work out your examiner's marking scheme "Maybe it's an oversimplification to assume that if the question carries five marks there need to be five points, but this isn't a bad start," says Williams. "Marks are allocated for something." 7. Don't despair Even if you feel underprepared, you can do a lot with the short time you have left. "Night-before notes can be an active way of capturing, condensing and summarising your exam material," says Moore. "Sketching out short signposts is a great way of gaining last-minute command over some of the trickier aspects of your studies." 8. Tighten up your essay technique In an exam, it doesn't matter what you know if you can't express it clearly and concisely. Essays should begin with a short introduction stating your position, followed by a series of paragraphs that each make a clear point, and a short conclusion supporting the argument outlined in the intro. "The examiner will be reading fast," points out Williams. "With only three minutes per essay, ease of reading makes for a more cogent argument." 9. Clockwatch Be aware of what you can realistically do in the allotted time. If you have one hour per question, you might allow around 10 minutes to consider the question and jot down notes, then 45-50 minutes writing time. But don't be tempted to skimp on one question to lavish time on another, urges Williams. "The first 50% of marks in any question are much easier to pick up than the next 20%," she says. 10. Avoid postmortems As soon as one exam is over, move swiftly to focusing on the next one. "Dwelling on an exam that you have completed wastes energy and time, and will drive you crazy," says Moore. "Remember, be positive, stay calm, and mobilise your energies to do the best job possible on the day."

What you Need to Make your Relationship Perfect

A relationship is only complicated when one person is running it… Relationships aren’t suppose to be easy. They require hard work, compromise, dealing with someone else’s problems, and looking at someone else’s messes. A perfect relationship means doing those things well. Expect long nights of fights and talks, heart ache and times of questioning and understanding. It won’t be easy but only those who can stick through it survive the first step in relationships. A true friend does four things for you. first, they must understand your past. secondly, believe in your future. thirdly, take you the way you are presently. and fourthly, help you, keep focus to your dreams and aspirations. Find Someone! Find someone who isn’t afraid to admit that they miss you. Someone who knows that you’re not perfect, but treats you as if you are. Someone who’s biggest fear is losing you. One who gives their heart completely. Someone who says I love you and means it. Last but not least, find someone who wouldn’t mind waking up with you in the morning, seeing you in wrinkles and your gray hair, but still falls for you all over again.

Boko Haram Accountant Arrested With N4.5m Cash

The government’s effort in putting an end to the security threat posed by Islamic sect, Boko Harm in Nigeria seems to be bearing fruits as a man reported to be the accountant of the group has been arreested. The accountant was said to be travelling between Kano and Zaria last week, with N4.5 million cash belonging to the Islamist group when men of the Joint Task Force apprehended him. Vanguard newspaper sources said he was travelling in a commuter bus as a cover. The Islamist group’s accountant’, it was learnt, embarked on the journey which originated from Maiduguri, Borno State, to make cash transfers. The sources said his cover blew after he and another associate made some money transfers in Kano, an action that aroused the curiosity of bank officials who alerted security agents. This led to the arrest of the associate but, as at that time, the `accountant’ was already on his way to Zaria. Security operatives went after the man in a serious manhunt that yielded fruit as the `Boko Haram accountant’ was arrested on his way to Zaria. He is now being interrogated by security agents. There has been reports of a bomb blast in a Catholic church in Bauchi State this morning. Although, the Islamic sect group has not claimed responsibilty for the attack, the group has been linked to similar attacks in the past. The Islamist group has claimed responsiblity for several deadly attacks in the northern part of the country. The arrest may prove a great breakthrough in putting an end to the menace.

Man Caught with dead Baby Inside the Suit Case Taking him for Ritual

Fellow Nigerians the picture u see here is not a scene from a movie. It is real. The man u see was caught with a 2year old dead boy in a suitcase taking the child for ritual. As we approach December parents should be conscious of the movements of their kids and female teens. Pick them from school urself.

A lot of LAZY people are out there looking for pray to kill for sacrifice to get rich and travel to their villages in december to show off. this man was caught at Tipper garage near Gwarimpa in Abuja yesterday with a dead baby stuffed in a suitcase.They said he was arrested on a tip off…but another source said that the conductor of the bus he entered asked him to bring his suitcase so it can be stored properly and the man vehemently refused.

The suspicious conductor asked him what was inside the suitcase and he refused to say. As the man tried to leave the bus, the conductor and others seized the suitcase from him and found the dead boy inside.God this is so bad, how could people be this heartless?

Premiere of New Music Video by the Talented Oshadipe Twins

The gorgeous identical Oshadipe twins Taiye and Kehinde have dropped a new music video titled Dide Olorunmi remix.
The multi-talented singer sisters cum actresses featured in the popular TV drama series ‘Sister Sister’ and they are moving to higher heights in the music scene.
They have 3 albums to their credit and the former ‘Angelic voices’ started singing in church when they were young.
They have been immensely mentored by several intellectuals in the entertainment industry and they have also been lucky to share the same stage with many of the big-names in the industry both locally and internationally including Michael Bolton, Angie Stone,Ebenezer Obey and many more.

CHIEGE ALISIGWE INTRODUCED US TO NOLLYWOOD

Kindly introduce yourselves to our readers.

We are Chidimma and Chidiebere Aneke, from Enugu State, Nkanu precisely. We are actresses and producers.  We have done lots of movies, like, 2 Rats, The Man, Lagos Girls, Ujuaku The Tigress, The Eye, The Light, Broken Ambitions, Broken Soul, Compulsory Risk, Days of Blood, Sisters Face, Revenge of The Gods, Jealous Friend, Mystic Ring, Broken Pot, Lost Wealth, National Experience and National Service, Soul on Fire, and lots more. We are the Nollywood twins.

Our readers are interested in knowing how you got into acting.

We were invited by Chiege Alisigwe’s family. We got into Nollywood through her. She saw our picture with our sister, Favor Aneke Anih,and asked her to invite us. We came, and that’s how it all started.

Sexiest body part?

Our lips.

Would you act Nude?

We can if it has a positive impact in our society, but we cannot just do just for fun

Nollywoodgossip wishes you the best.

Thanks for having us.

LIZ BENSON TO RETURN TO ACTING BEFORE DECEMBER

Nollywood actress turned evangelist, Liz Benson is back to acting. The legendary movie superstar is currently on movie set with Nextpage Production and the movie is set to be released before the end of the year. 

SHOCKING: Nollywood Actor Rich Oganiru In Prison After Confessing To Killing Wife

National Enquirer just reported this shocking news. Additional credit to CKN Nigeria.

National Enquirer magazine has reported that though Rich Oganiru`s name might not really ring a bell again but he`s one of Nollywood`s very good actors and stakeholders. In fact, he prides himself as one of the pioneering members of the Actors Guild of Nigeria and has starred in over 300 movies.
Please look at his pictures again if you`re still in doubt because he`s presently battling a murder scandal for his alleged involvement in the complicity leading to the death of a very rich Abuja based multimillionaire businesswoman believed to be his wife.

The deceased, National Enquirer gathered reliably is not his first wife, the first wife also died mysteriously years back and he was in a very poor state of life before he met the Abuja based multimillionaire who transformed his life in a matter of months.

Rich Oganiru, according to those who know him, loves money and attention almost to a fault, aside that, he also likes blowing his own trumpet as he always praises himself, “I have starred in over 300 movies, I am the Corporate Marketing Consultant to the Abuja Chapter of AGN, a high flying Evangelist called to lead the skilled and unskilled gifted in art to realize their God`s given potentials in the Kingdom. I am the General Overseer of Davidical Order Ministry, we discover, develop, expose, empower and evangelize musicians, actors, and artistes to be relevant in their different churches- a non-denominational outreach for the entertainment industry”, his self-appraisal on Facebook page.

The Owerri born actor is, as you read this, swimming in a murder scandal that might have him behind bars for the rest of his life except for divine intervention. Mr. Rich, according to our own findings has featured in movies such as

Queen of Hasso Rock, Wasted Effort, Pay Day, Lacrima, Stoneface in Love, Givers Never Lack, His Majesty, Yellow Fe Rich Odichinma Azu ver, My Destiny, Battle Of The Rich, Political Control, Touching Love, Total Control, Last Confession as well as many others.

This office can exclusively disclose that the actor is presently at the homicide section of the force headquarters, Abuja where he’s being held for killing his wife, a top business woman in Abuja.

Tracing the genesis of their liaison, we gathered that the deceased met Rich Oganiru who already lost his wife and mother of his two boys at a time he was facing financially challenges and could hardly afford daily meal. Rich, our source explained was able to win the pretty woman’s heart after sweet tonguing her especially because he’s a known face who’s featured in several movies.

This, we further gathered was how the woman in a short while brought back smile to the face of the light skinned actor to the extent that, he became financially buoyant and had even started cruising one of her cars. The relationship as expected blossomed into marriage within a short period and the actor we learnt even had a traditional wedding with his supposed God sent wife. The union, we learnt however took a new dimension when Rich began to complain of his wife’s inability to get pregnant.

Meanwhile, the woman had, by this time handed over the documents of her landed properties as well as making him part of the signatories in her firm. The affair, we reliably learnt took another twist as the graduate of music, Rich started seeing a younger lover, Iyake, a calabar born undergraduate of Nassarawa State Polytechnic whose mother owns a shop in Abuja.

“He`s always hibernating everyday for hours with a young girl whose mother owns a shop at the popular area known as Food Court built by El Rufai where there are banks, it is so shameful for a man like that doting on a young girl,” the source disclosed.

While doting on a young girl outside, the actor, who the source revealed is also an ex Naval officer kept mounting pressure on his wife to get pregnant shunning the fact that the business woman was suffering from Fibroid. This, we gathered might not be far from the reason the woman had to take the decision to get the fibroid removed by all means.

Quoting the source “It was Rich’s unnecessary pressure on the lady that made her resulted into having a fibroid operation in a private hospital in Abuja which she luckily survived but only recuperating at the hospital before she was allegedly poisoned”.

The woman we were told, however met her untimely death few days after the surgery when her husband was said to have visited the hospital and allegedly gave her a pill without the doctor`s consent claiming that it would aid her speedy recovery, not knowing that it was poison.

The whole thing started looking suspicious when Rich who had sold some of his wife’s landed property for a church member for N2.5m requested for her death certificate. The actor we gathered claimed that he urgently needed the certificate to sort out some personal issues instead of informing the wife’s family or at least show a remorse for the irreparable loss.

In addition, the church member who bought the land, according to our source also smelled fowl play because Rich refused to have his wife’s signature on the land receipt neither did he even inform any of her family member claiming that he’s the husband and has the right to sell her land. This, we learnt informed the church member’s interest to investigate the actual cause of Rich’s wife death.

“This was how the man reported the whole land story as well as the woman’s death to her family and it was what made them involved the police before the doctor and Rich were arrested” the source revealed.

The doctor, knowing that his hands were clean, therefore suggested an autopsy which shockingly revealed a poisonous pill in the woman’s system. The said poison we gathered was ingested between the time her husband visited the night before she died.

The nurses were also said to have saw her sleeping few minutes after Rich left not knowing that she was dead in her sleep. The actor, our source added later confessed killing his wife after much torture in police cell without any cogent reason. We also learnt that Rich is still in the police custody in Abuja while remains of his wife have been deposited in the mortuary, we shall however bring you unfolding details as events unfold.

ENCOUNTER WITH JUMMAI JOSEPH ---My Wedding Is This December

One of the hottest Nollywood Stars, Jummai Joseph whom we wrote a gist about her rumoured secret wedding has at last opened up. 
The tall and ever-radiant screen goddess, Jummai had a brief chat with Nollywood At Large few weeks ago and she talked about this and that.

What has been happening to you?

You know I was in school now, I just came back to do my stuff.

They say you went to do a secret wedding, true or false?

Secret wedding! Where did that rumor emanate from?

What you are saying now is that there was no secret wedding?

You should contact your source to give you details. I am not supposed to tell you if there was or not. 

Ok! Can we know who the lucky guy is?

I think it’s a private issue.

Not really, your fans are curious to know what is happening to their idol

I appreciate it a lot that my fans want to know happenings in my life but they should know that my private life is something I cannot be spreading it like wildfires. If they really want to know who my man is, I can assure them that before the end of this year, I will invite them for my wedding.

Is he supportive career wise?

If he’s not supportive, I wouldn’t have been here. He’s very supportive, kind and caring.

Give us an insight into his background now or are you not proud of him?

Why won’t I be proud of my husband? The person I have in my life knows that I am proud of him, it’s not until I say it to you here.

It seems you are not ready to say anything about him, let’s believe he stays abroad and does not want some nasty stories about the affair before he returns

Gentle jacks cousine in car theft

Gist getting to polyunwana gist me corner, has it that one Jack David otherwise known as Prada, who is now at large, has been accused of stealing a Nissan Pathfinder car belonging to one up and coming artiste, Charles Graville. Prada, as we reliably gathered, is the nephew of Nollywood actor, Gentle Jack. He is aged 19 years. 

As the story goes, Prada reportedly approached Charles as the PR manager of Scintilla. He allegedly offered to work for the singer. After much pressure, he was told given an opportunity to work as Charles' PA. This happened, according to what Charles told this blog, on Friday, August 3 at the premiere of Last Flight to Abuja held in Lekki, Lagos.

Soon after the premiere and after party, Charles said he drove home with his
manager, a colleague, a radio presenter and Jack. The next day (Saturday), Charles said he dropped Prada and others off at a bus stop and then gave him (Prada) 5,000 Naira to use as transport fare. 

On Monday night, August 6, Charles said Prada came to his house on the pretence of leaving his mum's umbrella in his (Charles) car. Charles said he told him he would give the umbrella to his gateman so that Prada would get it the next day since he would be travelling the next day. 
Though, Prada agreed, as we gathered, but he reportedly came back that night to plead with Charles to spend the night at his place since it was already late. This, as Charles told us, he agreed to and left him downstairs playing his PS 3 game. 

The next day, after waking up at 9am, which was unsual of him as he told us, he found out that Prada was no where to be found. His PS 3, laptop, blackberry phones and his Nissan Pathfinder registered first with MUS 750 AJ, but now using peace ambassador number plate; PEACE 701 were all missing. 

PROCEDURES FOR USING AUCHI POLYTECHNIC ONLINE APPLICATION ADMISSIONS PLATFORM

Read and follow the steps below carefully.

1.       Gently scratch the covered portion of the Admission request Access Card to uncover the hidden Access Number (Pin Code).  This is a 12 digit number under the foil.

2.       Open your web browser and type in Auchi Polytechnic URL:www.auchipoly.edu.ng to display the Auchi Polytechnic web page.

3.       At the top left corner of the page, you will see the Admissions link.  Click on NEW ADMISSIONS. But if you have filled an application form previously with your access card, and you desire to edit or print copies of the form or Acknowledgement Slip, just enter your username and password then click login.

4.       The Application Form Request Page will appear.

5.       Carefully complete the Application form request form that is displayed when you clicked New Admissions.  Ensure that you provide all required information.  Note: Provide a user-name, (preferably your e-mail address) and a password.  Write your user name and password in a safe place because you will need them for subsequent logins.  Then type in the Access Card Pin Code as required.  Then click submit.

6.       Complete the Application form that is displayed carefully.  Ensure that you provide all required information correctly as false information may disqualify your application.

7.       Fill in the subjects and grades you obtained in the specified examinations you have taken.

8.       Fill in Your Sponsorship and reference details as required and save the form.

9.       If you are sure that all in-formation provided are correct you can finally click Submit to finish the application process.

10.     You will be prompted to upload your passport.  Make sure your passport is not larger than 2×2 inches in sizes.

11.     If you are sure all information provided are correct, click Submit Application Form.

12.     Print a copy of the Acknowledgement slip and two copies of the application form.

13.     Attach photocopies of your credentials and birth certificate to the forms and enclose them in the envelope already purchased.  Then submit the envelope at the Bank where you purchased the application access card.

Note: After completion, the candidate can re-open the form anytime before the closing date by logging in with his/her username and password, for the purpose of editing and /or additional information.   However, once the candidate has submitted the completed form online, he/she can no longer have access to the form for the purpose of editing, but the candidate can access the form to be able to print copies of the acknowledgement slip or the application form.

If you have any difficulty in completing the application form, please call or text any of the following numbers (between 9. a.m. and 4p.m. week days)

(i)           07087129298 – (Technical problems only)

Besides, applicants are advised to enclose photocopy of receipt of purchase of forms alongside their completed application forms.

Note: All admitted candidates are to check their names online

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT APPOINTS REGISTRAR AND BURSAR FOR KADUNA POLYTECHNIC

The Honourable Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayatu Ahmed Rufai (OON), has approved the appointment of Alh. Zayyana Ibrahim Kukasheka as the Registrar and Alh. Sani Sahabi Bodinga as Bursar of Kaduna Polytechnic for a single period of five years with effect from 9th July, 2012 ...read more
KADPOLY IS 50 (1956 to 2006) As the polytechnic intensifies efforts towards the much talked about golden jubilee (this year), several committees have swung into action to ensure that the grand event befits the 50th anniversay of the largest technical institution in sub-saharan Africa.
KADPOLY SHINES IN CANADA Kadpoly came third in the recent SIFE (students in free enterprise) international competition. It represented Nigeria at the competition held in Toronto, Canada. The kadpoly team competed in two different leagues and came first before qualifying to the finals where it clinched the third overall position.
Briefing the Rector on return from Canada, the leader of the delegation and coordinaor of the team, Prof Sanee Sulyman Ugya said "with this victory nigeria is now rated number three (3) out of over 1800 Universities and Polytechnics around the world that teach and practices entrepreneurship education". He later presented three trophies won by the team to the Rector. .
BIG, STRONG, RELIABLE FRIENDS OF KADPOLY Union Bank of Nigeria PLC recently donated new branded computers to the department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. In his speech at the occasion the Rector Kaduna Polytechnic Engr. Dr Danjuma Ismaila Isah noted that the donation is a testimony of Union bank's commitment to execute its social responsibilities in boosting the fortunes of education in Nigeria.

Students take over Kaduna Polytechnic, give FG 48-hour ultimatum

Thousands of students of the Kaduna Polytechnic yesterday protested over the seeming intractable stand-off between the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUP) branch and the management of the institution, sealing all the entrances to the institution and giving the Federal Government 48 hours to take action on the issue. 

Staff and management of the institution were barred by the students from entering the school premises as the students insisted that the school remain locked up until the Federal Government intervenes by calling off the strike and ordering ASUP to resume academic activities.

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Some of the students came with mattresses to the gate of the institution to sleep, indicating that they would not open it for any worker or the management until the problem is resolved, threatening to “wage war” if the government does not   intervene.

Officers of the State Security Service (SSS) who came to address the issue were denied access to the school while those who gained access were not given audience because the students referred to them as bankers and not SSS. “If truly they are SSS operatives, let them address us before the media,” the students said.  Also during the protest, the students lamented that the Federal Government had neglected them, adding that if it had intervened from the beginning of the crisis, it wouldn’t have lingered on.

“Is the management bigger than the Federal Government? Is ASUP bigger than the Federal Government? So if the Federal Government believes in the transformation they have been talking about, let them intervene with immediate effect, else, there will be war in Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna State and Nigeria,” they said.  Placards with different inscriptions which include: “When two elephants fight, the grass suffers”, “Enough is enough, we want the school opened”, “President Jonathan should prevail on management and union to make peace for the best interest, else...”, “The idle mind is the devil’s workshop,” were displayed by the students who kept shouting, “We want the school opened, we are tired of staying at home.”

Speaking on behalf of the students, the Vice President, Students Union Government (SUG) of the College of Science and Technology (CST) in the polytechnic, Comrade Ibrahim Omotosho, said the management and ASUP were playing with their future.

According to him, over 45,000 students of the institution have been on strike for about six months now, and many of the students died in the post-election crisis while some could not go for their national youth service due to the strike.

“We have refused to engage in any form of riot or protest since the crisis started in January because we know our school is located in a volatile area, so that some people outside the school will not hijack the situation and take it as an opportunity to cause chaos in the state and that was why we called on the students to maintain absolute decorum but now our silence has been taken for granted,” he stressed.

According to him, they had met with several authorities including Kaduna State SSS, Kaduna State Commissioner of Police, management of the polytechnic and ASUP.

“We told them we are not going back on our action until they resume work”, he said.  He added that they were told that without the white paper, they cannot resume academic activities.

“We don’t know why government is delaying the white paper, we have given them a 48-hour ultimatum after which we will block not only the entrances but all roads that lead to Kaduna Polytechnic because we have exercised enough patience,” he said.

He appealed to President Goodlusck Jonathan to start the transformation he promised from Kaduna Polytechnic by ordering ASUP and the school management to come to a consensus and go back to work with immediate effect.

Addressing the students outside the school gate, the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) Alhaji Masud Adamu Kazaure accompanied by the Director, Academic Planning, Kaduna Polytechnic, Ambassador M.J. Mohammed, commended the students for their patience and urged them to continue to be patient.

He said he had spoken with the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, saying he promised to get across to him before the end of yesterday.

He assured the students that something would be done before the end of yesterday.