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[ALERT]: SSS Operatives Surround Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki's Houses

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - Personnel of the State Security Service [SSS] are currently laying siege on the private residence of the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in Asokoro district of Abuja.</b></div>
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A source familiar with the matter told <i><a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/186814-breaking-sss-operatives-surround-ex-nsa-sambo-dasukis-houses.html">PREMIUM TIMES</a> </i>that the operatives, led by one Mohammed, arrived Mr. Dasuki's residence at about 6:40 pm in four Hilux vans and asked all the soldiers on guard to stay away.</div>
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They said they were at the property to see the former NSA for official reasons.</div>
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Another source in Sokoto said another set of SSS operatives are presently carrying out a similar siege on Mr. Dasuki's family House, owned by his father, a former Sultan of Sokoto, Ibrahim Dasuki, in Sokoto metropolis.</div>
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"They have descended on his father's compound in Sokoto  and have so far searched the whole house including a large container that has been in the compound for many years," the source said of the Sokoto home.</div>
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He also said the operatives have locked all occupants of the house inside and are not allowing anyone in or out of the building.</div>
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Our Abuja source said the SSS operatives are still outside the residence of Mr. Dasuki insisting on seeing him and threatening to force their way in.</div>
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"He has refused to let them in and right now they are threatening to force themselves in," he said.</div>
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It is not clear what the former NSA's offences are. The SSS could not be reached for comments at this time.</div>
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Since Marilyn Ogar was removed as spokesperson, the SSS is yet to introduce a new spokesperson to the media.</div>
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But a former aide to the retired colonel said his boss was never invited by anyone to answer any questions they may have.</div>
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"They just descended on his home, no formal invitation, no arrest warrant," the aide said. </div>
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"If they want him to answer question, they should have at least have the courtesy of inviting him. Is it a crime to serve ones country."</div>
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Mr. Dasuki was relieved of his appointment as NSA this week by President Muhammadu Buhari. He was appointed NSA by former President Goodluck Jonathan on June 22, 2012 to succeed, Andrew Azazi, who died in a helicopter crash in Bayelsa state.</div>
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[ALERT]: SSS Operatives Surround Ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki's Houses

ABUJA, NIGERIA - Personnel of the State Security Service [SSS] are currently laying siege on the private residence of the immediate pas...

Buhari Appoints Tolu Ogunlesi as SA on New Media

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<b>LAGOS, NIGERIA - President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed journalist Tolu Ogunlesi as his Special Assistant on New Media.</b></div>
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Mr. Ogunlesi has gone through security screening and his appointment will reportedly be announced in the coming days. He is known as one of Nigeria's most active Twitter users, and was highly critical of the past administration going into the 2015 general elections.</div>
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According to <b><a href="http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/186789-buhari-to-name-journalist-tolu-ogunlesi-sa-new-media.html">Premium Times</a></b>, Mr. Ogunlesi will manage the Buhari administration's social media activity, a role played by Reno Omokiri for the former administration under Goodluck Jonathan.</div>
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Before this appointment, Mr. Ogunlesi was a freelance writer, contributing articles to various publications, most of them abroad. He also wrote opinion articles in many Nigerian newspapers, including <i>SaharaReporters</i> and <i>Premium Times</i>.</div>
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Mr. Ogunlesi was originally trained as a pharmacist and worked as Features Editor for the defunct <i>234NEXT </i>newspapers. In 2009 he was awarded the Arts and Culture prize in the annual CNN Multichoice African Journalism Awards. He won the CNN award again in 2013 in another category.</div>
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Mr. Ogunlesi tweets via <a href="https://twitter.com/toluogunlesi">@toluogunlesi</a> and has over 144,000 followers.</div>
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NFF, Super Falcons Mourn Sudden Death of Team's Media Officer

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - The camp of the Senior Women National Team, Super Falcons, is in mourning following the death on Thursday morning of the team’s Media Officer, Miss Gracious Akujobi.</b></div>
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Doctors confirmed Gracious Akujobi dead on arrival at the General Hospital, Maitama, Abuja at about 7am on Thursday after she suddenly took ill at the team's Parkview Hotel, Zone 1, Abuja.</div>
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She looked very ill and appeared to have struggled hard to open the door to her room, when some persons noticed her. The team doctor and physiotherapist and other officials moved quickly to attend to her and then rushed her to the hospital, but she died on the way.</div>
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"This is a very tragic occurrence. Gracious (Akujobi) was such an energetic, hard-working officer and her death has come as a terrible shock. Her commitment to the job was never in doubt.</div>
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"The NFF is in deep mourning with her family over this tragedy," said NFF General Secretary, Dr. Mohammed Sanusi.</div>
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A native of Owerri, Imo State, Gracious Ihunanya Akujobi was born on 26th October, 1977. She first served as Media Officer of the Super Falcons in 2011, before she was moved to the U-17 Women National Team in 2012. She was re-instated to the senior team in 2013 and was with the team at the recently concluded 7th FIFA Women's World Cup finals in Canada.</div>
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Ex-President Jonathan Sends Anyaoku To Beg President Buhari Not To Probe Him

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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - In a serious state of panic, former President Goodluck Jonathan sends former Commonwealth Secretary General, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, to plead with President Muhammadu Buhari not to launch an official probe of his administration.</b></div>
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Several sources in Abuja, including aides of President Buhari, briefed pressmen exclusively about former President Jonathan's dispatch of Mr. Anyaoku as an emissary to his successor.</div>
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Mr. Jonathan said to have moved quickly to send powerful intercessors to the Presidency after the Buhari administration began to question massive last-minute withdrawals and disappearance of more than $20 billion in government funds stage-managed by former President Jonathan as well as his closest ministers and aides.</div>
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One source familiar with Mr. Anyaoku's desperate mission to President Buhari revealed that the former Commonwealth chief executive urged the new president to remember that Mr. Jonathan voluntarily decided not to contest the results of the March 28, 2015 presidential election, won by Mr. Buhari of the APC, on the understanding that he and his administration would not be subjected to a probe.</div>
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Sources disclosed that Mr. Anyaoku spent a little more than two hours in a close-door meeting yesterday where he sought to prevail on President Buhari to halt the ongoing probe of what happened to billions of public funds during the last few months of the Jonathan government.</div>
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Before imploring Mr. Anyaoku to plead with President Buhari, Mr. Jonathan had also asked former military Head of State, Abdulsalam Abubakar, to speak to the president and suggest a suspension of all ongoing probes. Mr. Buhari has put in place several investigative committees to probe the felonious withdrawal and disbursement of public funds by the Jonathan administration. The presidential committees are charged with advising the administration on strategies for retrieving any public assets stolen by officials and cohorts of the Jonathan Presidency.</div>
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One of the committees has already discovered that Mr. Jonathan and some members of his cabinet apparently colluded in the dying days of the previous government to loot billions of dollars. The funds were looted via the Central Bank of Nigeria, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Ministry of Finance, the Nigerian Maritime Authority, the Federal Capital Territory, and several other departments. A source within the investigative committee revealed that Mr. Jonathan and his closest aides and political appointees made illegal withdrawals of funds to finance his failed bid for re-election into his second term.</div>
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Former Minister of Finance, Mrs. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has stated that former President Jonathan asked her to withdraw more than $1.2 billion from the excess crude account. Even though Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala continues to maintain publicly that she did nothing wrong during her tenure, a source confirmed that the former minister, who coordinated economic affairs during the former president's tenure, has been quietly cooperative with the Buhari administration. According to the source, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala has offered what amounts to a dossier of corrupt deals authorized by the former president.</div>
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In an attempt to curry favor with the new government, Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala recently directed officials of her polling agency, NOI Polls, to give President Buhari a 70% approval rating among Nigerians. "The polling results were simply cooked up," a professional pollster told pressmen. Prior to the 2015 general elections, the former minister's fake polling organization kept repeating that Mr. Jonathan's approval rating was up even as his political fortune plummeted.</div>
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It was also learned that former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, is also actively cooperating with the Buhari administration. Mrs. Alison-Madueke had struck a deal with the new government to submit a document to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) exposing her collaborators at the NNPC. The former Petroleum minister, who was one of the closest cabinet members to Mr. Jonathan - and the mastermind of numerous money laundering deals on behalf of the former president - currently shuttles between the UK and Switzerland. A source close to Mrs. Alison-Madueke said the former minister was receiving treatment in the UK related to breast cancer.</div>
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After emerging from his marathon meeting with Mr. Buhari yesterday, Mr. Anyaoku claimed that he had visited to offer "advice" to the president regarding his forthcoming official trip to the US which is scheduled to start this Sunday.</div>
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A source at the Presidency said that Mr. Anyaoku had misrepresented the purpose of his visit. "The elder statesman [Anyaoku] did not come to advise Mr. President about the trip to the US. The plans for the trip were already concluded a while ago, with all logistics and programming support," the source added.</div>
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Former President Jonathan is currently in Abuja where he remains in constant touch with Abdulsalam Abubakar and other political players to prevail on President Buhari to halt the probe of his administration.</div>
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One source at the Presidency revealed that Mr. Buhari was not receptive to Mr. Anyaoku's pleas. According to the source, the president told the former Commonwealth chief executive that the massive theft of funds by officials of the previous administration had robbed him of funds to start meeting his promises to the Nigerian people. "The president's concern is for everybody who stole funds, including the former president, to disclose their willingness to return their loot to the Nigerian people," the source added.</div>
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Runaway Father of Triple Twins Returns Home

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<b>The father of the multiple twins who fled from his home and expectant wife has shown up - three months after.</b></div>
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Mr. Emeka Uche, after days of persuasion by his wife, Ruth, yesterday returned to a new home, a yet-to-be-painted mini-flat, in Ogun State.</div>
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The Uches used to stay in Agege on the outskirts of Lagos. Mrs. Uche, a teacher, had two sets of twins. Another set came in February.</div>
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Just as this reporter was about to leave her apartment, she came face to face with a light complexioned man wearing an Arsenal jersey, a pair of jeans and slippers, holding two polythene bags.</div>
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He looked confused, uttered no word, save for the exchange of pleasantries and made to move away when Hope, the Uches' former neighbour, saw him.</div>
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"Papa ejima (father of twins), where are you coming from? So you are still alive? Please come inside and sit down," she exclaimed.</div>
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Upon hearing 'Papa ejima', Mrs Uche rushed to the door. She didn't run into his arms to hug or kiss him, but stood and watched him for some minutes after offering him one of the plastic seats in the living room.</div>
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But he did not sit down, rather, he went straight for his newborn babies. He was seeing the three months olds for the first time.</div>
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Uche held both on each arm, smiling and then collapsed into the blue chair, admiring them.</div>
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Still looking at the babies, he asked: "Where are my other children? How are you people?"</div>
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Hope told Uche that the other children were at her aunt's house not too far from the neighbourhood.</div>
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After about seven minutes when Mrs. Uche seemed to have regained her composure, she entered the kitchen, brought a sachet water in a silver steel plate and offered it to her husband who refused to collect it.</div>
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After much persuasion from all the women in the room, Uche finally collected the water and from the way he gulped it, it was obvious he was very thirsty.</div>
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As Mrs. Uche sat down on one of the children's plastic chairs, she asked her husband if he was back for good.</div>
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"God I thank you for answering my prayers. So, you are here. You look emaciated. You have lost so much weight. I hope you have come back for good. Please, do not leave us again," she told Uche, who did not reply.</div>
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Having allowed him play with his babies and relaxed for about 20 minutes, this reporter, reminded Uche of their several telephone discussions.</div>
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He said: </div>
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Like I told you on phone, it was not easy for me. I contemplated suicide on several occasions. I cannot believe I am here, holding my kids for the first time since they were born three months ago. </div>
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When I left, I initially went to the village where I spent a month. After that, I came back to Lagos but stayed with my friend around Oko-Oba in Agege. I still live with him. </div>
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I know that I was not far from them, but I just did not want to return without a better solution on how to cater for my home. I was ashamed too to come back to that house to see them after I'd abandoned them and run away. </div>
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But after our discussions and my wife told me that they had moved, I went to our old house and asked one of the neighbors who had been here for direction so that I could come and see them.</div>
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The road to the Uches' new home was anything but smooth. For a journey that began shortly after mid-day, it took this reporter about two hours to get to the community and another 1 hour 30 mintues more, wandering around the locality until the parties eventually met at a bus stop.</div>
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After the exchange of pleasantries, an excited Mrs. Uche who said she secured a shop and would soon start trading in foodstuff, took this reporter to see her new home.</div>
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Situated in a developing area, the newly built bungalow has three flats.</div>
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Although not painted yet, the house is in a relatively peaceful community. Mrs. Uche seems to have made some friends already.</div>
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Inside her apartment, the parlour and toilet are neatly tiled. The bedroom and kitchen are cemented.</div>
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The apartment is neat, though lacking in basic furniture, which prompted the arrangement of their unpacked luggage-clothes, foodstuff and kitchen utensils- on the floor in the bedroom and kitchen.</div>
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There was relative quiet, but for the tick of the wall clock and occasional cry of her baby. The new residence is a far improvement on the old one.</div>
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Noting that she was eternally grateful to the Lagos State Government and all those who have changed her story, Mrs. Uche said she was yet to consider the school which her children would attend.</div>
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Would I have ever lived in this kind of house with my family and I having a toilet and kitchen to ourselves? I moved in here on Sunday and I am so happy and grateful.</div>
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Aunty, come and see our bedroom; have you seen the toilet? See our kitchen. See me now! I have a room and parlour self-contained. What more can I want, except for my husband to come and enjoy this good life with me?</div>
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People who used to laugh at us for not having food to eat can now see how God works. Even my mother-in-law who has not called me for so long now calls me. I am just so thankful to God because he did not allow me and my children die in shame.</div>
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I have promised God that I will do my best to grow my business. I want to grow and be able to help women with similar case as mine. I want to be able to impact their lives in future as my life was touched and changed.</div>
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<b>ABUJA, NIGERIA - Prominent magazine publisher and former presidential aspirant, Dele Momodu, was at the State House, Abuja, on Wednesday for talks with President Muhammadu Buhari, and explained his recent outburst against the President’s style of governance.</b></div>
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A strong supporter of Buhari during the presidential campaigns, Momodu recently wrote a widely publicized, scathing criticism of the President’s actions and inaction since assuming office.</div>
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Emerging from the meeting with the President, Momodu told journalists that Buhari invited him for a chat and expressed appreciation of the roles of writers, columnists and journalists like him in society.</div>
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On his criticism of Buhari as being too slow since assuming office, the publisher of Ovation magazine said: “You know on social media, people can post anything.</div>
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“I actually wrote him a memo and one of the things I told him was that the job of a columnist is that of an adviser who is not paid.</div>
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“In fact, journalists do more work than those paid to advise the President, and that it is good to listen.</div>
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“And I know he reads voraciously and that was one of reasons he was able to invite me because I wrote what I called a desperate memo to President Buhari.</div>
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“Of course, people slanted it, some people said maybe we are no longer supporting him and all that, but if you like someone you must be able to tell him the truth at all times.</div>
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“What I have realised in so many years of interacting with people in government is that once you get to power, people stop telling you the truth, they tell you only what they think you want to hear.</div>
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“And I’m happy he said we should argue with him, tell him the truth, if things are going wrong and we should not be afraid of telling the truth.</div>
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“And for a man who has been maligned for so many years that he doesn’t like the press, it is a welcome development that he is able to reach out to members of Fourth Estate.”</div>
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The President responded that he was sure of what he was doing, said Momodu, who said Buhari encouraged him to continue to constructively argue with the powers that be and point out any wrongdoings to him.</div>
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According to Momodu: “We discussed different issues affecting our country and I gave him my own idea as a publisher, journalist, a columnist and the way forward for Nigeria.</div>
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“We spoke about security and the efforts he is making; we spoke about anti-corruption crusade and I must say, today, he reassured me that not only does he know what he is doing, he is determined to make Nigeria work.”</div>
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He said the President laughed and found his theory interesting when he called for having more women in government as part of efforts to fight corruption.</div>
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“I said women must be involved in the governance of Nigeria, and he looked at me. I said, ‘Sir, women cannot marry two husbands but a man can have four wives and 10 concubines.’ He laughed so much and almost choked.</div>
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“I said, ‘So, when you talk about corruption, the needs of women are not as big as that of men,’ and he said that was a very interesting theory.”</div>
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