Thursday 25 May 2017

Lai Mohammed This is what happens when the ruling class is older than everyone else


Lai Mohammed This is what happens when the ruling class is older than everyone else

60% of Nigeria’s 200 million people are younger than 30, but the Information Minister’s strategy suggests little regard for how young people find information, or do anything at all.

Minister for Information and Communication, Lai Mohammed briefs Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari (Press)
From the moment Lai Mohammed was screened by the National Assembly to be the nation’s new Information Minister, he faced one simple yet daunting task; providing Nigeria’s citizens with credible and timely information on government activities, programs and initiatives.
The minister has chosen to discharge that duty by questionable means. The results have been largely uninspiring, so much that poor communication is now accepted as one of the biggest failings of the Buhari administration.
Since the earliest months, two main themes have become obvious in Mohammed’s press conferences and statements.
When backed into a tight corner, he is quick to pass the blame and play the victim.
In the months since he took on the role, his major points of call have been the presidency’s performance in key areas and the president’s health.
While the economy still tries to emerge from its first depression in 25 years, President Muhammadu Buhari has spent a large part of the last five months on medical leave in London as he tries to recover from a mystery illness. In both regards, there are serious questions to answer.
Instead, in press conferences and interviews, when asked for comments on these issues, Mohammed suggests a picture where the opposition and its supporters are the enemy and the members of the Buhari administration are saints, complete with halos and golden robes.
Minister for Information and Communication, Lai Mohammed briefs Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari (Press) Minister for Information and Communication, Lai Mohammed briefs Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari (Press)
He answers questions with rhetorical pleas for mercy, whether he’s asking why the media ignores the factors that the administration blames for its poor start or explaining how questions about the president's health are a distraction.
A good example is when a delegation of the National Council of Women’s Societies visited him at his office in Abuja. When asked questions about the welfare of the nation’s citizens, he answered simply, “We are very concerned about the welfare of Nigerians and we are not sleeping; many of our critics have been unfair to us because many of them know that we did not invent the problems we are facing today
In other situations, Mohammed makes veiled attempts at inspiring or appealing to populist sentiments.
Where he has the opportunity to clear the air with facts and credible, timely information, he tries to curry favour with the masses by saying things that suggest that they are being manipulated or misinformed by the media and everyone except the Buhari administration.
Lai Mohammed's rhetoric is designed to suggest that the government has a monopoly of affection; that it is the only entity, human or otherwise, that cares and knows what is best for Nigeria and its people.
Others like every political entity in the opposition are either part of the problem or like the media, sensationalists who only start conversations regarding the presidency's actions to create a distraction from the work in progress.
It sounds too much like the early stages of an abusive relationship.
play The minister's rhetoric plays on government policies and popular sentiment to suggest a simple message; a Nigeria for Nigerians, to the exclusion of those who question the process or show a lack of belief (Press)

In November 2015, when the Treasury Single Account was launched, it met criticism from a large number of people who did not understand the need or the idea behind unifying the government’s accounts.
To clear the air, Mohammed issued a statement, saying “it is understandable that the psyche of those who are making the frivolous allegations concerning the TSA has been badly affected by the impunity that permeated the country under the immediate past administration
“But the lies that have been wilfully disseminated by scandalmongers over the TSA cannot and will not fly", he added, "because it was precise to put an end to such impunity that Nigerians voted massively for President Muhammadu Buhari, who has an unblemished reputation for integrity, due process, transparency and the rule of law
It would have been easier to just explain what the TSA was and why Nigeria needed it at that point in time.
Mohammed occupies a position where, thanks to Buhari’s absence, he has become the main mouthpiece of this administration. The manner he has chosen, however, shows something more than ineptitude.
In a nation where more than half the population is under the age of 30, it shows a lack of understanding of how young people acquire information in the digital age and how that access to information is inspiring a level of enlightenment that has increased what people expect of their leaders.
This, in itself, goes to a larger problem that has been the bane of successive administrations and is a cross that Nigerians have had to bear for decades.
An Information Minister like Lai Mohammed is what happens when the ruling class personalises their claim to power, over too many years.
As the world has learned and (continues to see) in the case of Donald Trump, a lack of experience can be disastrous when one holds important political office. But you find that age is not experience, and knowledge quickly becomes obsolete if one does not stay updated and in touch with things.
And no, appointing 17 30-year-old Special Assistants does not count.
play Despite promises to change the old guard, President Buhari's cabinet is mostly made up of the same politicians who have been in the national conversation since 1999 (Press)

There’s also a sense of aloofness; a tendency to act as if being in office or the political class gives you access to some truths or secrets of the world that remain the same, regardless of quickly the world develops.
It is why the Minister for Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu thinks it’s a good idea to appear in front of pressmen with little more than the news that Nigeria will begin to manufacture match-sticks and pencils in two years.
It is why with the president away with doctors in London, Mohammed thinks it is fine to give non-answers and vague statements as if it is the responsibility of the populace to prove or discover the true state of the president’s health and not the other way around.
The Nigerian ruling class, in 2017, discharges their duties by doing the exact same things that their peers did in the decades before them. It would seem that for them, the biggest evidence of staying abreast of the times is opening a twitter account.
Nigeria's biggest problem is the culture of political actors in the corridors of power.
The simple reason why every successive government seems eerily like the one before them is because the same set of people have been in those corridors since a few years after the nation gained its independence.
This group of people is referred to by most political scholars and commentators as the class of 1966.
In January 1966, 22 notable Nigerian leaders including the Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, the Premiers of the Northern and Western Regions, Ahmadu Bello and Samuel Ladoke Akintola were killed in a coup led by a majority of mutinous soldiers, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna.
A number of soldiers, particularly from the Northern Region, were not enthused about this and in July 1966, they launched the counter-coup that put Yakubu Gowon in power.
Of the 32 soldiers that planned and executed that coup, four became head of state in the years that followed; General Sani Abacha, General Ibrahim Babangida, Brigadier-General Murtala Mohammed and Muhammadu Buhari, (twice as a general in 1984 and a civilian in 2015).
Although he was not a part of the team, a certain Olusegun Obasanjo was a friend of that class, and in time, after Murtala Mohammed, he got his own taste of power.
play Soldiers of Fortune: General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and General Sani Abacha (Archive)

There are familiar names among the remaining officers. Many like John Shagaya, Paul Tarfa, John Nanven Garba and the more prominent Theophilus Danjuma have held various senior executive and legislative posts in successive governments; the rest have spread their tentacles and established themselves in various levels of power.
The team that plotted the coup on July 29, 1966, has not left the corridors of power since then.
Renowned economics professor and former Presidential candidate, Pat Utomi chooses to explain that they got into power with a huntsman mentality; a view that led them to view the coup as a triumph that they were entitled to.
Nigeria has suffered state capture since 1966 and the group of soldiers who ceased the Nigerian state that year, retain a firm grip 50 years after”, he writes in the Sahel Standard.
The culture of the class of 66 drove us, first hesitantly, then with deliberate speed into the cusp of a failing state… In my view, the class of 1966 cannot help itself. It was socialised into a view of triumph as the Hunt. The hunter mindset is kill and share
For them, the benefit of that victory was to divide and conquer with this new power that they had acquired.
The class of 1966 has never given room for any disruption or change in the power system or how it is distributed.
Save for military coups that were literally power plays between its members, any signs of disruption in the power system have been few and far between. Access to power has been so stringently restricted that a place at the federal seat is only possible on their terms.
play Renowned Economics Professor, Pat Utomi ran for the office of the President in the 2011 general elections. (Patito's Blog)

This is not to say there have been no crises of legitimacy, but where they have threatened the existing order, powers in the back seat have installed fillers or at least, influenced the election of more familiar surrogates — Shehu Shagari in 1979, Umar Musa Yar’adua in 2007 and Goodluck Jonathan in 2011.
For context, it’s been 51 years since that day in July. 
The worldview and how things work have changed vastly in that time; while each member of that class, their ideals, power blocs, policies and objectives have stayed with them, as half a century has passed by.
It is no coincidence that most of the country’s most ‘ambitious’ projects became par for the course in other countries decades ago.
In recent years, Nigeria has shown bright signs in certain fields largely thanks to the tenacity and hard work of young people. There is much expectation for the role that the young generation, particularly millennials, can play in the nation’s growth.
play The suburb of Yaba is home to startups, platforms and accelerators that have led the emergence of a technology scene that is attracting attention and support from around the world (Techpoint)

One problem, however, is that the almost ever-present nature of the class of ’66 has created a fear to speak truth to power and a generation that will rather look away in hope than fight for change.
Massive internet penetration among the youth population and the quick adoption of social media also mean that a majority of young people are simply more capable of creating hashtags on Twitter than making practical moves towards demanding greater inclusion and a say in how they are governed.
President Buhari’s health and the absence of any clear alternatives in 2019 have set the scenes for a power struggle between the familiar suspects. Such that in the past few days, various rumours, including some that feature a coup, have circulated online and offline.
Regardless of what happens in the lead up to the next presidential elections, there is an ideological void that will be filled by whoever steps up to the plate.
play Babangida, Obasanjo, Buhari; it is absurd to expect change when power has remained in the hands of a select few (Press)

As things stand, the Nigerian political scene offers very limited options. Since the ruling All Progressives Congress got out of the opposition and into power in 2015, the People's Democratic Party that it made the swap with has become all but a shell of itself, destroyed from within by power struggles, decampment, scandals and finger-pointing.
With it, other parties have faded into limited relevance. The implication that there are no alternative ideologies or beliefs that the disgruntled, dissatisfied or those with the desire to upset the existing structure can pitch their tents to.
It is clear that there are young Nigerians who can take up the mantle at various levels of government to inject much-needed stimulus, and innovation into the country’s systems and structures.
The need for them to demand control of their future and have a say in the Nigerian government is desperately obvious, now more than ever.

Buhari Health minister explains why President travelled abroad for treatment

 

Buhari Health minister explains why President travelled abroad for treatment

The minister called on Nigerians to pray for Buhari and not to make wrong insinuations about his health.

 President Muhammadu Buhari

The Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole has said that President Buhari could not be treated in Nigeria because of the bond he has with his doctors abroad.

The minister also called on Nigerians to pray for Buhari and not to make wrong insinuations about his health.
Adewole also said that there is no cause for alarm, adding that Nigerians should respect Buhari’s choice to go abroad for treatment.
According to Daily Post, he said “One thing we must realise is that health is a complex issue. There’s what we call patient-doctor relationship; there is also a bond between the patient and the doctor and these are things we can’t play with.
“I used to have patients in Ibadan and they still call me, and say ‘we will like to see you’. Then I have to say no to them because I’m no longer available and ask, ‘why can’t you see somebody else?’ But many of them are reluctant to do so. That’s the complex thing about health.
“We should give him (Buhari) that choice. What we really wish is for Mr. President to be well and hearty.
“However, this is also a complex country, so I am not too happy about some of the insinuations, because we should pray for our leaders. We should continue to pray for him. There is no cause for alarm.
“He (Buhari) came back (referring to the previous medical vacation) and told us that he was ill and that he was treated. When we have that type of leader, I think we can go to sleep.”
Recently, there have been several unconfirmed reports saying that President Buhari  is dead.

Monday 22 May 2017

Relationship Goals

Relationship Goals

 
Love is at the very core of who we are. Out of His own love, God created us in His image for love and to love. Our hearts and our minds are designed to crave relationships and to experience unity, but have we been doing it all wrong? Have we allowed the enemy to take our relationships and twist them into something God never desired for us? He wants us to feel alone, distant, distracted, and full of shame, but God’s goal for us is to experience intimacy and oneness that is pure and without shame! So how do we get it right?
In this 7-part series, Pastor Miles shares biblical principles to create healthy relationships and explain how they are all are modeled after the most perfect relationship between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. He explores what the foundations of healthy unity looks like and how you can make you

Message Recap

If you don’t hear anything else today, hear this: God loves you. He knows all of your issues, your secrets, your past, and your problems, and He still loves you beyond measure - and He badly wants for you to love Him in return!
God loves you. He knows all of your issues, your secrets, your past, and your problems, and He still loves you beyond measure - and He badly wants for you to love Him in return!
So how can you perfect your love of God? Practice!
We learned last week that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have the perfect relationship and are the model for perfect love; they pursue God’s purpose together and glorify each other. So whenever we think or talk about love, we must refer to what God says about love, not our own versions of love that may bring pain to us or others. 
God is love. 1 John 4:8 
Love is obedience to God. 1 John 5:3
Love is based on truth, not a feeling. 2 John 6

1. Love is perfected over time by God’s loving hand.1 John 2:5

Our brains are comprised of two hemispheres. Among many other functions, the right brain controls our emotions, while the left brain is involved in decision-making and problem-solving. While a child may be afraid of a playground slide at first sight (right brain), once he has had a few safe experiences on the slide, he understands the slide is fun and can make a decision to approach it boldly (left brain), despite the earlier emotions he experienced.
Similarly, our emotions may initially stop us from obeying God, and if we never take the steps to do boldly as He asks, we stay stuck in obedience to our own feelings. For example, we may not apologize after an argument because we believe the other person is at fault and we feel injured. But by practicing obedience in small things little by little, such as apologizing for our own actions even when we feel wronged, we can learn that our emotions need not control everything we do and that obeying God is fruitful, powerful, and more important than obeying our own desires. We can increase our faith and bring our ability to be obedient into better completion and maturity.
Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, “I know Him,” and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. 1 John 2:3-6
God never lets us down, so we must learn to trust Him by saying “yes,” even when we feel like saying, “no!”
God didn’t empower us with the Holy Spirit so that we could please ourselves or love our own friends. We don’t need supernatural power to do what we would normally do! He’s not into “cruise control” living; He wants to bring us out of our comfort zones and for us to live out our faith and love by being obedient. Obedience to Him is really the only proof we can give that we truly love Him!

2. Love requires a renewed mind. 2 Corinthians 10:4-6

God will sometimes tell you to do things that your mind doesn’t want to do. It doesn’t always make sense to us to serve, give, pray, sacrifice, be humble, or confront others in love, but when our minds say “no,” we must have the ability to override and decide to obey God above ourselves. We can quote Scripture all we want, but if we are not living it, then we are just Pharisees!
For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, and being ready to punish all disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled. 2 Corinthians 10:4-6
Though not everything our culture practices is wrong, there are world views, arguments, and politically-correct practices around us that are against the Word of God. This is why, whatever we read, discuss, or ponder with our minds, we must bring every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ. We must decide if we are going to obey God - or our impulses, our culture, or our friends. This is where the rubber meets the road. 

3. Love must be received before it can be given. 1 John 4:19

You have a natural ability to love, but God wants to give you His supernatural love.
The Bible says that God loved you so much that He sent His only Son to give His life that you might be saved (John 3:16). Jesus did this willingly because of supernatural love. The Bible also says that if you believe and confess that Jesus is the Christ, then you will be saved (Romans 10:9). The Holy Spirit then comes to live in your heart and pours of the love of God into your heart (Romans 5:5).
When the supernatural love of God is poured into your heart, you have a level and intensity of love for people that is way beyond your natural ability. You can even forgive people you wouldn’t normally forgive, just as Jesus forgave His persecutors even while dying on the cross (Luke 23:34).
Though loving by obedience doesn’t always feel good or comfortable, God can empower you to love in any situation. Despite feelings of fear, discouragement, anger, resentment, etc., by practicing daily obedience to God, you can grow in maturity and grow in your ability to love and obey God day by day by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Pastor Miles challenged us to a discipleship exercise this week: write down 5-10 things that you know God wants you to do in your daily life that you are not currently doing. As a start, choose one thing off that list and commit to practicing obedience in that area every day - and see what happens!

Knowing God Quotes

Knowing God Quotes
“Wait on the Lord" is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“Guidance, like all God's acts of blessing under the covenant of grace, is a sovereign act. Not merely does God will to guide us in the sense of showing us his way, that we may tread it; he wills also to guide us in the more fundamental sense of ensuring that, whatever happens, whatever mistakes we may make, we shall come safely home. Slippings and strayings there will be, no doubt, but the everlasting arms are beneath us; we shall be caught, rescued, restored. This is God's promise; this is how good he is.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing this is simple but demanding. It is that we turn each Truth that we learn about God into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“Nor is it the spirit of those Christians - alas, they are many - whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves.
The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor - spending and being spent - to enrich their fellowmen, giving time, trouble, care and concern to do good to others - and not just their own friends - in whatever way there seems need.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“Knowing about God is crucially important for the living of our lives. As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesmen to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it .The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfold, as it were , with no sense of direction, and no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your life and lose your soul.”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God
“What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God?”
― J.I. Packer, Knowing God

This Day in HIstory

1843

Great Emigration departs for Oregon

A massive wagon train, made up of 1,000 settlers and 1,000 head of cattle, sets off down the Oregon Trail from Independence, Missouri. Known as the “Great Emigration,” the expedition came two years after the first modest party of settlers made the long, overland journey to Oregon.
After leaving Independence, the giant wagon train followed the Sante Fe Trail for some 40 miles and then turned northwest to the Platte River, which it followed along its northern route to Fort Laramie, Wyoming. From there, it traveled on to the Rocky Mountains, which it passed through by way of the broad, level South Pass that led to the basin of the Colorado River. The travelers then went southwest to Fort Bridger, northwest across a divide to Fort Hall on the Snake River, and on to Fort Boise, where they gained supplies for the difficult journey over the Blue Mountains and into Oregon. The Great Emigration finally arrived in October, completing the 2,000-mile journey from Independence in five months.
In the next year, four more wagon trains made the journey, and in 1845 the number of emigrants who used the Oregon Trail exceeded 3,000. Travel along the trail gradually declined with the advent of the railroads, and the route was finally abandoned in the 1870s.

Proverbs and Sayings

Proverbs and Sayings

May you find great value in these inspirational Proverbs and Sayings from my large datebase of inspiring quotes and sayings.

Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
He who takes medicine and neglects his diet
wastes the skill of his doctors.
- Chinese Proverb
If you are patient in one moment of anger,
you will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
- Chinese Proverb
A bird does not sing because it has an answer.
It sings because it has a song.
- Chinese Proverb
One can pay back the loan of gold,
but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
- Malayan Proverb
Not everything that casts a long shadow is to be feared.
- Swedish Proverb
Kindness is better than piety.
- Yiddish Proverb
I wept because I had no shoes
until I met a man who had no feet.
- old Persian Proverb
Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.
- Chinese proverb
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
we borrow it from our children.
- Native American Proverb
If I keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come.
- Chinese proverb
Comparisons are odious.
- old English Proverb
If the problem can be solved,
there is no use worrying about it.
If it can't be solved,
worrying will do no good.
- Tibetan proverb
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
- Yiddish Proverb
Seize the day (Carpe Diem)
- ancient Roman proverb
Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Proverb
Treat the earth well,
It was not given to you by your parents,
It was loaned to you by your children.
- Native American Proverb
Confidence is half of victory.
- Yiddish Proverb
It is darkest just before the dawn.
- Proverb
That which you hate to be done to you,
do not do to another.
- Ancient Egyptian Proverb
Carpe Diem (Seize the day)
- Latin Proverb
Everyone should carefully observe
which way his heart draws him,
and then choose that way with all his strength.
- Hasidic Proverb
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
Better late than never.
- Proverb
Strike while the iron is hot.
- Proverb
All's well that ends well.
- Proverb (and title of a Shakespeare play)
Don't ask questions about fairy tales.
- Yiddish Proverb
If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
- Proverb
People will, in a great degree,
and not without reason,
form their opinion of you upon
that which they have of your friends;
and there is a Spanish proverb
which says very justly,
"Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Lord Chesterfield
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not;
nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not;
unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not;
the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
- Calvin Coolidge
Life without a friend is like death without a witness.
- Spanish proverb
Many hands make light work.
- Proverb
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day,
teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
- American Indian Proverb
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
Anger is often more hurtful than the injury that caused it.
- English Proverb
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
Every cloud has a silver lining.
- Proverb
Maybe So, Maybe Not.
- Ancient Taoist Proverb
It is better to be in chains with friends,
than to be in a garden with strangers.
- Persian Proverb
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
Listen to all, plucking a feather
from every passing goose,
but, follow no one absolutely.
- Chinese Proverb
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
- Buddhist proverb
Behind an able man there are always other able men.
- Chinese proverb
Wherever you go, there you are.
- Traditional Zen Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
- Arabian Proverb
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
- Latin Proverb
Actions speak louder than words.
- Proverb
Time cures all things.
- Proverb
A closed mind is like a closed book;
just a block of wood.
- Chinese proverb
March to the beat of your own drum.
- Proverb
The best mirror is an old friend.
- Proverb
Habits are cobwebs at first, cables at last.
- Chinese proverb

Sunday 21 May 2017

JAMB Cut off Mark 2017/2018 for All Schools – Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education


JAMB Cut off Mark 2017/2018 for All Schools – Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education


Below is the JAMB Cut off Mark 2017/2018 for All Schools – Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education. You will your eligibility after checking your JAMB Result 2016.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) 2017 UTME Cut off Marks for admission into the following: Federal Universities— State Universities— Polytechnics—Colleges of Education— and Monotechnics.
The following are the 2017 Jamb UTME cut- off marks for all Nigerian Universities;
Below are the cut-off points used for last admission by all institutions we have;
Cut-off Marks for Federal Universities

JAMB Cut off Mark for Federal Universities 2017/2018

  1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi (ATBU) – 180
  2. Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria – 180
  3. Bayero University, Kano (BUK)- 180
  4. Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE) – 180
  5. Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) – 180
  6. Federal University of Technology, Minna (FUTMinna) – 180
  7. Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) – 180
  8. Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa State (FUD) – 180
  9. Federal University, Dutsin-Ma, Katsina (FUDutsinma) – 180
  10. Federal University, Kashere, Gombe State(FUKashere) – 180
  11. 11.Federal University, Lafia, Nasarawa State (FULafia)- 180
  12. Federal University, Lokoja, Kogi State (FULokoja) – 180
  13. Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ebonyi State (FUNAI)- 180
  1. Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa (FUOtuoke) – 180
  2. Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, Ekiti State (FUOYE)- 180
  3. Federal University, Wukari, Taraba State (FUWukari)- 180
  4. Michael Okpara Uni. of Agric., Umudike (MOUAU)- 180
  5. Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola (MAUTECH, formerly FUTYOLA)- 180
  6. National Open University of Nigeria, Lagos (NOUN) – N/A
  7. Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), Kaduna – 180
  8. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK) – 180
  9. Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife – 200
  10. Police Academy Wudil – 180 (2016 cut-off mark confirmed)
  11. University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Gwagwalada – 180
  12. Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) – 200
  13. Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi (FUAM) – 180
  14. University of Benin (UNIBEN) – 200
  15. University of Calabar (UNICAL) – 180
  16. University of Ibadan (UI) – 200
  17. University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) – 180
  18. University of Jos (UNIJOS) – 180
  19. University of Lagos (UNILAG) – 200
  20. University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) – 180
  21. University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) – 180
  22. University of Port-Harcourt (UNIPORT) – 180
  23. University of Uyo (UNIUYO) – 180
  24. Usumanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUSOK) – 180

JAMB Cut off Mark for State Universities

  1. Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) – 180
  2. Adamawa State University Mubi (ADSU) – 180
  3. Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba (AAUA) – 180
  4. Akwa Ibom State University of Technology, Uyo (AKUTECH) – 180
  5. Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma – 180
  6. Anambra State University of Science & Technology, Uli – 180
  7. Bauchi State University, Gadau (BASUG) – 180
  8. Benue State University, Makurdi (BSUM) – 180, Medicine – 200
  9. Bukar Abba Ibrahim University, Damaturu – N/A
  10. Cross River State University of Science & Technology, Calabar (CRUTECH)- 180
  11. Delta State University Abraka (DELSU) – 180
  12. Ebonyi State University (EBSU), Abakaliki – 180
  13. Ekiti State University (EKSU) – 180
  14. Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu – 180
  15. Gombe State Univeristy (GSU), Gombe – 180
  16. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL) – 180 & above for Sciences, Agriculture, Languages, Education & Arts; 190 & above for Management and Social Science Courses
  17. Ignatius Ajuru University of Education (IAUE), Rumuoumeni – 180
  18. Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri – 180
  19. Kaduna State University (KASU), Kaduna – 180
  20. Kano University of Science & Technology (KUST), Wudil – 180
  21. Kebbi State University, Kebbi (KSUSTA)- 180
  22. Kogi State University (KSU), Anyigba – 180
  23. Kwara State University (KWASU), Ilorin – 180
  24. Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso – 180
  25. Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, Lagos – 180
  26. Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK) – 180
  27. Niger Delta Unversity (NDU), Yenagoa – 180
  28. Northwest University (NU), Kano – 180
  29. Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye – 180
  30. Ondo State University of Science & Technology, Okitipupa – 180
  31. Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Oshogbo – 180
  32. Plateau State University, Bokkos (PLASU) – 180
  33. Rivers State University of Science & Technology (RSUST) – 180
  34. Sokoto State University, Sokoto (SSU) – 180
  35. Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijebu-Ode (TASUED) – 180
  36. Taraba State University, Jalingo (TSU) – 180
  37. Technical University, Ibadan – 180
  38. Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina (UMYU) – 180

JAMB Cut off Marks for Federal Polytechnics in Nigeria

Air Force Institute of Technology Nigerian Air Force (AFIT) –  N/A
Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Ebonyi State (AKANUPOLY) – 150
Nigeria Army School of Military Engineering – N/A
Auchi Polytechnic (AUCHIPOLY) – between 150, 160 and 180 depending on course
Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Bida – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Damaturu – N/A
Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Idah – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Mubi – TBA
Federal Polytechnic, Namoda – TBA
Federal Polytechnic, Nassarawa – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Nekede – 150
Federal Polytechnic Offa – 150
Federal Polytechnic, Oko – 150
Federal School of Dental Technology and Therapy, Enugu – 150
Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna – 150
Hussaini Adamu Federal Polytechnic – TBA
Nigeria Army School of Military Engineering – TBA
Waziri Umaru Fed. Polytechnic Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi  – TBA
Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) – 150 for ND, 180 for UNN Degree

JAMB Cut off Mark for State Polytechnics Admission

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Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic – 150
Abia State Polytechnic – 150
Adamawa State Polytechnic – 150
Abdul-Gusau Polytechnic, Talata-Mafara – TBA
Akwa-Ibom State Polytechnic – 150
Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic – 150
Akwa Ibom State College of Arts and Science Nung, Ukim – 150
Benue State Polytechnic – 150
College of Administrative and Business Studies, Potiskum – 150
Enugu Polytechnic – 150
GATEWAY Polytechnic, Igbesa – 150
Rufus Giwa Polytechnic – 150
The Polytechnic, Ibadan – 150
Institute of Management and Technology Enugu – 150
Imo State Polytechnic, Umuagwo – 150
Jigawa State Polytechnic – 150
Kano State Polytechnic – 150
Hassan Usman Katsina Polytechnic – 150
Kogi State Polytechnic – 150
Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin – 150
Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu – 150
Moshood Abiola Polytechnic – 150
Nasarawa State Polytechnic – 150
Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic – 150
Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku – 150
Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe – 150
Osun State Polytechnic, Iree – 150
Osun State College of Technology, Esa-Oke – 150
Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro – 150
Plateau State Polytechnic, Barkin-Ladi – 150
Polytechnic of Sokoto – 150
Ramat Polytechnic – 150
Rivers State College of Arts and Science – 150
Rivers State Polytechnic – 150
Gateway Polytechnic Saapade – 150
Edo State Institute of Technology and Management, Usen – 150
Niger State Poly, Zungeru, Niger State – 150
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Catchment  Area – 45%
Educationally less developed states (ELDS) – 20%
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Twenty-three states of the federation have been identified as Educationally less developed states (ELDS). These states are Adamawa, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Ebonyi, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Kastina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe and Zamfara,
Candidates from these states are given special consideration for admission into Federal Higher Higher Institutions. Twenty percent (20%) of available admision space is reserved for such eligible candidates.
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In Dependence Summary

In Dependence Summary

Here is the summary of In Dependence Novel.
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Chapter 1

Tayo is the first Nigeria to receive a scholarship to study at Balliol College, Oxford. He visits his relatives in the village of Ibadan before travelling the next day to uncle kayode’s house, another relative in Lagos.
On the day he sets to sail, his parents, headmaster, some of his teachers and other Lagos-based relatives stands at the Lagos port to bid him goodbye.

Chapter 2

Tayo describes his journey through the seas and the warm reception he gets at England in a letter to his father. He mentions his new friends at the college and explains in details his perception of things in his new environment.
His father replies promptly, giving him precise report on the state of affairs in the family and the country.

Chapter 3

Mr. and Mrs. Barker, Tayo’s older friends invites Tayo and Africans for a drink party in their home. There he formally meet Christine Arinze with whom he develops a casual relationship.

Chapter 4

Vanessa attends a party with her friends. There, she meets Charlie and Mehul. She gets drunk and wakes up the next morning with a splitting headache. Vanessa takes up her pen to write an article for the school magazine but changes her mind to write to her friend Jane instead.

Chapter 5

In attendance for the West Africa Society meeting is Tayo, his friends and other college students. After the meeting, he introduce himself to Vanessa Richardson who is also in attendance.
Inspite of being a trifle jealous of Tayo and Vanessa’s chit, Christine invites him over to her place. She tells him about how she is struggling to maintain her academic excellence amongst other things. He console her and assures her that she will excel like she’s always done.

Chapter 6

Tayo and Vanessa goes for a walk in the direction of the meadows. They talk on various issues ranging from Malcolm X’s visit to oxford to Tayo’s father’s duties during colonial admission as well as Vanessa’s father and grandfather’s involvement in colonial services.
They outrun each other to a country pub where they bought drinks. They leave early because two men spill their drinks and Vanessa declines Tayo’s offer of another one.

Chapter 7

Vanessa goes back home for the Christmas holiday. She receive a not so warm welcome from her family as the atmosphere between her parents is strangely cold. At dinner, she has a misunderstanding with her father about his inviting apartheid friend to the Christmas party her African friends will also attend.

Chapter 8

Tayo arrives Aberleigh, Vanessa’s home in London for the Christmas party. Aside from being mistaken for a servant by one of mr. Richardson’s friend, everything else goes smoothly. awajis.com
Vanessa visit Tayo in the room he is spending the night in. They talk briefly on the demeanor of her parents and Tayo discuss his mother at Vanessa’s prompting.

Chapter 9

Tayo and Vanessa spend everyday of the week together and on Friday, she bring him daffodils to brighten up his room. Tayo shares one of his family photograph with Vanessa and the latter makes assessment of each member herself.
Vanessa on the other hand shares her worries about being on African correspondent considering her British lineage. Tayo reassures her that Africa needs good journalist; British or African can then pull her close for a dance.

Chapter 10

Tayo and Vanessa spends Easter in Paris’ with Simon and Nima. Tayo gets his first writing journal from Vanessa where he documents their stay in Paris from the first day. There, they live the Bohemian life – all four of them. A day before the completion of their holiday, Tayo gets a telegram that Christine is dead. While Tayo grieves for her, he also blames himself for not being sensitive enough to her needs as a friend.

Chapter 11

Vanessa and her family visits France to the Bastille holiday. Jane, Uncle Anthony, Mr and Mrs. Murdoch joins them in France. They engage in conflicting talks considering Uncle Anthony and Mr. Richardson’s ever opposing views. Later that night, Jane confess to sleeping with Uncle Tony on their way home from the train station and Venessa also tells Jane about her relationship with Tayo.

Chapter 12

Vanessa writes to Tayo describing the weather in France and expresses her opinion on the margery Perham’s review he is working on. Tayo replies and fondly relates his experience so far in Bradford with his cousine Tunde where those who aren’t on scholarship like him have to work long hours to make end meet.

Chapter 13

At Tunde’s house in Brandford, London. Tunde and Yusuf decides to hold a party in honour of Gambia’s independence. Yusuf and Tayo discuss the marriageability of either British or African women. The party is in full swing when Tayo finds himself pressing a lady to the wall. Suddenly he takes a punch to his jaw and a fight ensures.
A policeman arrives and takes them to the station for questioning.

Chapter 14

Tayo decides against telling Vanessa the truth about his chpped tooth which he gets as a result of the fight in Bradford. He attends Yusuf’s wedding with Joy, where Vanessa later joins him. On their way back, Vanessa accuses Tayo of lying about his relationship with the late Christone. Tayo tries to cajole her from her outburst but Vanessa wouldn’t have none of it, so he leaves her in the carriage.

Chapter 15

After their fight, Vanessa suggests they spend Christmas apart which Tayo promptly agrees to. He sets himself on a strict schedule and manages to survive alone until New Years Eve when he decides to make chicken stew. Vanessa walks in during his lousy attempt at cooking. They eventually settle their differences and spend the rest of the holiday together.

Chapter 16

The New Year brings Tayo’s uncle, Kayode to England. Vanessa gets to meet one of his family members and they get on so well. They discuss various topics ranging from Tayo’s sporting prowess to Annais Nin, a writer of erotica. Vanessa concludes that she’ll love to meet the rest of Tayo’s family with Uncle as loving as that.

Chapter 17

With a first-class degree and a graduate scholarship, Tayo gets a chance to speak at Bellamy Boy’s School where Mr. Richardson works as a headmaster. His lecture is solely on Nigeria and it makes a big hit in the school.
Mr. Richardson invites Tayo to his office after his lecture and tells him on clear terms his views on Tayo’s relationship with his daughter. Tayo returns to college sullen and Vanessa asks him what the matter is. He tells her father is not in support of their relationship to which Vanessa asks him to fight for them if he truely loves her.

Chapter 18

Tayo is back in Ibadan, Nigeria due to his father’s critical illness. He tries unsuccessfully to write to Vanessa due to his incessant pleading for more details of Englad. While ruminating on what to tell Vanessa in his letter, Tayo is called outside his room to hear the news of unsuccessful coup to kill Ironsi.
This leads to unrest in some parts of the country but Tayo reassures the people, telling them not to panic.

Chapter 19

Tayo sends Vanessa a letter after a long while apologizing for his long silence. He attributes it to his father’s second heart attach, the coup d’ etat and the civil war.
Vanessa leaves for Lagos after her exams, ignoring Tayo’s telegram telling her not to visit yet.
After their loving reunion and Vanessa getting familiarized with the Lagos, Tayo tells Vanessa another woman is carrying his child. Vanessa, devastated, leaves.

Chapter 20

1970 at Dakar, Semegal, Vanessa now works as a correspondent for Reuters. She makes friend with Salamatou a Senegalese who braids her hair and teaches her the local language, Wolof.
Salamatou asks her about her love life. She touches briefly on Tayo, explaining to her that she’s since move on.

Chapter 21

In 1984, Tayo is a husband to Miriam and a father to Kemi. He is also an accomplished writer and a professor. One Sunday a month, they have lunch with friends at Yelwa club. There, they discuss various issues concerning the country and universities. After Lunch, Yusuf advises Tayo to limit the way he criticizes the government and Tayo tells him there’s nothing to worry about.

Chapter 22

Tayo recalls how nhe ends up with Marriam and Flips through Vanessa’s diary that he keeps in his drawer. Kemi, his daughter catches him unawares and chides him that he works too hard. Eventually, father tells daughter a story and they are joined by Mariam before they all go to bed.

 Chapter 23

For the summer holiday, Tayo and his family decides to spend three weeks, Uncle Kayode’s in Lagos his mother and other relatives in Ibadan. Despite Miriam’s objection, Tayo visits an old man who serves Lord Lugard during his reign in Nigeria, instead of visting his mother in Ibadan.
On his return, he learns that his mother dies in a fatal accident while coming to Lagos to visit him and his family.

Chapter 24

Six months after the death of Tayo’s mother, the coup to overthrow the democratic rulers by the millitary takes place successfully. The people’s optimism quickly dies out when the millitary administration proves to be the as corrupt as the preceding rulers and this leads to lots of unrest and protests. awajis.com/jamb
Admist the unrest, Miriam advises that they leaves Nigeria for England but Tayo objects claiming his loyalty to his country and wouldn’t let him.

Chapter 25

In 1990, Tayo’s hopes for improved educational system is dashed when a foundation that promises to help provides only second-hand books and old software programmes that can’t be used due to lack of computers. Miriam and Kemi leave for England the previous year.

Chapter 26

In 1994, Tayo on his way back from his office meets soldiers who has mount up road blocks in order to inspect citizens or collect bribes. Tayo is surprised they do not ask him for money but instead they take him to the barracks for questioning. He is severely beaten and ask to stop his critical writing against the government.

 Chapter 27

Tayo meets vanessa for the first time after their break up, during his tour of England while promoting his new book on Lord Lugard. After the seminar, they both catch up on each other’s lives. At the end of the evening, Tayo asks if he would kiss her but she politely declines, saying she would miss her train.

 Chapter 28

Vanessa sits at Broadwell Park reminiscing on her meeting with Tayo during his book tour. She revisit the past and dwells mostly on how she finds herself marrying Edward Barker, Tayo’s friend in Oxford. Later that evening, Vanessa receives Mandelo’s ‘Long walk To Freedom’ as a wedding present from her husband.

 Chapter 29

Tayo writes to Vanessa where he expresses himself freely like the old times. He shares his opinion on the role of artists in his letter. Vanessa earnestly implores him in her reply to be careful in his fall prey to the hands of military rulers. Tayo replies to her complaints about her failures as a mother by reasuring her she is a good mum and also tells her about his imperfections as a father and a husband.

Chapter 30

Vanessa drives Suleiman to the airport where he leaves for Senegal, his home country. Vanessa is heartbroken with the way they part and worries about him constantly. She bares her heart in a letter to Tayo, expressing her sadness and longing for what could have being. Eventually, she decided not to send it.

Chapter 31

Vanessa visits her father, Mr. Richardson, who is now old and lives in the Carrington Home for the Elderly. With her father is murdoch and Mrs. Halliday. After the brief visit, she buys a fitting skirt in preparation to meet Tayo at the airport the next day. Unfortunately, Tayo is not on the list of those on the expected plane.

Chapter 32

On Tayo’s way to the airport, his plan to visit Englad for a long while fails as he is involved in a ghasly accident orchestrated by the Nigerian military.

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Lawrence of Arabia dies

Lawrence of Arabia dies

1935

T.E. Lawrence, known to the world as Lawrence of Arabia, dies as a retired Royal Air Force mechanic living under an assumed name. The legendary war hero, author, and archaeological scholar succumbed to injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident six days before.
Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in Tremadoc, Wales, in 1888. In 1896, his family moved to Oxford. Lawrence studied architecture and archaeology, for which he made a trip to Ottoman (Turkish)-controlled Syria and Palestine in 1909. In 1911, he won a fellowship to join an expedition excavating an ancient Hittite settlement on the Euphrates River. He worked there for three years and in his free time traveled and learned Arabic. In 1914, he explored the Sinai, near the frontier of Ottoman-controlled Arabia and British-controlled Egypt. The maps Lawrence and his associates made had immediate strategic value upon the outbreak of war between Britain and the Ottoman Empire in October 1914.
Lawrence enlisted in the war and because of his expertise in Arab affairs was assigned to Cairo as an intelligence officer. He spent more than a year in Egypt, processing intelligence information and in 1916 accompanied a British diplomat to Arabia, where Hussein ibn Ali, the emir of Mecca, had proclaimed a revolt against Turkish rule. Lawrence convinced his superiors to aid Hussein’s rebellion, and he was sent to join the Arabian army of Hussein’s son Faisal as a liaison officer.
Under Lawrence’s guidance, the Arabians launched an effective guerrilla war against the Turkish lines. He proved a gifted military strategist and was greatly admired by the Bedouin people of Arabia. In July 1917, Arabian forces captured Aqaba near the Sinai and joined the British march on Jerusalem. Lawrence was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. In November, he was captured by the Turks while reconnoitering behind enemy lines in Arab dress and was tortured and sexually abused before escaping. He rejoined his army, which slowly worked its way north to Damascus, which fell in October 1918.
Arabia was liberated, but Lawrence’s hope that the peninsula would be united as a single nation was dashed when Arabian factionalism came to the fore after Damascus. Lawrence, exhausted and disillusioned, left for England. Feeling that Britain had exacerbated the rivalries between the Arabian groups, he appeared before King George V and politely refused the medals offered to him.
After the war, he lobbied hard for independence for Arab countries and appeared at the Paris peace conference in Arab robes. He became something of a legendary figure in his own lifetime, and in 1922 he gave up higher-paying appointments to enlist in the Royal Air Force (RAF) under an assumed name, John Hume Ross. He had just completed writing his monumental war memoir, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and he hoped to escape his fame and acquire material for a new book. Found out by the press, he was discharged, but in 1923 he managed to enlist as a private in the Royal Tanks Corps under another assumed name, T.E. Shaw, a reference to his friend, Irish writer George Bernard Shaw. In 1925, Lawrence rejoined the RAF and two years later legally changed his last name to Shaw.
In 1927, an abridged version of his memoir was published and generated tremendous publicity, but the press was unable to locate Lawrence (he was posted to a base in India). In 1929, he returned to England and spent the next six years writing and working as an RAF mechanic. In 1932, his English translation of Homer’s Odyssey was published under the name of T.E. Shaw. The Mint, a fictionalized account of Royal Air Force recruit training, was not published until 1955 because of its explicitness.
In February 1935, Lawrence was discharged from the RAF and returned to his simple cottage at Clouds Hill, Dorset. On May 13, he was critically injured while driving his motorcycle through the Dorset countryside. He had swerved to avoid two boys on bicycles. On May 19, he died at the hospital of his former RAF camp. All of Britain mourned his passing.

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