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I was a Pastor, I built a church and won souls for God while in prison - Obasanjo

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed how God made him build a church during his incarceration at Yola Prison and later won the souls of several inmates including a notorious robber/murderer who later became a pastor with Baptist church.
Speaking at the Shepherdhill Baptist Church in Lagos, last Sunday, during a Thanksgiving Service to mark his 80th birthday, Obasanjo called on Nigerians to work for God no matter the circumstances they find themselves.
“One, God made me to build a church,” Mr. Obasanjo said. “It’s very unusual, I asked the authorities for land, they were reluctant, but eventually they gave me land and immediately we started getting donations.
“It was started before I left Yola. Wherever you are, you can still be useful to the work of God.”
Obasanjo said he also got approval from prison authorities to farm while in detention and he cultivated “enough beans to feed all the inmates and warders.”
When he was transferred to the Kirikiri Prison in Lagos, Mr. Obasanjo said he became the prison pastor and won several souls for God.
"There was a boy whom they had introduced to me, his nickname was Baba Ali,” the former president said.
“Baba Ali was the head of the armed robbers in the North. And if you were an armed robber and you came to prison, you must first of all go and pay homage to him. If you were going out, you must go to him and ask for instruction on what to do next.
“So I called Baba Ali one day and said, ‘You are not coming to fellowship, I want you to be coming to the fellowship.’ And he said, ‘Baba, don’t worry me, don’t worry me at all because God can never forgive me. I have killed so many people in my life, I have drunk the blood of so many people, I have eaten the flesh of so many people and God will never forgive me, so don’t waste your time about me.'”
Mr. Obasanjo said he left Baba Ali for a while, and then returned later to continue his evangelism.
“I went back and said, ‘Baba Ali, you know all you said that you are a murderer, whether you killed only one person or a thousand people, you are a murderer; but you have forgotten that Moses was a murderer but God used him to bring the people of Israel out of Egypt?
“David was a murderer but God called him a man after my heart. By the time I was leaving the prison, I told Baba Ali that if he was able to make it and he would like to go to Bible school, I would send him to Bible school.”
Baba Ali was released from prison two years after Mr. Obasanjo, the former president said, by which time he had been elected Nigeria’s president.
“It took him two years to get through to me, when he got to me, I reminded him of our agreement and he said he was ready to go to the Bible school.
“So I sent him to the seminary, Baba Ali spent two years in the seminary. Today, he is a pastor of a Baptist Church. What is more? Baba Ali’s junior brother took after him and has also become a pastor".

THE 'INCONSEQUENTIAL' 22 MONTHS IN OFFICE

Hmmmm! One hungry youth with doubtful origin, out of his miscreancy and nincompoopery, has requested me to stop airing my views on matters concerning my state and community. I have no choice but to pardon his idiocy. I cannot rightly be angry with a mad man because he's mad. It's his fate. The truth is that I do not write to please anybody but to state the truth simpliciter. If my writing makes a person sad, that's even better because it could have the positive potentiality of spurring him to action - to do good, not to engage in my vain pursuit, ALTHOUGH I DO NOT CARE EITHER.

Some people expect me to wink when I should talk or tell a non-performer, as somebody did, that he "has vindicated and made himself distinguished in the area of human infrastructural development." Rubbish! I'm no idiot to make such arrantly stupid statement. Only favour seekers, who trust in men rather than God, could say so. Except you tell an ugly person that he's ugly, he'll come out in the next (assumed) world looking worse than the worst monster. No matter how close a person is to me, I'll not waste time in making my mind known if he or she is non-performing or non-performed in office.
Ok, now I go to the consequentiality or otherwise of 22 months in office. Buhari and all the state governors are 22 months in office today. I've been severally told in times past that my townsman who was governor of oil-rich Abia State left the state and his community far worse than he met them (the case with Buhari today) because 22 months in office are inconsequential and give the occupier of the office no time to perform. Hmmmm! Na so?
While the present Ebonyi governor, Engineer Dave Umahi, was being inaugurated on 29th May, 2015, I decided to keep tabs on his administration to determine how consequential or inconsequential 22 months in office could be, and to say something on the matter, notwithstanding that somebody had told me that I can't use Ebonyi State to make a fair assessment. Ebonyi, we all know is not an oil-producing state. Ebonyi, we all know is one of the least Federal allocation-receiving states. But I must use Ebonyi State to consider how consequential or inconsequential 22 months in office could be. I've seen and heard some things that have been done in the state to guide me. In 22 months, we have seen roads started, some completed and others ongoing. I've also seen other ongoing projects. I've also seen Street lights. I've also seen workers not only paid but also paid 13th month salaries. I'm, however, not unaware that the workers want increased pay. With Dave, I now know that we had previously been fed with lies, that 22 months cannot rightly be said to be inconsequential as a lot, indeed so much, could indeed be achieved within the period. So, I'm now much more reinforced in my conviction that my other brother, who lasted only 22 months in office as governor of Abia State, had no reason for non-performing, except to say that upon assumption of office then, he developed a hallucinating ambition to become the President of Nigeria. Just like that!
Now, let me go to another issue. Let me confess that I'm so concerned about the development of Ebonyi State. I'm interested in a fast track development of the state. The likes of one rotten Oruonye Chioma Mercy could not have talk down on the people of Ebonyi State and stupidly describe them as beggars if had always taken the issue of the development of the state serious.
I learnt that Dr Ogbonnaya Onu wants to build a skill acquisition centre in Ebonyi State. In the letter he allegedly wrote to the governor of Ebonyi State, he was, however, silent on and never requested or prayed for land allocation to be made by the government for the project. He also never said where he wants to build it. As a 'wise man' that he is, he refused to indicate where he wants to build it, because he wants to tell the rest of the state tomorrow that Governor Umahi diverted the project to his village. He has, however, told his small clique of Uburu people that the centre has been earmarked for Uburu. Assuming that he wants to build it in Uburu, why a skill acquisition centre? What about the one attracted by Hon. Darlington Okereke and built around the Ebotrans junction in Uburu? What has happened or is going to happen to it? Why can he not use his position in government to get it to start functioning, while he gives Uburu people something else, something better. Those who are close to our brother, Onu, should tell him to make haste while the sun shines. Enough of grandstanding. There's something called Federal might; it's not just about unfair manipulations. He's being too dull, and merely grandstanding. Onu should use his position to truly help Ndi-Ebonyi.

My husband stopped sleeping with me seven years ago.

For allegedly denying her sex for seven years, Mrs. Helen Otike, has approached an Igando Customary Court in Lagos, to end her 18-year-old marriage to her husband, Godwin.
The 50-year-old businesswoman told the court on Wednesday that her husband refused to make love to her all this long.
“My husband who built a duplex in Lagos abandoned me alone in his house and travelled to Abuja for greener pasture but whenever he comes home he refuse to sleep with me.
“He will enter his room and lock it from inside. I will knock severally but he will not open and after some days he will travel again.
“I have travelled to Abuja on many occasions to meet him at his office but he does not want me to know where he lives.
“I don’t know why he does not want me to have a child but he has children with other women.
“It is unfortunate, I have wasted my years with him without a child, I am 50 year-old now, where do I start from,” she said.
The petitioner also accused her husband of stealing her N500,000.
“When I flew my brother to India for kidney transplant, I kept N500,000 in my wardrobe so that I can see what to spend when I return.
“But when I came back, my husband had stolen the money and he is yet to give it to me,” she said.
She begged the court to dissolve the marriage.
However, Godwin Otike, denied stealing the woman’s N500,000, claiming that he used the money for prayers.
“When my wife took her brother abroad for kidney transplant, I took her money and used part to settle the pastors that were praying for the success of the transplant.
“I used the other part of the money for transportation to churches for prayers,” he said.
The 68-year-old training consultant said that he was told by his mother that his mother-in-law was behind his predicament.
“My mother told me before she died that my wife’s mother had hand in my downfall.
“She told me not to allow my wife to attend her burial when she died which I did,” he said.
The respondent conceded to the dissolution of the marriage that he too was also fed up with the union.
The court president, Mr. Adegboyega Omilola, adjourned the case until May 30 for judgment.
The Nation.

HOW POLITICIANS KILLED NIGERIAN ECONOMY, TRUMP REVEALS:

US Government unveils 16 Richest Politicians From Nigeria And Names Of US Banks they Stocked Public Funds They Stole.
NAME*******  BANK ***************  AMOUNT
1. Stella odua    JP Morgan chase/ New York.  $1.4 billion
2. Bakola sarki. American express/New York $1.15 billion
3. Ibrahim Geidam. Wells Fargo/ San Francisco. $1.1 billion
4. Derus ishayaku. Citi group/ New York city. $805 million
5. Godwill akpabio. Citi group/ New York city. $798 million
7. Ekwaranmadu US Bancorp/ Minnesota. $757 million
8. Shema Ally financial/ Detroit. $626 million
9. Olushegun mimiko BB&T/ North Carolina. $625 million
10. Buraji kashamu. Citi group/ new York. $513 million
11. Nelson weki. State street corporation & $510 million
12. Sule lamido. Wells Fargo/ San Francisco. $476 million
13. Fayose. Citi group/ New York $448 million
14. Ibrahim dankwanbo Bank of America. $442 million
15. Ali madu shariff. US Bancorp. $437 million
16. Ìbràhìm shekarau Ally financial. $422 million--what a shame. Sent as received.

Over to PMB and EFCC.
Forward this to as many Nigerians as possible, let Nigerians know how the wicked politicians robed us and led us to recession and hardship.

HEARTBREAKING! After Obituary Poster Of Female Airforce Personnel Shot Dead By Her Heartless Lover Came Out, See The Shocking Thing That Happened Next…

Before going through the shocking thing that happened next… Let’s pray her soul continue to rest in peace… Amen… If you are really touched by her death, kindly pay your last respect to her by typing RIP Shomzy in the comment box…

The silence is deafening!
The eloquence of the quietness is not discernible,
Is it a riddle? Nay!
Is it a dream? Nay! Alas!
It is true, true, true like a candle in the wind.
The light went out, you’ve gone with the wind.

Oh Shomzy, You Gone Too Soon..!!

Rest on soldier,
The Nigerian Armed-Forces As A Whole Miss You

#Return_If_Possible (R.I.P)

TENSION! Fulani Herdsman Rapes 70-Yr-Old Woman To Coma In Ebonyi, Boast That Government Empowered Them And This Unthinkable Happen Next {Must See}

 

COMMERCIAL activities were yesterday paralyzed in Abakaliki following a protest staged by aged women over the alleged r@pe of a 70-year- old woman to coma on gun point by a herdsman in the State.

The protesters who hail from Mgbom in Isu community, Onicha Local Government area of the state, baricaded some major business areas including Fatilami Park and Ezza road among other places.

Addressing journalists, the leader of the group, Florence Okoro alleged that herdsmen have been r@ping them and their daughters at gunpoint, adding that the herdsmen also carted away their food items that include yams, garri and other belongings.

“The herdsmen have been r@ping us and our daughters and that is why we came to protest to the government to come to our rescue because we have had enough of these inhuman treatment from them.
The government should help us because we are dying of hunger caused by these herdsmen who have destroyed our crops and other properties.

“If we cook our food, they will come inside our house and take it and eat. We are farmers and we cannot do anything.

The worst of it is that the horsemen r@pe us in front our husbands. Our culture forbids a woman from having s*x with another man.

If it happens, you cannot come out or talk in public again because you are a forbidden person. “These horsemen have defiled us and we are worth nothing in our culture.

We are calling on our governor to tell the hersemen to leave us alone and they should pack out from our land,” she lamented.

Another protester, one Mrs Veronica Chukwu added that “We don`t go to the farms again to avoid being r@ped and our farms have been destroyed.

They are boasting that they are empowered by the government to move their cows around. “The main purpose we came out to protest today is because of the r@pe of one Mrs Alice Ogbonna, a 70-year-old woman to the point that she cannot walk again with her two legs.

Apart from the r@pe, they beat her with stick on her two arms and she cannot move her body again”. she added. The governor who addressed the protesters through the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Augustine Nwankwegu said government must get to the root of the matter and urged them to maintain peace and order in the area.

“It is not a good thing for a herdsman to r@pe a woman. We have been having meetings with herdsmen and we always tell them to take it easy.

Government will now look into the activities of these people. We now have a law that will be used to judge anyone that indulges in this kind of crime,” he said.

But reacting to the development, the chief (Eze) of herdsmen in the State, Ardo Bello stated that the suspect, (names withheld) upon interrogation, denied engaging in such a heinous crime.

According to Bello, when the suspect was seen around the community, he was warned to stay away from the environment which he did.

“The community members even killed one of his cows. He is a stranger in the state. The suspect is already in the police net and has denied ever r@ping the victim contrary to speculations or claims from the community members.”

Also, the secretary of the herdsmen in the State, Alhaji Haladu said he just got to know about the incident and denied the involvement of any herdsman in such crime. “I just heard about the incident.

Not at all will a herdsman commit such crime because of how we comport ourselves in the state.
If we get the suspect, we will tell him to use the Quran to swear and if he refuses, it means he did it.
Apart from being arrested by the police, we know how we discipline our members.”

Meanwhile, the State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Jude Madu said his office was yet to be furnished on the development.

From the Office of the IDF N.G.O National Secretary and Information Manager

We wish to inform all those seeking to gain admission into the higher institution that Jamb registration has started and all interested candidates should go and get their Jamb profile at any cyber cafe before proceeding to the Jamb office for further action.
Also, We wish to notify you all that the escape charity N.G.O has initiated to completion the Jamb registration of all the scholarship awardees for the Higher institution scholarship beneficiaries and more details later.

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What Has Gov. Willy Obiano Done For The People Of Ideani? By The Ideani Information Manager.

Hearing the radio and tv giggles and telecast on the achievement of the Gov. of Anambra State on his 3years stay in office, also on the broadcast was the Soludo's view citing that you cant change a performing general in the heats of war.

Alots of technocrat and internal developer have their hands at akimbo watching to see the end and those who have professed support for the re-election of Gov. Willy Obiano has seen the government under his watch benefited, which led to the question what has Ideani benefitted?

Ideanians hate eye service and if Ideanians talk, Idemili bows yet Ideani has not benefitted from the 20million Naira saga because as the Ideani Information Manager and Sports Chairman, the information on my desk does not worth sharing and i want to cease this opportunity employ the government to look into the reason why ideani is still backward yet contributing their quota on the development of the state.

The President General and Col. A.C Mezue believed on the governor but wonders if the governor ever remembered that Ideani exist irrespective of our contribution to the National Building.

Our next episode of a post on the above topic shall highlight with facts that the government has not helped Ideani Community.

Thanks from the Ideani Information Manager
Engr. Chidiebere Okfor
08034685084.

SO SAD! Father Of The Air Force Lady Killed By Lover Cries Out – I Want My Daughter’s Killer To Pay With His Life Or Else… {Must Read}

Family members of slain airwoman, Solape Oladipupo, share their grief with Punchng

If walls could talk, the ones in the family home of murdered airwoman, Solape Oladipupo, in the Badagry Township area of Lagos State, would be screaming the deceased’s name.

Not because the 21-year-old was once in the choir at her home church, but because her imprints were markedly on the walls of the small room she had shared with her sisters. The room had a picture of her smiling in two portraits, with bright lemon green and purple paint adorning the walls.

The young airwoman, fondly called Shomzy Shomzy by friends and admirers, had painted the room in some of her favourite colours sometimes in 2016 before she joined the Nigerian Air Force, and she bought a table fan for her sister.

“Solape was a beautiful and kind person. She was determined to make the best of her life and for others. She was always looking out for her family and friends,” one of her elder sisters, Kehinde, told SUNDAY PUNCH on Thursday night.

Sadly, last Sunday morning, thousand of miles away from her family home in Badagry; the young lady had no one to watch her back when her alleged boyfriend, a fellow non-commissioned NAF officer, identified as Kalu BA, shot her dead.

Kalu was alleged to have pulled the trigger at her in a fit of devilish rage and jealousy, after he accused Oladipupo of double dating at the Air Force Base in Makurdi, Benue State.

“Most idiots would insult me for this, but if they were in my shoes they would do the same,” wrote the killer boyfriend in a purported suicide note he had written. He described himself as a ‘crazy lover who died for heartbreak.’

By a spiteful stroke of fate, Kalu failed in taking his own life, but succeeded in killing Oladipupo and, in the process, a thousand dreams.

In the small room that served as a sitting room – with no chairs – and a bedroom, Kehinde spoke of her younger sister’s big dreams.

Kehinde said, “In 2014, before Solape decided to join the Air Force, she had applied to join the Nigerian Navy and Army, but it wasn’t successful. During the screening process for the Navy at Apapa, she couldn’t get an accommodation, so she slept under a trailer for about a week. She came back home with several mosquito bites and fell sick afterwards. That was how determined she was.

“My mother fainted twice when she heard that Solape had been killed. The man that killed her hadn’t paid her pride price; he didn’t know anyone in her family. She had gone through a lot to get to where she was. She was not supposed to die like that; this was her time to enjoy,” her distraught sister said.

She also spoke of Oladipupo’s determination to join the Air Force following an unexpected incident.

Kehinde narrated, “We were together when we saw a lady on the way who was dressed in a way that exposed her body and Solape made a comment about it, which she heard. Later, the lady came to our house with about five or six guys and they beat us up, until a soldier came to our rescue. From that day, she told me she wanted to join the military, because she hated cheating and injustice.

“I was very proud of her when I first saw her with the Air Force uniform when she came home last June/July. I rushed to hug her tight, despite that I was heavily preg.nant. She said she would train my elder sister’s children and our last two siblings and ensure they become lawyers and doctors. She had a big heart. I’m very sad that my younger sister also did not see my new-born baby,” Kehinde said, bursting into tears.

Just then, a friend of the Oladipupos walked into the house, and collapsed on the bed, holding another of the deceased’s elder sister, Jolade, tightly. “They have killed our Solape,” she screamed.

Everyone in the room, including Kehinde’s three children, then broke into tears.

“I’m based in Abeokuta. Solape was a very caring person. For two years, she accommodated me in this room. She was a friend I would never forget in life. In 2012, she helped me get a job in the filling station where she worked then. For two months, before I got the job, she fed me all through. She didn’t follow men about. She was welcoming to everyone. She hated cheating,” said her friend, who gave her name as Opeyemi Obatola.

Oladipupo was described by friends and neighbours as a goal-getter. “She was a hustler. I felt bad when I heard how she was killed. She worked in several places just because she wanted to make ends meet and help her family,” said a neighbour, Femi Ogunbiyi.

“She was gentle and hard working,” another, who gave his name as Salem, said.

At the bar in Badagry, where Oladipupo last worked as a waitress before she joined the Air Force, colleagues and friends spoke highly of her.

“She was outgoing and straightforward. She taught some of us here how to handle the business,” said Nifemi, one of the waiters at the bar.

One of the bar managers, who didn’t identify himself, said, “She was always with a smile and was very intelligent.” A few others declined to comment about her or the incident.

A university lecturer, Mr. Dawodu Abayomi, also said that before she travelled to join the Air Force, Oladipupo was hosted to a send-forth by her employers and colleagues at the bar.

“Solape was not a wayward girl; even my pastor friend was there to celebrate her. She was friendly and a likeable personality,” he said.

At the time she left to join the Air Force, Oladipupo was already a first-year student at the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Ijanikin, Lagos, where she was studying business education.

“Before her admission into AOCOED, she had been processing the Air Force application. She believed that one of them would work for her,” Jolape said.

Jolade also rubbished the killer boyfriend’s allegations that Oladipupo was double-dating. “My sister had both male and female friends alike because she was an accommodating person. But she wasn’t one to flirt around. If she was a flirt, she wouldn’t have been hustling to look for jobs,” she said.

“My daughter never had that time; she wasn’t the kind of lady that messed herself up with men. Solape was intelligent, gentle, easy-going and disciplined. She was courageous and ambitious. She was my two eyes and, with her death, they have punctured my eyes, and I’m blind,” Oladipupo’s heartbroken father, 60-year-old Tolani Oladipupo, told our correspondent.

When he heard of his daughter’s tragic death, the father said he almost committed suicide. “My children, friends and family members, who were there at the time, held me back,” he said, almost crying.

A friend to the late Oladipupo, Mr. Paul Marafa, said the deceased airwoman was jovial, hardworking and easy-going.

“There was a time I joked with the manager of the bar to increase her pay as she had always discharged her duties diligently compared to others and he laughed,” said Marafa, adding that he last saw and spoke with her in November 2016 when he visited her with a friend at the Air Force Base, Kaduna.

Marafa said he encouraged her to apply for the job online because she “was young, tall, smart and intelligent.”

“I felt that working as a waitress might affect her future. So, when she got the job, I congratulated her and wished her the best. She then told me that life wasn’t easy for her as an airperson; that it was made worse by the fact that some of her course mates and superior colleagues were pressurising her for an affair or for s*x.

I advised her to be very careful. She said she would and thanked me also for encouraging her to apply for the job. Her death is a colossal loss,” he said.

Oladipupo’s best friend, Basirat Fayemi, said she inspired her in many ways. “She was nice, open-minded and wanted the best for herself and her friends.

She loved hip-hop music; TuFace and Teckno were her favourite Nigerian artistes. She also liked football, meeting people, and loved dancing. She gave me hope. With that, I was happy and looked forward to joining too, not knowing that I won’t see her again,” Fayemi said.

The Oladipupos are still mourning the beautiful soul who provided melodious music in their lives; her dreams abruptly ended by a killer boyfriend currently in custody of authorities of the Nigerian Air Force.

In his reaction, the NAF spokesman, Group Captain Famuyiwa, said, “We know there are several offences against the state, including this one, which is murder. A board is investigating and will decide the punishment for the suspect.”

Joining the Air Force was her dream — Best friend
Oladipupo and Basirat

How long did you know Solape?

I am Basirat Fayemi, a friend to Solape. We had been friends for about five years. We met at a recruitment centre when we both wanted join the Navy.

How difficult was it for you to get enlisted into the Navy?

It was stressful. We didn’t get the job eventually. We were there for about a week. But we did our best.

What kind of person was she?

She was nice, open-minded and wanted the best for herself and her friends. She was a funny person. She inspired me in many ways and said she wanted me to wear the Air Force uniform with her.

She gave me hope. With that, I was happy and looked forward to joining too, not knowing that I won’t see her again.

When was your last conversation with her?

We spoke on the phone last Friday, two days before she was killed. She was helping my cousin to process his admission into the Air Force.

I asked for the printout because my cousin had already taken the examination and gone for the screening. She was trying to help us out. She wanted me to purchase the form also but I didn’t. That was when I asked my cousin to get the forms.

Why was she called ‘Shomzy’?

It was just a nickname, a shortened form of her name, Sola.

Did she tell you about the lover who allegedly killed her?

Yes, she did, but I didn’t know much about him.

What did she tell you about him?

I guess they had a good time at the beginning, but I don’t know what later transpired between them. The last time she talked about the guy she felt good about it then. I think it was in February. She was not someone that would double-date.

How do you feel when you heard that same guy killed her?

I felt bad and disappointed. I was sad to hear the news.

When did you hear about her death?

I heard on Sunday morning around 10am. I felt so bad. It was painful the way she died because I never expected such.

Solape was a caring friend. The last time we were together was when I went to see her at her place of work before she joined the Air Force. We spent a great time together. Sometimes, we usually went out together to the seaside for relaxation.

She was said to be hard working…

Yes she was. She worked in several places, including filling stations and a bar.

Did she tell you about her goals and dreams?

Yes she did. Joining the Nigerian Air Force was one of them.

It was her dream career. I remember when she was enlisted into the Air Force, she would say, “Basirat, I want to rise fast and also be well connected so that I can help other people from Badagry to join the Air Force.”

She was selfless and looked out for others. Also, I think she joined the force because she was surrounded by some friends that were already in there who inspired her.

I want my daughter’s killer to pay with his life — Dad Oladipupo

What is your name?

I am Tolani Oladipupo; Solape’s father. I will be 61 years old in April.

What do you do?

I am a retired bank worker. I worked with Allied Bank PLC and managed many branches until the bank was dissolved and liquidated by the military regime of the late Sanni Abacha in 1995. Since then, I have been an agriculturist.

How are you coping with your daughter’s death?

All of us in the family are really sad. My wife is in a really terrible state; she fainted when I told her on Sunday and she could not breathe for 30 minutes. She almost died.

Later, she gained consciousness. She has lost over 40 per cent of her weight since then. It is most difficult for her.

She hardly eats and takes more of liquid, tea or water once a day. When I heard about my daughter’s death, I wanted to kill myself by running into a moving trailer. It was my children and friends around that held me back from committing suicide.

They let me realise that hope was not lost. I have many children but I do not want to lose any of them. How can someone put a gun to my daughter’s neck and terminate her life? I have recovered partially and I am ready to face life. Sholape would have been 21/22. She was my sixth child.

What can you tell us about her?

Solape was intelligent, gentle, easy-going and disciplined. She liked staying in a clean environment. She usually kept the home, toilets and bathroom clean whenever she was around.

She was determined to become an air force officer, so her going there was not by mistake. She was energetic and good.

She was courageous and ambitious, right from her childhood, from the age one. Even when she started walking, I remember how she always stood up and tried to walk whenever she fell down. That was how determined she was throughout her life. We are going to miss her a lot.

Did she tell you about the guy she was dating?

Yes she did. We spoke when she visited home in December last year. She spoke about the boy that killed her; she said she was going out with him before but decided to leave him because he is violent.

I also encouraged her to cut off any relationship that would not give her peace. I don’t know how long they had been dating, but I just know that she had separated herself from him, and I supported her decision.

I had never spoken with the boy before. After we spoke about it in December, we never talked about it again. I think she had cut off the relationship with him by then.

When last did you speak with your daughter?

I spoke with her on Friday and Saturday and the incident happened on Sunday. We talked about her progress. She has twin sisters and younger ones and she said she would take good care of them.

She was hard working. She was not so financially buoyant to help the family in a big way, but whatever she had, she shared with her siblings.

How did you feel when you heard that it was the same guy who killed her?

I felt I had not done enough to protect her. But we prayed a lot for her and the other children. I was confident that the (Air Force) barracks was well secured.

Traditionally, there are some medicines that would prevent bullets from penetrating one’s body. I’m an Ijebu man and a Christian, an archdeacon.

But I regret that I didn’t do that traditional security for her. I told the commandant of the Air Force base in Makurdi when they called me about the incident that Sholape was my two eyes and, with her death, they have punctured my eyes, and I’m blind.

My heart seeks for judgment. Nigerians are calling for judgment. The guy killed her intentionally because he wrote a suicide note.

I want justice done; an eye for an eye. I think the Nigerian Air Force wants to court-martial him; they should not just court-martial him, they should terminate his life, the same way he killed my daughter.

Was she dating other people, like the killer lover alleged?

No, all he said was a lie and pretence. My daughter never had the time to move about with men. She lived with me here and we went to vigils together.

She wasn’t the kind of lady that messed herself up with men. But it is just natural for someone who is mature to have a boyfriend and husband. She was mature enough to make her decision. I was expecting her to bring a man of her choice to me whenever she decided to before this unfortunate incident.

I told her to stop dating her killer — Sister

Jolade

What is your name?

I am Jolade Oladipupo, 31, elder sister to Solape.

What do you do?

I work as a waitress.

How close were you to her?

We were very close. We lived together before she left for her course at the Nigerian Air Force. She travelled in January last year.

She returned in June/July to spend some time with us, before she returned back to her base. When she was away, we usually spoke on the telephone until she came back to Badagry, Lagos, in December, a few days after Christmas.

She went for the Air force training in January in Kaduna, then for another course in July. Then, I think she got a promotion as Air Provost and was happy about it. Since then, we have been communicating on the phone until I heard about her death.

What was your last conversation about?

We chatted on WhatsApp two days before the incident. I advised her to focus on her studies and aim higher.
She told me she would purchase another Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination form when it was out to further her education. I told her to take things easy. She told me not to worry about her too much.

Did you know about the young airman she was dating at the time?

Not really. I have never seen the guy. When she returned last December, she told me that there was this Air Force guy that was asking her out, and was already proposing marriage to her.

I advised her then not to rush into any relationship with any man, that she should focus more on her training and course.

I told her she would meet a better person in the near future that would come for her. I had never seen her uploading the guy’s picture on Facebook before until she went back to Makurdi on December 31 last year.

It was that night I saw the picture she posted on Facebook where she was with the guy in a room. An elderly married man, who knew my family, called me during the time and asked me why my sister was uploading such pictures on Facebook.

He said even if she was into a relationship, she didn’t have to expose it on Facebook. Immediately, I called my sister and told her that she should forget about dating any guy or relationship and wait for her time.

I think this it was in January. She accepted and said she was going to cut off every relationship. I think she did because since then, she only uploaded pictures of herself, and not with the guy. I felt really bad, when I heard it was the same guy that killed my sister. I wondered if she didn’t listen to my advice or she cut off the relationship with the guy and it caused her death. I was so confused.

How did you hear about the incident?

I got separate calls from two friends, one is a soldier and the other one is in the Nigerian Air Force based in Badagry.

He and my sister were course mates in the force. I didn’t know what happened then because I was busy the previous day and didn’t go online. Then, one of the other guys called me again and said I should call my sister because it seemed something had happened in their unit.

At that same time, one of my younger sisters called and was crying on the phone. They already heard the information in Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, where my parents and some of my siblings live. We are 11 children from my parents. I screamed and raised an alarm. My sister and I were very close. We were like five and six.

What kind of person was your sister?

Solape was very nice and friendly. She was a good person and faithful friend. She liked to carry people along. She could give out all her belongings to ensure that people around her were happy. Many times, she would go to the market and buy foodstuff with her money to cook meals for her family and friends – both boys and girls. I know some guys who preferred to eat in our place because they knew Solape would cook for everyone.

What were her dreams?

She said she prayed that she would be the one that would help her family and make things better for us all.

She also said she wanted to help the needy and fight for her country. She didn’t like it when people cheated others and always fought against it. Aside from that, she was a gentle person.

Also, she was hard working. She is someone I would describe as a ‘hustler.’ She worked in different places before she joined the air force. Both of us once worked as attendants in two filling stations. She didn’t like to stay idle, once she left a job; she would go out to look for another.

She liked to be independent. She worked in the bar for about a year before she joined the air force. She had been helping the family in every way she could even before then.

What is the fondest memory you have of her?

I remember when I had a motorcycle accident in 2010. Then, she was working, and learning at the same time, in a computer school in Badagry. When she heard, she immediately rushed to the Badagry orthopaedic hospital, where I was admitted. She had to go back to the computer centre to tell them that she couldn’t continue working there anymore because her sister had an accident. She left that job to take care of me. I couldn’t walk or do anything, but she was there all the time. For a year and a half, she did everything for me, including fetching water and cleaning my excreta. I can never forget that. By God’s grace, I am still recovering.

Was she dating other people, like the killer boyfriend alleged?

No, she didn’t follow men around. She had both male and female friends because she was an accommodating person. But she wasn’t one to flirt around. If she was a flirt, she wouldn’t be hustling to look for jobs here and there. She never depended on any guy or girlfriend; rather they were the ones collecting from her. It is a big lie for the guy to say she was dating other senior officers at their base. I had advised her against having any relationship before. I remember she said that in the air force regulation, one couldn’t date someone with a higher rank.

Did your parents know about the relationship?

No, my mother didn’t know about it. We were all shocked that the guy pulled a gun at her and killed her. I have never heard of such before in my life. She had not even introduced us to the guy as a friend; talk less of wanting to get married to him. I don’t know how to classify that kind of relationship.

What do you want the authorities to do about the incident?

Even the Bible says that he who kills by the sword should die by the sword. Also, there is a law in Nigeria against murder. But, I cannot speak for the government; they know the right thing to do. They should take the right action and ensure that justice is done.

Source:Punchng