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Councillors earn more than university professors, Joy Ezeilo, SAN

By Lillian Okenwa

“There are fewer and fewer teachers in classes to impart knowledge. It is obvious. We are suffering a major brain drain…The brain drain from Nigeria has had a severe impact on the country’s educational system. The lack of qualified teachers and experts has been especially detrimental to providing quality education opportunities to many citizens…”, wrote sactsng.org on its website.

It is however heartening that Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, SAN has called for a total overhaul of the country’s tertiary education system.

Although the Senior Advocate of Nigeria recently noted that the higher education sub-sector in Nigeria is riddled with challenges such as poor funding, corruption, industrial actions among others, other stakeholders insist that the entire education architecture needs an overhaul.

In a post shared on Wednesday through her X handle to commemorate the International Day for Education, Prof. Joy N. Ezeilo,SAN, Dean Emeritus Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), ex-UN Special Rapporteur on Human Trafficking and founder of WACOLTamarSARC said: “Nigeria’s education system is decaying due to government neglect. Lecturers are leaving for Western countries with better wages. Councillors in some states earn more than university professors/ lecturers. Unequal Nigeria!”

Also expressing concern over the situation, one-time, Director General of Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Dakuku Peterside said: “We must provide all forms of financial and psychological incentives to teachers. We must ringfence their benefits and emoluments in both federal and state budgets and never allow a situation where governments owe them salaries. The reward of teachers must be here “on earth and not in heaven.” We should pay them wages when due and pay them a living wage. We must review the pay of teachers on the basis of current economic realities and attract the best to the teaching profession.

“The future we want to build for our children will be worse than what we have now if we do not prioritise education.”

Chief Judge of FCT announces commencement of nominations for appointing New Judges

CJ FCT Inspecting the Guard of Honour during the new legal celebrations

On the heels of existing vacancies in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) judiciary, Chief Judge of the FCT, Hon. Justice Husseini Baba Yusuf has in a letter to the Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN) and all the heads of courts across the federation announced the beginning of the process leading to the appointment of additional 12 judges for FCT high court.

Read the letter below.

Sanwo-Olu defends self after report emerged that he blew over a billion naira at party of socialite, Aisha Achimugu in Grenada

Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has revealed that he visited Grenada, a country in the Caribbean where he met the Prime Minister, Dickon Mitchel, showing proof of the encounter.

Sanwo-Olu’s disclosure is coming hours after an online newspaper, Premium Times revealed that the governor spent six days at Grenada, partying with others at the 50th birthday bash of an Abuja based socialite, Aisha Achimugu.

The newspaper said the party was held at St George’s private Island which costs $924,000 (N924 million) to rent.

Sanwo-Olu was said to have lodged in an exotic five-year-old seven-star luxury resort located in Grand Anse beach which costs $132,000 (N132 million) per night. He was alleged to have stayed there for at least six nights, that is, expending N792 million on accommodation alone.

Editor of Point Blank news, Jackson Ude in a separate post on X, claimed the party costs the organisers $6 million (N6 billion) and alleged that Sanwo-Olu funded the bash.

But Sanwo-Olu posted on his X handle, @jidesanwoolu that he indeed visited Grenada where he met the country’s Prime Minister and also took the opportunity to attend some social events.

He said: “Last weekend in St. George’s, Grenada, I presented Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell with a miniature of the Blue Line Rail and we engaged in extensive discussions on various aspects of our bilateral relations, focusing particularly on tourism, agriculture, and other economic interests that could benefit both our regions. Prime Minister Mitchell also shared exciting plans for Grenada’s upcoming 50th-anniversary celebrations in February. It was a productive and enriching exchange, setting the stage for deeper collaboration between our regions. Additionally, I had the opportunity to attend some social events, further strengthening the ties between our two nations.”

The Niche

Why do kidnappers rage?

By Bola BOLAWOLE

Kidnappers are no longer on the prowl. They are now on a rampage. They have run riot, running rings around hapless Nigerians. The impunity with which they go about it means they know that the coast is clear for them to go about their criminal activity without fearing that there will be consequences. Once there is no chance of punishment, there is no deterrent. As it is said, where there is no law, there is no sin. It is more or less the same thing – or even worse – where there is law but the law is trampled by everyone without consequence.

In Nigeria, those who trample the law the most are those who made the law and those charged with enforcing the law. Once other criminally-minded people know this, all they need to do is compromise these sets of Nigerians by coming under their wings. So, thugs, area boys and other sundry criminals come under the wings of politicians and are assured of protection. Those who engage in financial crimes have informants and insiders in the financial institutions that give them privileged information. The whole of Nigeria has become a crime scene. Nigeria as a going concern is a criminal enterprise. You no longer know who to turn to for succor.

I listened to an interviewee who listed all those who benefit from the rising wave of crime in the country. Government officials benefit because it gives them justification to allocate huge resources that should have gone into other productive sectors into the so-called war against insecurity. No war is fought, though, and money so allocated is diverted into private pockets. We saw an example of that in the arms bazaar that took place under former President Goodluck Jonathan. Money voted for arms to fight Boko Haram was shared to politicians to fund election campaigns and such other unrelated matters.

Governors benefit from insurgency because it gives them an alibi to further raise their humongous security votes which secure nothing. Many of them draw this money on a monthly basis and go to the real estate market buying properties on a binge. Nothing is secured and no one is secure in their state. Security votes are unaccounted for; they are not audited; why this is so, I do not know. It could be because of the cloak of secrecy that is woven around security matters. But I think it is time we rend the veil and make everything open. Afterall, we cannot be left unsecured and still lose our money under the guise of security votes.

Legislators, those that some people have chosen to call legis-looters, also benefit from this racket. They seldom pass anyone’s budget unless their palms have been greased. In every budget, they have items they hide here and there that they come for after the budget is passed and money is released. Oversight function is another avenue through which lawmakers hold government officials to ransom. Like I said, it is a racket. One thief steals; another surfaces to demand his own share of the loot. They work hand-in-gloves. They operate in cahoots.

Those charged with the risky task of carrying guns and confronting the criminals also have criminals in their ranks. We can safely expect that criminals will find their way into the fighting forces. For one, that is the safest place to be as a criminal. Who will ever suspect or stop a man in uniforms for stop-and-search? They also can work as informants. They can loan out their uniforms to criminals for a fee. Their guns and ammunition also. They can turn their guns on the State that employed them and pledge their loyalty to their partners in crime.

Now, who pays more: the government or the masters of the crime world? I am sure you know salaries are peanuts here. Take-home pay takes no one home in Nigeria. You have to find ways to augment the peanuts you receive as salaries. Most times they do not even come as when due. Most times you are owed a backlog of salaries and other benefits. And you have mouths to feed. You have responsibilities you cannot shirk.

In the middle of this, you see the opulence of the rich flaunted in your face on a daily basis. You see them take good care of themselves while they neglect you. Besides, you know they, too, are criminals of the worst order. They steal billions with a stroke of pen. If all the ransom money collected by kidnappers since 1999 is put together, it will still be mere trifle compared to the billions that one Accountant-General of the Federation stole. And the man was seen the other time playing monkey games with the court. Is it that the authorities did not know the antics of this man? Of course, they do but they are members of the same clan!

I do not support kidnapping and kidnappers. I am against the booming business of kidnapping for the purpose of collecting ransoms. In fact. I am against all forms of kidnapping and all manner of criminality. But, where do we start? We must start by checking the criminality of the ruling class. It is their own criminality that gave rise to the other criminality that now threatens to sink all of us. It is their own criminality that is not allowing them to see clearly and act appropriately to deal with the criminality of the rank and file.

Virtually everyone is sucked into the ongoing criminality that has made Nigeria an unsafe place day and night. The cities are not safe, even up to Abuja, the seat of power. Homes are not safe. No longer is the home a man’s fortress as the scripture says. The roads and highways are not safe. Schools are not safe. Even military facilities are not safe. Criminality has become big business and more and more people are trooping into it. After politics and corruption, criminality is next in the order of the “businesses” that yield the highest return on investment.

Let me share a post I read a while ago and then close: “Why do kidnappers succeed in collecting ransom from their victims? Based on my job, I learnt something special this week from security agents in Mali that we went on a rescue mission together. I don’t know if the Nigerian security agencies are in collaboration with kidnappers to take ransom and share together; if not, no kidnapper can succeed in taking any ransom where security formation is effective. The story is that, I received a message from Nigeria concerning a 16-year-old girl that was trafficked to Mali for sex trade. This victim called her parents about the situation and they passed the message to me from a government agency for an urgent rescue. When I called the number that the victim used to call her parents and I asked the traffickers to send the victim to me so that she can go back to Nigeria, they refused. Later, they removed the line from their phone; now the number is out of use. I informed a security agent about the situation…

“Now, the number I used to contact the traffickers is no longer in use. I don’t know the name of the village the victim is. I sent the number that they had removed to the security agent. After two hours, they notified me the name of the village and the current new number the traffickers were using. We went on a mission without calling the new number. We arrived at the village at midnight because it was about a 15-hour journey. The second day, Information reached us about the exact location the phone number was last used before they switched off the phone. After an hour, information came again that the person was having an appointment with somebody at 11:00am. We hung around the place. When the person came around, there was a vibration from one of the security gadgets for us to know the person coming with the number. We monitored her entry to the house. We were able to rescue the victim. No call. Nothing.

“So, ransom collection in Nigeria could be between the kidnappers and security agencies. If not, no Nigerian should pay ransom to any kidnapper if really our policemen have the necessary security gadgets. This is just a trafficking issue; not that some criminals will hide somewhere and be calling people twice to pay a ransom. You cannot call three times before being caught in Mali”.

This happened in small Mali but we are the giant of Africa. Mali is poor but we are rich. The difference between us and Mali is the kind of leaders we have had.

I also read a report in a national newspaper of repute accusing commercial banks of encouraging the kidnapping epidemic in the country as, wait for it, “some ransoms are paid into bank accounts!” Are you kidding me? Nigeria, we hail thee!

  • Former Editor of PUNCH newspapers, Chairman of its Editorial Board and Deputy Editor-in-chief, BOLAWOLE was also the Managing Director/ Editor-in-chief of THE WESTERNER newsmagazine. He writes the ON THE LORD’S DAY column in the Sunday Tribune and TREASURES column in New Telegraph newspaper on Wednesdays. He is also a public affairs analyst on radio and television and can be reached on: [email protected] 0807 552 5533.

NSPPD 21 Days fasting and prayer 25th January 2024 (Day 18 prayer points)

PRAYER THEME: HIGH FAVOUR

Study/Meditate: Luke 1:28-38, Esther 2:1-18, Psalm 89:20-37, 102

Pray/Declare: January to December, HEAR ME: 2024 IS MY TIME AND MY TURN FOR HIGH FAVOUR! Amen!

2024 is my Set time for High Favor! His Mercies have gone ahead! El-Roi Has seen me! I move from bottles to wells, from lack to abundance, from dryness to overflow, from not enough to more than enough, I have indeed seen the God that sees me! Amen (Psalm 102:13, Genesis 21)

__insert your name__, Congratulations! I have an evidence that I am indeed blessed and highly favored! The Spotlight of Heaven is on me, things I thought I could not achieve, I overexceed expectations, protocols are broken for my sake, What has never been done before shall be done through my life! Amen (Luke 1:28-36)

As it was for Esther, that Mantle, that garment, that fragrance of High favor that sponsors glorious emergence, that causes men to be singled out in the midst of many, come upon me! I will be chosen, I will be preferred, I will be selected! Amen (Esther 2:1-18)

My 2024 is redeemed by the blood! Before a New day comes, High Favor will be waiting for me! Cycles of labor with no evidence are replaced with High favor and back to back celebrations, let the Things others chase begin to chase me! The same things I have been saving money for, I receive them as gifts! Amen! (Ephesians 5:16)

ZIBAs that arise to contend in the season of High Favor, Fire! I am not Mephiboshet, what is mine will not be given to another, my journey with High favor will not end suddenly, ZIBA, Fire! (2 Samuel 9:1-13, 16:1-4, 19:24-30)

Doors of High Favor, EPHAPHATHA! I refuse to operate in the same level of favor I operated in last year! I move up! I rise higher! I walk in a greater overflow! I celebrate back to back miracles that sound like lies! Let the doors Open! (Mark 7:34)

The High-Favor upon my life is trans-generational! My seed shall inherit thrones and crowns, my children will be celebrated, they shall carry global solutions and all men shall call me blessed! Powers that insist the older generation will do better than the younger, not so! Fire!!! (Genesis 22:18)

2024 is my year of back to back encounters, By the High favor upon my life, I wake up daily to angelic visitations, divine secrets, and supernatural outbursts, any power that shall arise to contend with my evidence, Fire! ( Luke 1:28-36)

Chapters of High Favor have been opened for me: Hands are turning, Feet are moving, Hearts are changing in my Favor! All things are ready for me!My Help and Helpers have arrived! My morning has come! I hear Joyful sounds, I see Miracles everywhere, Amen! (Psalm 30:5)

2024: I refuse to be small, The Giant in me must break out! Let the High Favor for an unstoppable manifestation locate me! Holyghost, sit on me, overshadow me with your Glory! Embarrass my doubts, silence my innermost fears and Let your power be perfected in areas of my weaknesses. Amen. (Luke 1:35, Acts 1-2)

The High Favor upon my life is for an assignment! I receive fresh revelation, wisdom, knowledge and understanding to align to the demands of Heaven. Arrows of distractions, Break! Powers that cause men to do the opposite of their divine mandates, Fire! I align! (Esther 2-4, Luke 1:30)

By the instrumentality of High favor upon my family in 2024, we have our NEW NAME!!! We are Blessed! We are Honored! We are Favored! We are The Ones that God has shown great mercy! Hallelujah! What God Cannot do does not exist! (Isaiah 43:1)

2024: I have indeed seen the God that sees me to show me High Favor! Thank you El-Roi for truly, What You cannot do does not exist!

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Two Assistant Superintendents of Police arrested for kidnapping, impersonation, extortion of victims

The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the arrested of three of its senior officers for alleged abduction and extortion of N4,200,000 from two residents of Aba, Abia State.

In a police signal exclusively obtained by SaharaReporters on Saturday, the erring policemen were also accused of impersonating officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

The officers attached to Rivers State Police Command were said to have left Port Harcourt to Aba, where they whisked away two men, Kalu Ibe Nnana and Uwaka Anthony Ifeanyi.

The victims were threatened by the policemen who claimed they were arrested in connection with an ongoing fraudulent investigation, the signal read.They were subsequently forced to cough up N4.2million in Delta State before they were moved to Lagos State.

The erring officers are identified as ASP Daubara Edonyabo, ASP Talent Mungo, both attached to the Intelligence/Surveying unit of the Rivers State command.
An Inspector attached to the command sport unit, Odey Micheal was also indicted.

The signal read, “GOOD EVENING SIR X SITREP X RIVERS COMMAND X DATED 18/01/2024 X ARREST OF MEMBERS OF THE FORCE FOR ALLEGED ABDUCTION AND EXTORTION X GRATEFUL BE INFORMED THAT X ON 17/01/2024 AT ABOUT 0900HRS X ONE KALU IBE NNANA ‘M’ AND UWAKA ANTHONY IFEANYI ‘M’ X RESIDENTS OF ABA X ABIA STATE X REPORTED AT INTELLIGENCE AND SURVEILLANCE UNIT MINE X ALLEGING THAT ON 15/01/2024 AT ABOUT 2000HRS X WHILE AT ECKO FILLING STATION ALONG ABA/OWERRI ROAD X ABIA STATE X THEY WERE ABDUCTED BY FIVE UNKNOWN PERSONS X WHO CLAIMED TO BE OFFICERS X AND FLASHED EFCC ID CARDS X STATING THEY WERE EFCC OPERATIVES X THE VICTIMS WERE THREATENED TO BE TAKEN TO THE LAGOS ZONAL OFFICE IN CONNECTION WITH AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION X EN ROUTE TO LAGOS STATE.

“AT DELTA STATE X NEGOTIATIONS COMMENCED X AND THE VICTIMS PAID A TOTAL OF FOUR MILLION TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND NAIRA (N4,200,000.00) THROUGH TRANSFER X SUBSEQUENTLY X ON 16/01/2024 AT ABOUT 1500HRS X CONFIRMATION OF THE TRANSFER WAS MADE X AND THE VICTIMS WERE RELEASED IN PORT HARCOURT X RIVERS STATE X SPECIFICALLY IN THE GRA AREA X IN RESPONSE TO THE REPORT X A TEAM OF DETECTIVES LED BY THE COMMANDER OF THE UNIT X IMMEDIATELY COMMENCED INVESTIGATIONS X RESULTING IN THE ARREST OF ASP DOUBARA EDONYABO ‘M’ X ASP TALENT MUNGO ‘M’ X BOTH ATTACHED TO INTELLIGENCE/SURVEILLANCE UNIT X AND INSPR ODEY MICHAEL ‘M’ X ATTACHED TO SPORT X PORT HARCOURT X THE SUSPECTS ARE CURRENTLY IN DETENTION FOR FURTHER INVESTIGATION X QUERIES WILL BE ISSUED TO THE ARRESTED OFFICERS X AND INSPR ODEY MICHAEL ‘M’ WILL BE SUBJECT TO AN ORDERLY ROOM TRIAL X THE COMMAND WILL PROVIDE FURTHER UPDATES ON THE PROGRESS OF THE INVESTIGATION X PLEASE X DECOMPOL RVS X.”

In June 2023 a Nigerian man by the Twitter name Alilmoonn called on Nigerians and the Nigerian Police Force to come to his aid after some officers around second rainbow area of Lagos harassed him and took N100,000 from his account using a POS machine.

The victim who shared the transaction receipt said he was arrested with no offense, seeing that he is using iphone 13, the Police officer tagged him a fraudster and asked to pay 200,000 or he will be handed over to the EFCC.

“The police men found nothing, the other one asked me to come down and meet their boss, I did and the boss asked me to enter inside the car they’re using to patrol, they carried me and said they want to report me to the EFCC, I’m a barber by profession, I have my certificate.”

The Victim said he was on his way returning from the Federal Registry at Ikoyi with an Uber, when the four heavily armed Police men stopped him.

“In my life I have never been this scared, Nigeria is so scared, I was abused today by the Nigerian police men? They were 4 men plus the driver, I was coming back from the federal registry at ikoyi, this men stop my Uber drive and asked him to open his boot, he did.”

I’m innocent, this men pressed me to the extent I couldn’t breathe and I was begging them so I can take air they refused, they said I’m using an iPhone 14 pro max, I’m into fraud, I swear on my life I have never done anything like that in my life!

“The police men said I should pay them 2 million naira, firstly they took my phone from me, I can’t even reach my mom or family, I told them that I don’t have up to that amount they’re requesting and I pleaded for them to stop but they never listened!!! It’s so sad Nigeria.

So the man checked my UBA balance and found out I didn’t have such amount and told them to collect 100k from me, I did nothing, they didn’t see any fraud activity in my phone, the man said if I didn’t pay they will beat me or take me to the EFCC and lock me up.

I was begging, I told them it’s my hard earn money Nigeria is hard and this men still making it unbearable for us it’s very sad they took the 100k from my bank, I couldn’t take pictures of the police because they’re with my phones.

I can’t breathe!!!! Your men did this to me today!! One of them even cock a gun, they’re after the money but not my safety, all thanks to God because I don’t even know what my mom would do without me at that stage I was thinking if I’m going to see my mom and family again

I only have the picture from the POS slips.. these men are in second rainbow Lagos State.

These men brutalized me and took 100k from me! I’m not an internet fraud, I have a job I provide for myself and family.

I need my 100k back @PoliceNG.”

Report by Sahara Reporters

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Two arrested as man dies after sex romp in hotel

Two persons have been arrested two persons in connection with the death of one Abiodun Akintomowo, in Ondo town, Ondo State.

The Ondo State Police Command made the revelation on Tuesday through its spokesperson, Funmilayo Odunlami-Omisanya.

Akintomowo reportedly lost his life after allegedly having a sex romp with a woman alleged to be his girlfriend in a hotel located at Akinjagunla area of Ondo Town on Sunday.

Odunlami-Omisanya, a Superintendent of Police, confirmed the arrest while speaking with newsmen in Akure, the Ondo State capital.

The Police Public Relations Officer, who declined to disclose the identity of the suspects, said one of them was the deceased’s girlfriend, while the second suspect was the owner of the hotel where the incident happened.

According to the Police PRO: “The man (deceased) was not feeling alright after the sexual intercourse with the lady in the hotel, so he was rushed to the hospital and later died.

“Investigation into the matter is still ongoing while the remains of the deceased have been deposited at the morgue of the hospital in the town.

“The two suspects are in police custody.”

A source said the woman raised the alarm when the deceased collapsed in the hotel room after the alleged romantic exercise.

The source said: “The woman raised the alarm after realising that the man collapsed. The manager of the hotel and some residents raced to the scene and made frantic efforts to revive the man.

“He was later confirmed dead.”

The source added that the management of the hotel later reported the matter at Yaba Divisional Police Station in the town.

The Conclave

Nigerians don’t drink death! Wine Dealer warns

  • Says use barcode detect fakes

By Cletus Ukpong

A wine dealer has suggested how Nigerian consumers can detect fake drinks in the market.

Nestor Udoh, who runs a wine shop in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, told PREMIUM TIMES in an interview on Friday in Uyo that the barcode in every drink provides a unique way to find out if a drink is original or fake.

“You see this barcode,” Mr Udoh said while pointing to a barcode on a bottle of wine he picked up near his table, in the wine shop.

“If you scan this barcode with a barcode scanner it will bring out information such as the name of the company which produced the drink, the whole process, and other relevant information about the drink. But if you scan a fake one, it will not bring out anything.

Barcode, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is “a machine-readable code in the form of numbers and a pattern of parallel lines of varying widths, printed on a commodity and used especially for stock control.”

Mr Udoh said most Nigerian consumers are not aware of the importance of barcodes on products.

Besides scanning the barcode, Mr Udoh said his shop carries out two other steps to check if a wine is original or not.

“I still call in NAFDAC for them to come and check the drinks. You know NAFDAC has a way of tasting to know if a product is fake or not.

“Of course, when I started, I spotted a few fake ones, possibly someone sneaked them into it (consignment) when they were loading them (at the supply point).

“The people that are supplying us, I sent out a message a long time ago, if I spot any fake drink from your consignment I will not buy from you again. So, when they are packaging our products, they make sure fake ones don’t enter.

“I also bring in people for wine tasting if a company is introducing a new product and we want to stock it in our shop. You see, when you are tasting for a fake wine, you do it in all ramifications. Even the taste of a wine can tell you if it’s fake or not,” he said.

Mr Udoh is a retired medical doctor. He is also a retired permanent secretary in the Akwa Ibom civil service as well as an author of a non-fiction, Civil War Child.

Why I ventured into wine business

PREMIUM TIMES asked him about what prompted him to go into the wine business.

“A lot of people think I am just selling wine to make money. No, it is not true,” Mr Udoh said.

“One day I visited my friend at the University of Uyo Teaching Hospital, and I discovered that the number of people that were cueing for renal dialysis was high. So, I asked him why the number wasn’t this much when we were much younger, and what exactly was happening. He told me it had to do with the fake things in the market, the fake food, and the fake drinks that are damaging people’s kidneys.

“I am a consultant on public health.

“So, I said let me do something that can give people an alternative to fake, that it could be another way of practising preventive medicine. Alcohol is not a good thing to take, but it is worse when you go and take fake alcohol.

“Those who produce fake drinks, most often use methanol which is used to produce methylated spirit of which they write on the body that it’s for external use only. They go for methanol because it’s cheaper than ethanol which is used in producing drinks. Methanol is very toxic, it damages the kidney.

“I did a sensitisation on radio on why people should be careful about what they were drinking before I ventured into starting a wine shop,” he said.

Culled from Premium Times

Behold the 17-year old math wiz, Esther Okade who has PhD in Financial Mathematics

For her uncommon mathematical prowess, a 17-year old British-Nigerian mathematician, Esther Okade has not only gained the spotlight, but a PhD in Financial Mathematics.

By the age of 10, Esther who was born in 2005, got enrolled in a university mathematics course.

At age 14, Ms. Esther earned her PhD in Financial Mathematics.

She has made significant strides in her academic pursuits and is recognized for her talent in mathematics.

Esther, who lives in Walsall, an industrial city in the United Kingdom, reportedly did not attend a formal school because her mother educated her at home; Omonefe Okade simply called Efe, who turned out to be a teacher and a mathematician.

Esther was said to have grown up like any other girl her age, as she loves to play with Barbie dolls and dress like Elsa from Frozen, but other than that, she is above her age in iq and academic.

She started school like her age mates, but the once vibrant little girl changed dramatically and luckily her parents noticed the change and decided to teach her from home.

Intimate Affairs: The lady boss wife

By Funke Egbemode

She has come a long way. She started small, very small in fact, but life has been kind to her. She has found favour with God and man. Today, the young awkward marketing executive is the Chief Operating Officer of a multi-million naira concern. She has men, her father’s age, calling her Madam, and women, more beautiful than her, scrambling for her attention and approval. She is a force you can’t ignore in her industry.

Though many women wish they were in her shoes but her life is not all the colours of the rainbow that we all see.

She is married with children and the last line of her profile reads like that of most women in her shoes: she is happily married with children. Hmm, not totally true. Not totally false. Married with children yes, but the happy part? Not always.

But come to think of it, which marriage is happy all the time? Some days you are happy, others you just wish you’d married someone else. And there are those days you want to shoot him, even if it’s in the leg or with rubber bullets. Not a biggie. Nobody should go into marriage hoping to be happy every single second. Happily ever after, I think, is a concoction from Denise Robins’ romance kitchen.

Oh, all those romance novels we read and believed! Yours sincerely read so many Mills and Boons I actually believed all the purple prose about tall rich, dark and handsome romantic man myth. If you are a fan of M&B, you’ll remember all the favourite authors now: Carole Mortimer, Anne Mather, Penny Jordan. Are you smiling? I am. The things those writers filled our heads with!

Come back to the present, into the life of the lady boss and the man she married. Welcome to the life of the successful career married woman. And the fine-boy-no-pimples guy she married.

Hear her husband: “These days I’m not sure if I’m married or not because my wife is married to her job. I virtually have to book appointments to see her. Sex is no longer spontaneous. It’s like there is a roster somewhere for making love to my own wife o. For instance, Mondays are totally not sex days. Fridays are not either. Saturday mornings, she wants to sleep in so I cannot check out my property.

“And the week before a board of directors meeting is worse. She falls asleep surrounded by laptop, iPad, tons of files, her glasses still perched on the bridge of her nose. I can’t even sneak a touchy-feel. We have full compliments of kitchen staff now complete with a chef who spices every dish to high heavens.

“But nobody makes vegetable soup like my wife. I miss the aroma of her ‘akara’ waking me up on Saturday mornings. Now, if two of the reasons you married your wife is the great sex and her cooking prowess, what do you do when she becomes a big girl, with a nine-digit salary, who neither cooks nor satisfies you in bed? Is someone going to blame me if I start getting some on the side?”

Now, why do I get this strong feeling that bros is already doing full-scale extra-curricular activities? You see, when a man threatens to take a second wife, 60 percent of the time, he has already taken one. He’s just looking for an opportunity to bring her in.

So, when the husband of the lady boss reels out a long list of his reasons why he deserves a girlfriend, hmmm, I can bet my leave allowance that he is already getting thoroughly serviced by one impressionable undergraduate or even his secretary. All the same, let’s consider his complaint sheet without imagining him in a non-missionary position with his secretary.

I truly sympathise with men married to career women, especially the one who have risen to the top of the ladder. They are rare breeds and even bigger boys than their big-girl-wives. To marry a big babe doesn’t take much, which is why a lot of men marry them in the first place. It is glamorous and men these days consciously seek out the big babes. Check out the wedding invitation cards you currently have and the weddings you had attended in the last six months. You will find the brides are bankers, doctors, even entrepreneurs. Guys suddenly prefer the already made girls, not just the ones who come from old money or who are daughters of politicians. Many times, I must admit, the unemployed girls don’t get as many proposals as the career girls.

But somehow, after marriage and as the years go by, the husband of the lady boss starts complaining and one wonders why. Could it be that he couldn’t see beyond his happy nose of long ago? I mean, a 29-year-old bride doing well in a bank will eventually grow into a General Manager and that post certainly will come with hours or responsibilities. As the perks increase, so will the meetings and official trips and dinners and meeting with clients.

Most men just generally assume that if their fine wives have dinner with a rich client, the rich client will have their wives for dinner. And we all know what those kinds of thoughts do to men’s heads. Poor folks. They just aren’t ever prepared for the brighter years and that’s when the complaints start.

Men are not like women in any way, are they? When a woman marries a poor man and he becomes rich, we just slide smoothly, effortlessly into the role of the wife of a big boy. We move from buying second hand dresses to designer ones. We move from cheap costume jewellery to dainty gold and even diamonds. We learn the movements and adapt to new neighbourhoods. We even learn new ways to monitor our men’s movements. But a man is not really wired to tag along. Yet, since sh*t happens and this is a new world, the husband of the lady boss just must adapt. It’s just the way the cookies crumble. And the best way to adapt is to own both the assets and liabilities.

Now, the lady boss needs to do a lot of work to keep her man, her home and her marriage, Yes, she can’t do ‘efo riro’ and ‘akara’ as often as bros wants but she must make out time to cook her husband’s favourite dishes as often as she can. Dear sis, just get the kitchen staff to lay out the ingredients. Next step: get into your hottest pants or shorts and make sure bros is around to watch you sweat it out making his vegetable soup. Roll all your assets as you move up and down. Let him gasp. Let him drool but you don’t have to give it all up that night. This is just the cooking phase.

The other department you must man with all your strength is the bedroom. You cannot allow those little girls outdo you in the territory where you have more cognate experience. Deploy those assets and give him the service of his life. If he’s one of those guys who likes to hang out with his friends on Fridays, Thursday night is your execution date. Show him undiluted service. Shake him up. Make him pant. Make him beg. Take him to the seventh heaven and let him ride back to earth on your back, sweating. Even if he does not cancel his date with the boys, you are almost sure he can’t deliver the goods with girls. Right? Give him something to think about all day. Let him doze at his desk. Let him look forward to a next time.

Beg him to make out time to accompany you on official trips once in a while. Take him far from the madding crowd and give him the treat of his life. Swim at night together if you do and …well, I can’t say everything here. Even when you are tired, you know great sex is great exercise and you need to work out, don’t you? See? It’s a win-win situation.

No matter how hard you work at work, you must protect the territorial integrity of your marriage.

The author could be reached on: [email protected].

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