Information About Potential Denmark, Norway and Sweden Pilot Strike

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As a result of the notice of strike given by the pilots’ unions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, we’d like to tell you that you can get up-to-date information here.

Mediation is ongoing and SAS’ ambition is to reach an agreement as soon as possible to avert a strike. A potential strike might affect SAS’ air traffic with earliest start Wednesday June 29th.

If strike will be initiated a number of flights might be affected. As a precaution we therefore offer a rebooking option free of charge. If you normally book your travel through an agency, we kindly ask you to contact your travel agency for further assistance and information.

We truly apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you and your colleagues.

Best wishes from SAS

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Ministerial Appointment: Udi and Akwa Ibom’s Umana Proves Amaechi as a Truly Selfless Leader – Eze

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….Congratulates and Urges Ministerial-Nominees to Remain Focused and Visionary for Nigeria’s Journey to Success

….Congratulates Ikenga for a Well Deserved Appointment

…. Pleads with Other Members of Amaechi Political Family to be Hopeful for a Better Tomorrow

 

Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, member of the APC Legacy Projects Media Team and erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct New  People’s Democratic Party (nPDP), Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze, has described the emergence of the Ministerial nominees from Rivers and Akwa-Ibom States, Udi Odum and Umana O. Umana as befitting rewards for good statesmanship by President Mohammadu Buhari, in his quest to deliver greater democratic dividends to Nigerians and accomplish the mandates of his administration within time.

 

In a statement made available to media houses in Port Harcourt, Chief Eze said the nominations pioneered by former Presidential aspirant, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi – the immediate past Minister of Transportation and the most outstanding Minister in the annals of history, has further solidified the establishment of the former Rivers Governor as the future of this country’s political emancipation and development, given his accommodating and sagacious leadership, moral inputs to national development and enduring legacies both as the Governor of Rivers State and as a Minister.

 

The party Chief said Amaechi’s inputs to what the APC/Buhari administration has achieved is very visible even to the blind and for some of those who are today enjoying and benefitting from the APC administration to feel that Amaechi should be kicked out from the system are  desperate wicked.

 

“The high level conspiracies to ensure that Amaechi leaves the seat of power not minding all his inputs are sheer wickedness. I am however convinced that God has not abandoned Amaechi and that very obvious fact should be the most important thing to those who may be pained over the plots against him.”

 

“As a matter of recompense, most of those involved in the high level conspiracies against Amaechi are reaping the fruits of their actions and the ex-Minister is not moved as he awaits for God’s direction about his future.”

 

Eze noted with happiness that the nomination of Hon. Odum Udi and Chief Umana O. Umana as Minsters of the Federal Republic of Nigeria once again put Amaechi not only as a rare, selfless Leader but a true caring Leader.

 

Highlighting that though many maybe disappointed about the latest nominees with the feeling that appointments are only meant for those from their tribes or class, Eze restated that Amaechi is one honest and detribalized Nigerian who plays down tribal sentiments with the strong believe that appointments should be meant for trusted, competent and loyal human beings.

 

The appointments of Hon. Odum Udi and Chief Umana Okon Umana, Eze said came to the duo as a surprise as none of them was expecting such exalted office.

 

“With these nominations, no matter what may be the thought of anybody, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has placed himself amongst selfless and caring Leaders of our time”.

 

Eze further highlighted that Hon. Udi is a classical example and description of what loyalty is all about and based on his perseverance and loyalty to the political family of Amaechi, he has today reaped the fruits of all his sacrifices over the years.

 

Eze quoted Dr. Ugoji Egbujo as stating that “…in few weeks time, this young man will be 50 who became a champion for his people.  Leaving primary school at 14 and finishing secondary school without a good result could have produced a deviant in the creeks. But not Odum Udi. He trudged on into business and farming. Toil and faith in God,  living and farming in the creeks, yielded dividends. A generous and caring man, unaffected by urban drift, Odum Udi developed into a local community organizer. As his business blossomed, the thirst for self-improvement led him to start studying again. He rewrote NECO in 2000.

 

His exceptional leadership abilities were identified fairly early by his political party. Governor Peter Odili appointed him the caretaker chairman of Abua/Odual Local Government Area in 2003. After a one-year stint as chairman, he gained admission into the University of Port Harcourt to study Management. But his people, amongst whom he lived, yearned for his leadership. In 2008, he was elected chairman of Abua/Odual LGA. In 2009, the tenacious man graduated from the University of Port Harcourt with a bachelor’s in management sciences. A consummate community manager, Odum Udi forsook the city and lived and worked in the creeks. In 2011, he was re-elected executive chairman of the local government area. In recognition of his exemplary services, the state decorated him as the best-performing local government chairman in 2008-09.

 

Two-time award-winning executive chairman of Abua/Odual LGA and three-time decorated caretaker committee chairman, Odum Udi is a champion of community organizing. Hungry for self-improvement, he continued his studies. In 2012, he earned a postgraduate diploma in Management.”

 

In Rivers State politics, for you to be recognized or acknowledged you have to join the group of betrayers but not Hon. Udi who has been consistent and one of our very best in as much as CRA’s political family is concerned through the grace of God Amaechi as a the people’s Leader fetched this great asset to replace him as the Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.”

 

Throwing more light about this engima in the politics of Rivers State, Lady Obiabin Alice Onukwugha a seasoned Journalist based in Rivers State who is from the same Local Govt Area with this great Philosopher King of our time stated in her article titled, “Udi Odum: The Messiah you don’t know”

 

In 2012, Abua/Odual was hit with the worse flood. It coincided when Hon Odum was Chairman of Abua/Odual local government area of Rivers State.

 

Communities in Odual were submerged, because it’s surrounded with rivers and creeks both from Nembe and Ogbia in Bayelsa state and the Orashi River in Rivers State. Odual is a hybrid kingdom.

 

As a man who cared for his people, Hon Odum, then local government Chairman, sent boats to evacuate the people of Odual to Abua Central where he provided a camp for them with his own resources.

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Being the selfless leader that he is, Hon. Odum, distributed every bit of what was sent, never siphoning or embezzling anything as is the most cases we hear today. Even when some relief materials came months the people had returned to their Communities, the communities still got them. And while at the camp, Hon Odum provided the best comfort for the people, not letting them lack anything.

 

Permit me to observe here that after the administration of Hon. Odum, there have been constant flooding, in Abua/Odual except for last year (2021). But never had any other administration in the area done what Hon Odum did.

 

Recently, when some committees were formed in the APC, I poured out my heart asking when an Abua/Odual man will ever be appointed into such high-level stakeholder committee of a party. But praise God the answer is here.

 

Hon Odum is not just a loyalists, he is a strategist, a performer, a square peg in a square hole, who will definitely bring the needed change in whatever ministry he will be assigned to. As for the Abua/Odual people, our time for political emancipation is now.

 

To the Rt. Hon. former Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, while I cannot speak for the Abua/Odual people, I still ask for permission to say on behalf of our great people, thank you. Thank you for choosing one of our own. Thank you for rewarding loyalty, thank you for recognizing hard work. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Alua. GOD BLESS YOU!”

 

This is the man that the Peoples Leader Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi misunderstood by many who don’t know him risked to appoint a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria thereby given hope to rest of the faithful members of his team that the future is very very bright no matter the odds.

 

Eze further highlighted that in recognition of the sufferings and sacrifices that Amaechi made in establishing the APC in the South South region of Nigeria and as the South South Leader of APC, he was given the approval by President Muhammadu Buhari to also nominate a Minister from Akwa Ibom and he nominated yet another great Giant in the politics of Akwa-Ibom, Chief Umana Okon Umana a close associate of Amaechi and a man who loves to thread where tigers are afraid to pass.

 

Umana, according to records, was born August 20, 1959 in Calabar, Cross River State. He is a renowned economist and politician.

 

He has held the positions of the State Director of Budget; Permanent Secretary Budget (October 2000 – August 2003) and Hon. Commissioner for Finance in Akwa Ibom (Aug 2003 – May 2007). He was the immediate past Secretary to Akwa Ibom State Government (June 2007 – July 2013).

 

He has a degree in Economics in University of Calabar (1980) and an MBA (Finance) 1987. He has attended specialized management courses and these include the Senior Executive Program (2002) of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business as well as the Senior Executive Program (2009) of the London Business School.

 

Umana served as Secretary to the State Government when Godswill Akpabio was governor of Akwa Ibom State. Incidentally, the Managing Director, Oil and Gas Free Zones Authority (OGFZA), He was governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Akwa Ibom State during the 2015 election, which was won by incumbent Governor Udom Emmanuel.

 

Eze encouraged those who have continued to stand faithful with the political family of Amaechi to remain undeterred as Amaechi is not one that forgets those who have stood with him only that as a human being, he cannot reach all his supporters at the same time but with time, no matter the odds, he will get to most members of his team.

 

Another classical example of a befitting reward for loyalty is the appointment of Hon. Ikenga Chibuike, a one man army that all efforts to influence him to betray Amaechi remained a dream in the eyes of those who were assigned for this devilish task as a Director of National Inland Waterways (NIWA) from 2022 to -2025.

 

According to Eze, Hon. Chibuike was amongst a special class of leaders from Rivers State nurtured by Amaechi right from the University. Others in this class include Nwuke Anucha, Dakuku Peterside, Sunny Obowu, Gabriel Pidomson, Temple Amadi, Obed Chinda to mention but a few.

 

This one man soldier was from 1998/99 the Ikwerre-APP party chairman and by 2000 appointed the Special Assistant to the commissioner, Culture and Tourism.

 

From 2000-2005 he was appointed Commissioner, Public Affairs/Political Clearance. Rivers state Independent Electoral commission and by 2007-2011 Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Government House, PH

 

In appreciation for his love excellence, he was in 2008-2011 appointed the Secretary, Greater Port Harcourt Land Acquisition Committee and by 2012-2014 Special Assistant(Admin) to the Managing Director/CEO, NDDC

 

By 2014, Ikenga was appointed Chairman, Ikwerre Local Government (Care-Taker) and from 2017 till date, maintained his position as the Leader of Party (APC), Ikwerre Local Government

 

Finally Amaechi saw to his appointment as a Director, National Inland Waterways (NIWA) from 2022 -2025

 

Apostle Eugene Ogu a highly respected Christian Leader in Nigeria and the Spiritual Head of the Amaechi’s political family in affirming the trustworthiness of this great political Oroko stated, “it is my prayers, that God bless this great grassroot mobilize and indomitable political icon and defender of his people,and one that refuses to throw in the towel in betrayal of his master and principal Amaechi,as others are doing, sitting hunger and leak of appointment as reasons for their actions.”

 

Testifying about the benevolence and greatness of this special Gift to Nigeria, Eze postulated how AMAECHI’S SEEDS ARE GERMINATING ACROSS THE WORLD.

 

According to the report posted by Barr. Eli Sogbeye, “Odeobi Ekpar, Son of a local farmer in Abua Odual LGA of Rivers State. His life and that of his family changed for the better when he won Rivers State Sustainable Development Agency’s (RSSDA) Scholarship to study in Canada during the Rotimi Amaechi era as Governor. Today he just moved in to his own house in Ontario Canada.

 

Thank You Amaechi, father of both rich and poor kids. Many of these guys (Amaechi beneficiaries) are today scattered all over the world.

 

God Bless Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi.”

 

I just pray and that Politicians should use political offices to change the lives of ordinary members of the public.

 

Eze finally congratulated and urged the Ministerial-nominees to remain focused and visionary for Nigeria’s Journey to Success..

 

Let me urge those who have deserted Amaechi for one reason or the other to be informed that the future is still very bright for those who have resolved to stay with him not minding the odds.

 

Ends

 

Signed

 

Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze,

 

APC Chieftain, member of APC Legacy Projects Media Team & former National Publicity Secretary, nPDP

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How did a banished prince from Benin ascend to the throne of the Ile-ife Edo Kingdom?

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Benin Was the first Igodomigodo and Greater than Ife(Oduduwa) Igodomigodo kingdom Was the greatest Ogiso and the first King in West Africa Region to receive foreign traders. The Last Ogiso Son who was to succeed his father was banished from Edo and arrived Yoruba kingdom and was crowned as the king of Ile Ife. Izoduwa in Edo Language is corrupted to Oduduwa in Yoruba understanding. The Powerful Kingdom in Nigeria and the first Empire recognized by foreign traders were (Ubini) Edo Kingdom. Edo King capture many towns such as Eko which is now Lagos and also capture Ijebu Edo Kingdom was stretched from Ijebu and Lagos to the Republic of Darhomey which is now changed to the Republic of Benin. Respect for the priestly functions of the oni of Ife was a crucial factor in the evolution of Yoruba ethnicity. The Ife model of government was adept and derived its military strength from its cavalry forces, which established hegemony over the adjacent Nupe and the Borgu kingdoms and thereby developed trade routes farther to the north.
Edoland established a community in the Yoruba-speaking area east of Ubini before becoming a dependency of Benin Kingdom at the beginning of the 14th century. By the 15th century, it became an independent trading power, blocking Ife’s access to the coastal ports as Oyo had cut off the mother city from the savanna. Political and religious authority resided in the oba (king) who according to tradition was descended from the Ogiso dynasty in Benin Kingdom. Benin, which may have housed much inhabitants at its height, spread over large square km that were enclosed by concentric rings of earthworks. By the late 15th century Edo Kingdom was in contact with Portugal (see Atlantic slave trade). At its apogee in the 16th and 17th centuries, Edo encompassed parts of southeastern Yorubaland and the western parts of the present Delta State.
IGBO STATES
The Nri Kingdom in the Awka area was founded in about 900 AD in North Central Igboland. The Nsukka-Awka-Orlu axis is said to be the oldest area of Igbo settlement and therefore, the homeland of the Igbo people. This ancient kingdom is still considered the cradle of Igbo culture. The Nri people are children of the historical and mythical divine king Eri (founder of Aguleri of the Umueri clan on the Anambra river valley). It was a centre of spirituality, learning, and commerce. They were agents of peace and harmony whose influence stretched beyond Igboland. The Nri people’s influence in neighbouring lands was especially in Southern Igalaland and Benin kingdom in the 12th to 15th centuries. As great travellers, they were also business people involved in the long distant Tran Saharan trade. The development and sophistication of this civilization are evident in the bronze castings found in Igbo Ukwu, an area of Nri influence. The Benin kingdom became a threat in the 15th century under Oba Ewuare. Since they were against slaves and slavery, their power took a downturn when the slave trade was at its peak in the 18th century. The Benin and Igala slave-raiding empires became the main influence in their relationship with Western and Northern Igbos their former main areas of influence and operation. Upper Northwest Cross River Igbo groups like the Aro Confederacy and Ohafia peoples, as well as the Awka and Umunoha people, used oracular activities and other trading opportunities after Nri’s decline in the 18th century to become the major influences in Igboland and all adjacent areas. This includes parts of Igalaland and places west of the Niger river indirectly affected by the Benin kingdom.
YORUBA KINGDOM
Historically the Yoruba have been the dominant group on the west bank of the Niger. Of mixed origin, they were the product of periodic waves of migrants. The Yoruba were organized into patrilineal groups that occupied village communities and subsisted on agriculture. From about the 8th-century adjacent village compounds, called ile, coalesced into numerous territorial city-states in which clan loyalties became subordinate to dynastic chieftains. The earliest known of these city-states formed at Ife and Ijebu. The latter city was fortified by a wall and ditch known today as Sungbo’s Eredo around 800 AD. Urbanization was accompanied by high levels of artistic achievement, particularly in terracotta and ivory sculpture and in the sophisticated metal casting produced at Ife. The Yoruba placated a luxuriant pantheon headed by an impersonal deity, Olorun, and included lesser deities who performed various tasks. Oduduwa was regarded as the creator of the earth and the ancestor of the Yoruba kings. According to myth Oduduwa founded Ife and dispatched his sons to establish other cities, where they reigned as priest-kings. Ife was the center of as many as 400 religious cults whose traditions were manipulated to political advantage by the oni (king).
THE NORTHERN KINGDOMS OF THE SAVANA
Trade was the key to the emergence of organized communities in the savanna portions of Nigeria. Prehistoric inhabitants adjusting to the encroaching desert were widely scattered by the third millennium BC, when the desiccation of the Sahara began. Trans-Saharan trade routes linked western Sudan with the Mediterranean since the time of Carthage and with the Upper Nile from a much earlier date, establishing avenues of communication and cultural influence that remained open until the end of the 19th century. By these same routes, Islam made its way south into West Africa after the 9th century AD.
By then a string of dynastic states, including the earliest Hausa states, stretched across the western and central Sudan. The most powerful of these states were Ghana, Gao, and Kanem, which were not within the boundaries of modern Nigeria but indirectly influenced the history of the Nigerian savanna. Ghana declined in the 11th century but was succeeded by Mali Empire which consolidated much of western Sudan in the 13th century. Following the breakup of Mali a local leader named Sonni Ali (1464-1492) founded the Songhai Empire in the region of middle Niger and western Sudan and took control of the trans-Saharan trade. Sunni Ali seized Timbuktu in 1468 and Jenne in 1473, building his regime on trade revenues and the cooperation of Muslim merchants. His successor Askiya Mohammad Ture (1493-1528) made Islam the official religion, built mosques, and brought Muslim scholars, including al-Maghili (died c. 1505), the founder of an important tradition of Sudanic African Muslim scholarship, to Gao. Although these western empires had little political influence on the Nigerian savanna before 1500, they had a strong cultural and economic impact that became more pronounced in the 16th century, especially because these states became associated with the spread of Islam and trade. Throughout the 16th century much of northern Nigeria paid homage to Songhai in the west or to Bornu, a rival empire in the east.
KANEM BORNU EMPIRE
Bornu’s history is closely associated with Kanem, which had achieved imperial status in the Lake Chad basin by the 13th century. Kanem expanded westward to include the area that became Bornu. The mai (king) of Kanem and his court accepted Islam in the 11th century, as the western empires also had done. Islam was used to reinforcing the political and social structures of the state although many established customs were maintained. Women, for example, continued to exercise considerable political influence.
The mai employed his mounted bodyguard and an inchoate army of nobles to extend Kanem’s authority into Bornu. By tradition, the territory was conferred on the heir to the throne to govern during his apprenticeship. In the 14th century, however, dynastic conflict forced the then-ruling group and its followers to relocate in Bornu, where as a result the Kanuri emerged as an ethnic group in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The civil war that disrupted Kanem in the second half of the 14th century resulted in the independence of Bornu.
Bornu’s prosperity depended on the trans-Sudanic slave trade and the desert trade in salt and livestock. The need to protect its commercial interests compelled Bornu to intervene in Kanem, which continued to be a theater of war throughout the fifteenth and into the sixteenth centuries. Despite its relative political weakness in this period, Bornu’s court and mosques under the patronage of a line of scholarly kings earned fame as centers of Islamic culture and learning.
THE HAUSA STATES.
By the 11th century some Hausa states – such as Kano, Katsina, and Gobir – had developed into walled towns engaging in trade, servicing caravans, and the manufacture of various goods. Until the 15th century, these small states were on the periphery of the major Sudanic empires of the era. They were constantly pressured by Songhai to the west and Kanem-Bornu to the east, to which they paid tribute. Armed conflict was usually motivated by economic concerns, as coalitions of Hausa states mounted wars against the Jukun and Nupe in the middle belt to collect slaves or against one another for control of trade.
Islam arrived at Hausaland along the caravan routes. The famous Kano Chronicle records the conversion of Kano’s ruling dynasty by clerics from Mali, demonstrating that the imperial influence of Mali extended far to the east. Acceptance of Islam was gradual and was often nominal in the countryside where folk religion continued to exert a strong influence. Nonetheless, Kano and Katsina, with their famous mosques and schools, came to participate fully in the cultural and intellectual life of the Islamic world. The Fulani began to enter the Hausa country in the 13th century and by the 15th century, they were tending cattle, sheep, and goats in Bornu as well. The Fulani came from the Senegal River valley, where their ancestors had developed a method of livestock management based on transhumance. Gradually they moved eastward, first into the centers of the Mali and Songhai empires and eventually into Hausaland and Bornu. Some Fulbe converted to Islam as early as the 11th century and settled among the Hausa, from whom they became racially indistinguishable. There they constituted a devoutly religious, educated elite who made themselves indispensable to the Hausa kings as state advisers, Islamic tribunes, and teachers.

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The police in Delta State have detained Mr. Volt Gabriel, 33, for reportedly killing his 20-month-old son Godspower Gabriel.

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A 33-year-old man, Mr Volt Gabriel, has been arrested by the police in Delta State for allegedly beheading his 20- month- old son, Godspower Gabriel, for ritual purposes, Delta Police Commissioner, Mohammed Ali has said.

The police Commissioner said the incident occurred at Peanut Junction, Obeh village, Edo State.

Ali, in a statement, said a woman Mrs Success Oduwa 24 yr old reported the disappearance of her son to the police.

He said the victim’s mother sought the whereabouts of her son from her husband after a fruitless search, who lied that the boy was with his sister in Warri.

He said a police team at Warri “B” Division swung into action and arrested the suspect.

He said the suspect confessed to having murdered the child using a hack saw and burying the head by a palm tree while throwing away the headless body.

According to Ali, the suspect claimed he was instructed in a dream by a man to kill his son, and that he will become wealthy if he rubs his head with his son’s blood…

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Anthony-Claret is a software Engineer, entrepreneur and the founder of Codewit INC. Mr. Claret publishes and manages the content on Codewit Word News website and associated websites. He's a writer, IT Expert, great administrator, technology enthusiast, social media lover and all around digital guy.
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