Lawmaker Alhassan Ado-Doguwa with his 4 wives & 27 children
A photograph of the majority leader of the House of Representatives, Hon Alhassan Ado-Doguwa, A Lawmaker who has 4 wives & 27 children, has emerged online.
If you recall, Ado-Doguwa made news in January this year when he attended his swearing-in into the lower chambers accompanied by his four wives while boasting of being powerful by having 27 children.
He was being sworn in as the majority leader, and said he would like to present the four wives to the lawmakers.
The lawmaker who represents Doguwa/Tudun Wada federal constituency of Kano state, says he hopes to have more.
“Mr. Speaker, I would like to let you know that with me today here, are my four respected wives,” he said, before requesting all four to stand up to the cheering of his colleagues.
“Mr Speaker, these four wives you have seen have produced 27 kids for me, and I am still counting. I am still counting.” he said at the time.
He told media in the House of Representatives that his 86-year-old father left behind 40 children, including a 4-year-old.
Muhammad Sanusi II, emir of Kano once said the predominant culture of marrying more than one wife by Nigerians in the north is the major cause of poverty in the region.
“There are people who cannot afford to feed one wife but are ready to marry three wives and have more children than they can feed, talk less of paying for their school fees,” he had said.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission reported that 1,159,325 are men, while 1,052,209 are women, 50 per cent of voters making up young people between the ages of 18 and 35.
The data was released at the presentation of voter register to the 14 political parties taking part in the election at the INEC office in Benin on Monday.
According to the register, the South Senatorial District has the highest number of registered voters with 1,281,414, the North with 564,122, while the Central Senatorial District has the least with 364,998 voters.
The electoral body further stated that 483,769 voters failed to collect their PVCs.
INEC National Commissioner supervising Edo, Bayelsa and Rivers states, May Agbamuche-Mbu, said the election would be held under strict adherence to the NCDC guidelines on Covid-19.
“I will also use this opportunity to call on the parties to submit names of party agents not later than September 1. I want to urge all stakeholders to cooperate with the commission to ensure that the Edo State Governorship Election 2020 is free, fair, credible and violent-free,” she added.
The state governor, Godwin Obaseki, will compete the All Progressive Congress and other candidates for governorship under the People’s Democratic Party against Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu.
Barcelona Rule Out Quique Setien – New Coach Identity Leacked
The Spanish Football Club, FC Barcelona has formally announced that Quique Setien is no longer their first-team coach, adding it will be naming her new coach as soon as possible.
Todaysloaded News understands that the decision came after a crushing 8-2 loss for Bayern Munich, a German professional football team. Setien who only joined Camp Nou as the Spanish club’s first coach in January 2020 has now been fired after he was unable to deliver a victory for the Catalans against Munich in their quarter-final Champions League clash.
The overhaul of the club’s first squad will be confirmed after agreement between the club ‘s current technical director and the new coach, according to a statement monitored by Todaysloaded News on the club’s official website.
It stated further that the identity of the new coach will be unveiled in a few days from now.
The statement reads; “The Board of Directors have agreed that Quique Setién is no longer the first-team coach. This is the first decision within a wider restructuring of the first team which will be agreed between the current technical secretary and the new coach, who will be announced in the coming days.”
The statement added, “Quique Setién came to Barça as a coach on 13 January of this year. During his seven months in charge the Cantabrian coached the first team in 25 matches: 19 in the league, three in the Champions League and three in the Copa del Rey.”
However, a report by SkySports has alleged that Holland manager, Ronald Koeman is expected to replace Setien as Barcelona’s first-team coach.
The West African Senior School Certificate Examination this year has been a very peculiar one. Like the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that ‘escaped’ the COVID-19 saga, WASSCE has been trapped in the pandemic network, as far as the timetable for WASSCE is concerned. Yet it’s awesome that the examination has actually started, after much pressure and confusion.
How are you, my dearest candidates of WASSCE? I hope Mathematics, which you started with on Monday, was good. I hope you will carefully read this article because it has the potential to help you in the oral aspect of the English paper also holding in a few days. It is like a revision that will touch on key areas of the segment.
Oral English, no more written English
Remember that when you get to the oral section of the paper, you should switch your mentality to phonetics and phonology; that is, you should not mix up the terms or expressions given with the written form. For instance, when we talk about vowels and consonants in the oral section, we are no more talking about the a, b, c, d alphabet. Rather, you are dealing with the phonetic sounds such as /i/, /g/ and /r/.
You should know the way you write or spell these elements is different from the way you pronounce them in the oral English class. Although some have similar patterns as alphabetic and phonetic sounds (like p, b and t), others are not. So, in many cases, before you pick an answer to match an underlined sound, ensure you first pronounce it. Imagine if you are asked to pick a word with /g/ from this list: gentle, greed, agile and generator. You know some people will go for either gentle, agile or generator, whereas it is only in ‘greed’ that you have the given sound! The reason is that such people are still treating the /g/ as if they are dealing with the a, b, c, d, e, f tradition with which they were ushered into the primary school. So, gently pronounce the sounds – without disturbing anyone – before you pick any option.
Remember the difference between short and long vowels
WASSCE and other similar examiners like testing candidates’ knowledge of the differences between short and long vowels. As a result, they usually give questions with options from both categories. This means you should master the differences in the pronunciations of the likes of bit and beat; pot and port; cat and cart; as well as pull and pool. Indeed, I dare say that any candidate who cannot differentiate between the pronunciations of the words in each pair is hardly ready for the exam. Consider being confronted with a question asking you to choose the word with /i:/ from among the following: skit, speak, with and bike. What will be your answer? To start with, ‘skit’ and ‘with’ are wrong because what you have in them is the short /i/, while you are looking for the long. Secondly, although there is letter ‘I’ in ‘bike’, it is a diphthong (ai) and, so, not correct. In other words, the correct answer is ‘speak’, because the ‘ea’ in it is pronounced as EE (/i:/), as you have in a week, heat, deceive and receive.
Master the differences between voiced and voiceless consonants
Often, the examiner also wants to be sure whether or not you know the differences between the pronunciations of f and v, s and z. This means that, as a student, your pronunciation should stand out – from that of the crowds who say ‘foice’ instead of ‘voice’, and those who say ‘soom’ instead of ‘zoom’! And I am sure that is what many people blow every day! It can be a little more complicated when we consider the fact that in common words where you think you have and should say /s/, all you have and should pronounce is /z/. Consider the word, resume, in which the ‘ s’ should be pronounced as ‘z’, because you have a vowel sound before the letter ‘s’. I will not dwell too much on this because I don’t want to confuse you our dear candidates, though I hope our great teachers have taught you accordingly.
Coupled with words having s and z are those with sh. You should get their articulation right. Which of these, for instance, has /s/: assist, hazard, wash, zoom? It is ‘assist’.
Expect something on t, th, d and tha
Pardon me for not using the appropriate phonetic symbols here. I have to leave them out because they might get messed up in the course of production. But the fact is that many people do not know the differences in the pronunciations of words such as tree and three, wet and wealth, thee and deep. The point is that, as a candidate, you should master the consonant sounds represented by the underlined letters. If you are, thus, asked to choose another word that has the sound in the underlined letter in ‘this’, from among the following, you should know what to do: within, doubt, rethink and thrice. What is your answer? Mine is ‘within’.
A tip on rhymes
It is a pity that we cannot cover all the aspects of oral English in today’s lesson. But quickly note that, under rhymes, it is the last part of the word, like the last syllable, that you should mostly pay attention to. It is the last sounds of the given words that should principally rhyme. In other words, if they rhyme at the beginning or in the middle but do not rhyme at the end, then they cannot be the options you are looking for.
Assuming (pronounced as aZuming not aSuming!) you are asked to pick a word that rhymes with disgrace from among grace, great, ungrateful and disgraced, what will you go for? You dare not go for great, ungrateful and disgraced. The reason is that it is only ‘grace’ that really rhymes with ‘disgrace’.
UNILORIN VC Speaks On Resumption Of Academic Activities
Professor Sulyman Age Abdulkareem, vice-chancellor of Ilorin University, has cleared the air on reports that the institution has declared the date of resumption.
According to Abdulakareem during a conversation with reporters in the Kwara State capital on Monday, August 17, the institution is yet to fix any date for resumption of academic activities for students of the UNILORIN.
The VC said this became pertinent as the Federal government was yet to announce a date for institutions in the country to allow for students to resume classes.
“UNILORIN would remain closed to students pending the directives of constituted authorities,” said Abdulkareem.
He added, “The university is fully prepared to welcome its students back to campus for the completion of the rest of the 2019/2020 academic session and subsequent new session,”
He disclosed further that the institution has made every arrangement “to ensure that the campus is made safe and conducive for members of the university community.”
Abdulkareem added that arrangements were also ongoing in the UNILORIN to ensure that the processes of ‘admission of new students begin as stated by concerned authorities.’
The VC expressed delight that the institution remains the choice of the greatest number of intending students.
He described UNILORIN “as a training ground, not only in the academic field but also in leadership,” adding that he was not surprised about the appointment of some members of staff serving as Vice Chancellors of some sister universities among positions.
The government stated this on Monday, August 17 via the Gombe State Public Health Emergency Operations Centre (PHEOC) official Twitter page, while announcing that a candidate who had tested positive for COVID-19 in the state today wrote his first paper in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC) from an isolation centre.
Todaysloaded news Comprehends that the candidate whose name was not revealed wrote his Mathematics paper under the supervision of a watchdog who was fully kitted in a COVID-19 Personal Protective Equipment.
Further findings, however, revealed that the candidate was a final year student of Government Senior Secondary School, Gombe.
The tweet which was accompanied with the candidate’s photograph and his standing invigilator reads; “Health and education are a priority in Gombe State.”
“A final year student of GSSS Gombe tested positive for COVID-19 and was isolated yesterday (Sunday), today (Monday), he is writing Mathematics SSCE while ensuring his invigilator is well protected.”
See the tweet below;
Reacting to the development, the Director-General, Nigerian Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu who was also tagged in the post commended the state government for a good work.
He tweeted; “Good work by our colleagues in #Gombe.
“There are many exceptional colleagues, quietly pushing to make or country work. #Thankyou #keeppushing.”
That’s the bombshell news from Cadena COPE on Saturday which claims that the Ballon d’Or winner has issued a warning to the Barça hierarchy over his future.
The Blaugrana were on the end of their worst defeat in over 70 years on Friday as they went down 8-2 to Bayern Munich in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
That cataclysmic defeat will almost certainly see boss Quique Setien lose his job before the start of next season, but Messi is apparently wanting even bigger changes.
Cadena COPE say that the Argentine forward is furious with the club’s recruitment over the past five years and believes that the peak of his career has been wasted at Camp Nou.
Messi now wants something approaching a revolution behind the scenes, and if he doesn’t get what he wants, will walk away when his contract ends next summer.
Inter Miami, Inter Milan and Manchester City have all been linked with his signature.
Samuel Umtiti, Barcelona Defender Tested Positive For Coronavirus
Barcelona defender Samuel Umtiti has tested positive for coronavirus, but for their quarter-final in the Champions League with Bayern Munich he was not with the rest of the squad.
The Frenchman is currently injured and tested positive at Barcelona’s training ground on Thursday.
Umtiti is the second player to test positive from Barcelona’s squad away from their Champions League preparations after a player tested positive from Tuesday’s round of testing.
The players tested on Tuesday were: Pedri, Trincao, Matheus Fernandes, Jean-Clair Todibo, Moussa Wague, Carles Alena, Rafinha, Juan Miranda and Oriol Busquets.
Barcelona said in a statement: “After the PCR tests carried out on Thursday the first team player Samuel Umtiti has tested positive for Covid-19. The player is asymptomatic, is in good health and is isolating at home.
“The club has informed the relevant sporting and health authorities as well as tracing all the people who have had contact with the player so that they can undergo the corresponding PCR tests.”
ASUU Rejects Government ‘Taking Over’ Of Kano Institute
The Kano State University of Science and Technology ‘s Academic Staff Union of Universities has advised the state government not to take over its Daula Hospitality and Tourism Institute.
In a joint statement signed by the Union Chairman and Secretary, Muhammad Sani-Gaya and Murtala Muhammad respectively, it said the move would be inimical to the state ‘s educational development.
“ASUU expresses dismay on the Kano State Government decision regarding the taking over of the Hospitality and Tourism Institute (former Daula Hotel), contained in a letter dated Friday Nov. 15, 2019.
“This action is a breach of the university autonomy as enshrined in the University Law and the University (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Act 2003,” it said.
The Union said the university was running courses which include: Interim Joint Matriculation Board (IJMB); Pre-Degree, Diplomas in Tourism, Hospitality among others at the institute.
It added that the University Senate had also approved Part-Time Degree Programmes for 2020/2021 academic year as well as proposed Bsc Hospitality, Tourism and Transportation at the institute.
“The union call on the government to reverse the idea of commercialising facilities meant for public purposes especially institution of learning.“
In a reaction, Dr Mariya Mahmood-Bunkure, the state’s Commissioner for Higher Education, said the state government has not given final decision on the issue.
Mahmood-Bunkure, in an Short Message Service (SMS) to newsmen, said that: “I was with ASUU KUST Branch yesterday (Thursday) in my office. We had discussion on the matter.
“I told them what I know is that government has not given approval to any investor.
“And; we have learnt that the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council is going to meet with the Visitor of the institution. So, I think we should await the outcome of the meeting”.
