My 2017 Experience
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In 2017 I had many beautiful, good, bad, bitter and Ugly Experiences.
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I had great fun, beautiful Love, I was Loved and Cared for by family, And Few friends,
I made new friends, bond with lots of friends and had fun with them.
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Some Friends even stopped calling me on phone when they got married, And when I call them they don't answer my call
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Some friends  turned Frenemies
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I also lost alot of friends to the wicked hands of death, Some got tired of being my friend and unfriend me, I offended some and they got tired of me, many said am not caring, others said am too busy with my work that I don't have time for friends,
Although few friends stayed with me even when I devoted all my time to my work.
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I got into touble Severally while trying to solve peoples problems or Save Family members and Friends.
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I was Cheated Severally, Hurt, Lied to, Disappointed, Back Stabbed by Friends on different occasions, Deceived, those I took bullet for even played with my emotion.
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I've had to push through even when all odds were against me.
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I've had to look forward even when my past failure beckoned on me.
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I’ve put on the winning armour and have fought through.
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I’ve given to hope when the best option was to give up.
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I’ve been the strong me over the years and now it’s worth the decision!
I’ve been my own critics and my best of fans.
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I learnt alot of things in 2017.
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Like I said in I've seen the Good, the Bad, the Bitter and the Ugly side of Life  In 2017.
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Pls 2018 Be Nice

TO HEARING PEOPLE
This is how you communicate with Deaf and hard of hearing (HoH).

* If you want to talk with a deaf person or HoH at night make sure its in a well‐lit areas that is neither crowded nor dark.

* If you want to get our attention, tap our arm or shoulder or wave your hand. Never yell at our back or throw stones or touch our A**.

* If we are with an interpreter and you want to Speak to us, speak as if the interpreter is not there. Do not ask the interpreter to tell us this or that. Just face us and tell us what you want to say. The interpreter will do his/her work by interpreting whatever you speak or whatever question you ask.

* Maintain eye contact with us when you are speaking, not the interpreter.

* Do not interrupt us when we are signing. Wait until when we're done.

* Do not assume all deaf and hard of hearing (HoH) people read lips. Some can while others can't.

* do not yell while trying to talk. Don't assume that deaf or HoH people can hear you when you shout. Some can while others can't.

* When you yell at our back and we didn't respond, do not assume we are ignoring you. Its because we can't hear.

* Don't think that we need your help, no we don't. And do not force us to learn how to speak.

* Do not ask us stupid questions. For example. How Can deaf people drive? instead ask: can deaf people drive? or  how can deaf people fall in love?

* Don't try giving money to a deaf person you see coming to your shop or office. Stop assuming every deaf person or HoH you see come to beg.

WHO IS DISABLED?
YOU OR ME?
If you fail to see the potentials
In the person
But see only the person's Disability
Then who is blind?
YOU!
If you cannot hear
Your brothers cry
And justice
Then who is deaf?
YOU!
If you cannot stand up
For the right
Of all people
Then who is crippled?
YOU!
if you cannot have
The patience
The tolerance
And understanding
For individual differences
Then who is mentally-handicapped?
YOU!
YOUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS
PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES
IS THE BIGGEST
HANDICAP.
CHANGE YOUR ATTITUDE!!!

❕A man rented a house and moved in with his family.

❕After 2 years, the rent was increased from #400,000 to #500,000.

❕He didn't complain because he liked the house.

❕The following year, he couldn't come up with the money and the agent was on his neck.

❕The wife saw what the husband was going through and decided to help. She lent the money to her husband to pay the rent.

❕The husband was indeed very happy that his wife was so helpful and he paid back later.

❕Two years later, the house rent increased to #700,000 and the man became upset. So he begged the agent to introduce him to the landlord so that he could plead with him but the agent bluntly refused.

❕The man decided to do an underground investigation to uncover who the landlord is.

❕What he found out really shocked him 😳

❗The house belonged to his wife.

The question is;

❗What will you do if you were the man⁉

❕❗Be sincere with your comment❔❓

A SPEECH PRESENTED BY MR EROMOSELE KINGSLEY , SECRETARY GENERAL ON BEHALF OF MR OZAH STEPHEN,CHAIRMAN,EDO STATE ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF DURING A COURTESY VISIT TO THE NIGERIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION (DOCTORS HOUSE), BENIN -CITY,EDO STATE ON 23RD MARCH,2017
The President Nigerian Medical Association,Medical Doctors ,Sign Language Interpreters ,my brothers and sisters in the silent world ,ladies and gentlemen ,on behalf of Edo State Deaf Community,we say good morning to you all. We heartily welcome you all to this first ever interactive session between Nigerian Medical Association and Edo Deaf Community.
Your being with us today despite your tight schedule is a great assurance of hope and the willingness of Nigerian Medical Association commitment to partner with us,rub mind together to ease accessibility of health care delivery services for the Deaf people in Edo State.
Edo State association of the Deaf is a Non-governmental organization saddled with the responsibility of championing the cause of Deaf people in Edo State. Our association is registered with Edo State Ministry of Women Affairs &Social development,we are also affiliated to Nigerian National Association of the Deaf(NNAD),National Headquarters and World Federation of the Deaf (WFD). Our slogan all around the world is "NOTHING ABOUT THE DEAF ,WITHOUT THE DEAF FULLY INVOLVES". This slogans gives Government of nations that are UN member countries the right to work with Deaf association in meeting the needs of the Deaf.
As an Association in Edo State,the affairs of the Deaf is directly under our purview and we work in conjunction with our National body and similar organizations
With the sole aim of improving the lives and rights of the Deaf to function effectively in all spheres of life be it in education,employment opportunities,w
elfare,vocational training,advocacy and actualization of Deaf rights among others. One of such organizations is the Association of Sign Language Interpreters of Nigeria(ASLIN)which is registered professional body of all Sign Language Interpreters in Nigeria. It has members drawn from the 36 States of the federation including Federal Capital Territory. It is also affiliated to the Association of Sign Language Interpreters(WASLI)which is the world body. This body is saddled with the responsibility of bridging the gap between Deaf and the hearing world through interpretation. Deafness being a hidden disability is shrouded in mystery and is the most neglected of all clusters of people living with disability.
With the right approach and training,we the Deaf can perform excellently in all spheres of life. The only thing a Deaf person cannot do is to "HEAR".
We humbly appeal to Nigerian Medical Association to partner with us whenever the need arise and to give health talk on"INFERTILITY" during our forth coming MARRIAGE SEMINAR. The date of the seminar will be communicated later,the seminar becomes necessary because of the incidence of high rate of marriage brake up ,violence and battery a result of childlessness and health issues ravaging the Deaf community.
Again,we seize this opportunity to appeal to Nigerian Medical Association to help liase with those in authority to facilitate the employment of Sign Language Interpreters in Government hospitals and during health talk in electronic media . People die as a result of lack of knowledge. There was the case of a Deaf woman who died as a result of drug overdose. This woman was sick but due to ignorance of side effects of drugs and communication constraints,she felt that by taking much of the drugs,she will get well quickly but this was a fatal mistakes that send her to the journey of no return. There was also the case of a Deaf woman that almost separated from her husband until the intervention of an interpreter. She was diagnose to have contacted veneral disease ,she approached many hospitals,her relatives sent her drugs from abroad, when there was no improvement,she thought that her husband might have transmitted the disease to her. It was when an interpreter accompany her to hospital that it was discovered it was menopausal sign. Today she lives happily with her husband.
Once more ,the employment of both skilled and unskilled unemployed Deaf people to help address high unemployment rates and poverty among the Deaf.
Making medical heath care services delivery assessible to the Deaf is a responsibility of us all which can be actualized with the assistance of Sign Language Interpreters.
Once more ,we thank you all immensely for granting us audience.
God bless Nigerian Medical Association,
God bless Edo State Association of the Deaf,
God bless Association of Sign Language Interpreters,
God bless Edo State,
God bless Federal Republic of Nigeria
Thanks you.
Eromosele Kingsley,
Secretary General.

Women should learn how to respect their husband who help them...not to look down on them when they start making money...this is the result where they end up..

The men who often sponsored their wives to nursing schools for which tloo

women earn fat salaries after graduation cause ruckus between the couple which often end in divorce resulting into husbands giving up their life property and earnings according to the US law. Vanguard investigations revealed that the pain of losing their life earned money and property built over the years, sparked the men to kill their wives than watch them enjoy the luxury of alimony. One of the Nigerian men, Mr David Ochola who killed his 28 years old wife, Mrs Priscilla Ochola, in Hennepin, Minnesota pulled a call through to the U.S. Emergency Number, 911 after he shot his wife dead. He admitted it to the US Police, “Yes, I have killed the woman that messed up my life; the woman that has destroyed me. I am at Shalom West. My name is David and I am all yours.” The 50-years old Ochola husband was said to have gotten tired of being “disrespected” by his wife, a Registered Nurse (RN) whom he had brought from Nigeria and sponsored through nursing school only to have her make much more than him in salary, a situation which led to Mrs. Ochola “coming and going as she chose without regard for her husband.” The couple had two children – four years old boy and a three year old girl. In Texas, Mr Babajide Okeowo had been separated from his wife, Funke Okeowo, with whom he resided at their Dallas home. Upon the divorce, the husband lost the house to his wife, along with most of the contents therein, as is usually the tradition in the U.S. Divorces where the couple still has underage children. Okeowo, 48, divorced his wife because not long after she became an RN and made more money than him, she “took control” of the family finances and “controlled” her husband’s expenditure and movement. The husband could no longer make any meaningful contribution to his family back in Nigeria unless the wife “approved” it. He could not go out without her permission. Frustrated that his formerly malleable wife had suddenly become such a “terror” to him to the point of asking for in court and getting virtually everything for which he had worked since coming to the US thirty years prior, the husband got in his vehicle and drove a few hundred miles to Dallas to settle the scores. He found her in her SUV, adorned in full Nigerian attire on her way to the birthday bash organized in her honor. She had turned 46 on that day. Mr. Okeowo fired several rounds into his wife’s torso while she sat at the steering wheel, mercilessly killing her in broad daylight. Also in Dallas (they sure need anger management classes in Dallas), Moses Egharevba, 45, did not even bother to get a gun. The husband of Grace Egharevba, 35, bludgeoned her to death with a sledge hammer while their seven year old daughter watched and screamed for peace. Mrs. Egharevba’s “sin” was that she became an RN and started to make more money than her husband. This led to her “financial liberation” from a supposedly tight-fisted husband who had not only brought her from Nigeria, but had also funded her nursing school education. Like Moses Egharevba, Christopher Ndubuisi of Garland, Texas, (these Texas people!) also did not bother to get a gun. He crept into the bedroom where his wife, Christiana, was sleeping and, with several blows of the sledge hammer, crushed her head. Two years before Christiana was killed, her mother, who had been visiting from Nigeria, was found dead in the bathtub under circumstances believed to be suspicious. Of course, Christiana was a RN whose income dwarfed that of her husband as soon as she graduated from nursing school. The husband believed that his role as a husband and head of the household had been usurped by his wife. Mr. Ndubuisi’s several entreaties to his wife’s family to intercede and bring Christiana back under his control had all failed. If the circumstances surrounding the death of Christiana’s mother were suspicious, those surrounding the death of a Tennessee woman’s mother were not. Agnes Nwodo, an RN, lived in squalor before her husband, Godfrey Nwodo, rescued her and brought her to the US. He enrolled her in nursing school right away. Upon qualifying as a RN, Mrs. Nwodo assumed “full control” of the household. She brought her mother to live with them against her husband’s wishes. Mrs. Nwodo quickly familiarized herself with US Family Laws and took full advantage of them. Each time the couple argued, the police forced the husband to leave the house whether he had a place to sleep or not. On many occasions, Mr. Nwodo spent days in police cells. Upon divorcing his wife, Mr. Nwodo lost to his wife, the house he had owned for almost 20 years before he married her. He also lost custody of their three children to her, with the court awarding him only periodic visitation rights. Even seeing the children during visitation was always a hassle as the wife would “arrive late at the neutral meeting place and leave early with impunity.” Mr. Nwodo endured so many embarrassing moments from his wife and her mother until he could take it no more. One day, he bought himself a shotgun and killed both his wife and her mother. Caleb Onwudike’s wife, Chinyere Onwudike, 36, became a RN and no longer saw the need to be controlled by her husband. Mr. Onwudike, 41, worked two jobs to send his wife to her dream school upon bringing her to the US from Nigeria. After four years, she qualified as an RN. Once she started to make more money than her husband, she began to “call the shots” at home. She “overruled” her husband on the size and cost of the house they purchased in Burtonsville, Maryland. She began to build a house solely in her name in their native Umuahia town of Abia State, Nigeria, without her husband’s input whatsoever. Mrs. Onwudike came and went “as she liked,” within the US and outside the US. In fact, she once travelled to Nigeria for three weeks “without her husband’s permission” to lavishly bury her father, despite her husband’s protestations that they had better things to do with the money. Mrs. Onwudike let her husband know that this was mostly her money and she would spend it however she wanted. Through her hard work, she had risen to a managerial position at the medical center where she worked. Upon her return from burying her father, her husband got one of her kitchen knives and carved her up like a Thanksgiving turkey inside their home on New Year’s Day. Death is death, no matter how it comes. But the goriest of these maniacal killings is probably the one that happened here in Los Angeles, California. Joseph Mbu, 50, was tired of his RN wife’s “serial disrespect” of him. The disrespect began as soon as she became a RN. Gloria Mbu, 40, had once told her husband he must be “smoking crack cocaine” if he thought he could tell her what to do with her money now that she made more money than him. Before she became a RN, Mr. Mbu had been very strict with family finances and was borderline dictatorial in his dealings with Mrs. Mbu. However, Mrs. Mbu learned the American system and would no longer allow any man to “put her down.” When Joseph Mbu could not take it anymore, he subdued his wife one day, tied her to his vehicle and dragged her on paved roads all around Los Angeles until her head split in many pieces.

Good news and congratulations girl.

Rivers university student expelled for ‘speech and hearing challenges’ returns to school
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The student who was expelled by the Rivers State University of Science and Technology, in 2015, for having “speech and hearing challenges” has been allowed to return to school.

Jane Ottah, 28, who dragged the university before a Rivers State High Court for expelling her over claims that she had disabilities, agreed to an out-of-court settlement with the University on Tuesday.
Ms. Ottah had demanded the university to pay her N20 million as damages in addition to providing the necessary support services and facilities to aid her learning. She also asked the court for a perpetual injunction restraining the university or their agents from discriminating against her in any way.

“I won the case, I’m going back to school,” Ms. Ottah informed PREMIUM TIMES in a Whatsapp message minutes after the court’s decision.
Rotimi Oguneso, the lawyer who took up the case after it was reported by PREMIUM TIMES, confirmed that the matter had been settled.
“We filed terms of settlement in court and same was adopted, the court recognized it as a settlement and it’s binding on all parties,” Mr. Oguneso, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, said over the phone on Wednesday.
“So the university will take her back, she’s resuming in the next academic session.”
Blessing Didia, the school’s Vice Chancellor, also confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES that they had agreed to settle out of court, but insisted that Ms. Ottah “was never dismissed ab initio”.


Benedict Ottah, the student’s father, said they agreed to the University’s plea to settle out of court because he wanted his daughter back in school
“We were in court on the 19th of February, the first sitting, their (university) lawyer pleaded for settling out of court,” Mr. Ottah told PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday.

“Then, on the 11th of April, Rotimi (Oguneso) and Femi Falana met them, they agreed on that settlement, not on monetary basis but on educational basis that my daughter shoul resume back to school this September.”
While expressing gratitude to PREMIUM TIMES, Mr. Ottah said the school agreed to assist his daughter settle back in school, as well as carry forward the school fees paid and registrations done in 2014 to September this year.
“She will not be victimized again,” he said.
“The issue is, I didn’t go for monetary compensation, I just forgot about that, let my daughter resume her school.”

PREMIUM TIMES had, in November last year, reported how the University handed a letter of expulsion to Ms. Ottah after it claimed it had observed that she was “medically challenged and have hearing and speech difficulties.”
“Since the University does not have special communication facilities, the Vice-Chancellor has directed that you be de-registered on health grounds,” the school registrar’s letter to Ms. Ottah read.

“I am in the circumstance, directed to inform you that you have been de-registered on health grounds with immediate effect. You are therefore advised to hand over all University property(ies) in your possession to your Head of Department and thereafter leave the campus.”

The letter was dated 30th January, 2015.
The University’s action was widely condemned by lawyers and human rights activists who described it as “a crude treatment” for a person with disability.
Ms. Ottah, who was in her first year in the Department of Educational Foundation, was writing the semester’s examination when she received the letter.
She was admitted into the university in September 2014.

Before securing admission, Ms. Ottah had passed her West African Examination Council (WAEC) examination with three distinctions and five credits; scored 205 in the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exam; and passed the university’s post-UME test.


Ms. Ottah described the out-of-court settlement with the university as “not bad”.
“Half bread is better than none.
“My education is very important to me, and I thank Jehovah Ebenezer, the tear wiper has done it for me.”