President Okonkwo, a Nigerian Twitter user, has taken to social media to share the story of a yogurt man who received gain for all the effort of his hard-work. The man shared photos of the beautiful moment.
The Twitter user revealed that a yogurt vendor who has been in the business for 30 years in Kaduna received a sum of N3 million from a customer.
According to Okonkwo, the customer who gave out the money to the yogurt vendor was one of the the yogurt seller's customers when he was a kid.
Man who sold yogurt for 30 years in Kaduna receives N3m from one of his customers Photo: Twitter Source: President Okonkwo
President Okonkwo revealed that the yogurt vendor who use to give children yogurt for free when they couldn't afford it is reaping the gain of his good deed.
He also noted that the man was always nice to children. He wrote: "He sold yogurt for 30 years in Kaduna and was always nice to young children and gave them free yogurt when they had no money.
His good deeds came back haunting him when one of his child customers, now grown, surprised him with a 3 million Naira Cheque as appreciation."
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) have explained the rationale behind the exclusion of John Obi Mikel from the Super Eagles' squad that will face Libya this month in AFCON qualifiers.
Super Eagles gaffer Gernot Rohr made the list available on Monday in which Mikel Obi's name was not included and many Nigerians have been reacting.
Mikel has not played for Nigeria since the end of the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia where Eagles were bundled out of the competition after losing their last Group game against Argentina.
"Obi Mikel has been excused because he is just recovering from injury in China and needs time to fully regain fitness."We expect him to be available for the November game against South Africa,'' Super Eagles spokesman Toyin Ibitoye told BBC.
Meanwhile, Libya are currently topping Group E in 2019 AFCON qualifiers with four points followed by South Africa on the same point. Nigeria are third on the log with three points.
Nigeria lost their first game at home against South Africa, but they redeemed themselves in their second game against Seychelles getting the three points.
Image copyrightUNImage captionDr Strickland shared the prize for discoveries in laser physics
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years.
Donna Strickland, from Canada, is only the third woman winner of the award, along with Marie Curie, who won in 1903, and Maria Goeppert-Mayer, who was awarded the prize in 1963.
Dr Strickland shares this year's prize with Arthur Ashkin, from the US, and Gerard Mourou, from France.
It recognises their discoveries in the field of laser physics.
Dr Ashkin developed a laser technique described as optical tweezers, which is used to study biological systems.
Drs Mourou and Strickland paved the way for the shortest and most intense laser pulses ever created.
The last woman to win the physics prize, German-born American physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer, took the prize for her discoveries about the nuclei of atoms.
Polish-born physicist Marie Curie shared the 1903 award with her husband Pierre Curie and Antoine Henri Becquerel for their research into radioactivity.
The award is worth a total of nine million Swedish kronor (£770,686; $998,618).
Reacting to her win, Dr Strickland, who is based at the University of Waterloo in Canada, said: "First of all you have to think it's crazy, so that was my first thought. And you do always wonder if it's real.
"As far as sharing it with Gerard, of course he was my supervisor and mentor and he has taken CPA (Chirped Pulse Amplification) to great heights so he definitely deserves this award. And I'm so happy Art Ashkin also won."
She added: "I think that he made so many discoveries early on that other people have done great things with that it's fantastic that he is finally recognised."
Image copyrightSPLImage captionMourou and Strickland's technique has found several applications, including in laser eye surgery
Before Strickland and Mourou's pioneering work, the peak power of laser pulses was limited because, when cranked up to high intensities, they would destroy the material used for amplifying its energy.
To get round this, the researchers first stretched the laser pulses in time to reduce their peak power, then amplified them and finally compressed them.
When a laser pulse is compressed in time and becomes shorter, more light is packed into a small space. This dramatically increases the intensity of the pulse.
Strickland and Mourou's technique, called chirped pulse amplification (CPA), became standard for high intensity lasers. It also found a use in laser therapy targeting cancer and in the millions of corrective laser eye surgeries which are performed each year.
Arthur Ashkin realised an old dream in science fiction - using the radiation pressure of light to move physical objects. In doing so, he invented the optical tweezers that are today used to grab particles, atoms, viruses and living cells with their laser-based pincers.
Ashkin first worked on getting laser light to push small particles towards the centre of the beam and hold them there.
Then, in 1987, he used the tweezers to capture living bacteria without harming them. The technique is now used widely to study the machinery of life.
In a statement, the American Institute of Physics (AIP) offered its congratulations to all the winners, adding: "The countless applications made possible by their work, like laser eye surgery, high-power pettawat lasers, and the ability to trap and study individual viruses and bacteria, only promise to increase going forward.
"It is also a personal delight to see Dr Strickland break the 55-year hiatus since a woman has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, making this year's award all the more historic."
Previous winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics
Image copyrightS.OSSOKINE/A.BUONANNO (MPI GRAVITATIONAL PHYSICS)Image captionA computer simulation of gravitational waves radiating from two merging black holes
The Not Too Young To Run movement has kicked against the imposition of candidates under the guise of automatic tickets and consensus candidacy in political parties primary elections nationwide ahead of the 2019 polls.
In a statement sent on Monday, October 1, the movement expressed worry that the development will be a major threat to the participation of youth, women and persons with disability in politics.
According to the group, the imposition of candidates and issuance of automatic tickets reflect a lack of respect for democratic principles and norms, adding that it reduces the competitiveness of electoral politics in Nigeria.
The Not Too Young To Run movement therefore recommends that;
1. Parties should uphold the principles of transparency and accountability in the conduct of primary elections.
2. Parties must provide credible list of delegates and ensure party members are accessible to aspirants, observers and the media.
3. The venue of the primary elections must be made public to all aspirants and other stakeholders.
4. Late hour changes to delegate list and venue of party primaries should be avoided. Changes should be made only after due consultations with stakeholders especially aspirants and their agents.
5. Parties should provide leadership and demonstrate commitment to discourage vote buying as well as enforcing spending limits for campaigns and sanctioning members who use money or gift items to compromise delegates.
The movement urged all political parties to remain accountable to the commitments they made to uphold democratic primaries, warning that any form of imposition or irregularities in the primaries would attract political consequences.
“Any party that discards the youth, does so at its own peril,” the group warned.
The committee chairman for the APC gubernatorial primary in the state, Mathew Iduoriyekemwen said while announcing the result in Kaduna that, 33 votes were declared invalid.
Bukola Saraki, the Senate president and Yakubu Dogara, the speaker of the House of Representatives, are both absent at Eagle Square Abuja where the nation’s 58th Independence anniversary is being celebrated by dignitaries and many elder state men.
Those present at the parade are President Muhammadu Buhari and his vice, Yemi Osinbajo, Walter Onnoghen, the chief justice of Nigeria, and former head of state Yakubu Gowon, among many other top public figures.
The all-important national ceremony witness a parade of the nation’s military officials and a photo exhibition showing Nigerian history and an independence day dinner.
Efforts to speak with Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki's spokesperson, proved unsuccessful, the spokesperson of Dogara, Turaki Hassan, said he has no idea if his boss was invited to the event or why he is not attending.
Hassan, speaking with newsmen, said: “Actually, I am out of Abuja and I don’t know what is happening there.”
Saraki, in a statement signed by him, and sent to journalists expressed dismay over the decision by INEC to declare as "inconclusive" an election in which a candidate won the highest number of votes and fulfilled the condition for geographical spread.
