Meet Zuriel Oduwole: See Pictures of the 11 Years Old Girl Who Interviews World Leaders

        Zuriel and Chikwendu Chikwendu of ceeceereports at the SMC, Lagos

                               Zuriel, her sister and former presidents of Nigeria and Ghana

Read About The 11 Year Old Zuriel Oduwole

At the age of 10, Miss Zuriel Oduwole who lives in California, United States had already made history as the youngest person to be interviewed by Forbes. She was also an invited guest to the 50th anniversary of the African Union. Her forte lies on interviewing leading African and world personalities, including eight African Presidents and Africa’s richest person Aliko Dangote. She had also interviewed celebrity tennis super stars – Venus and Serena Williams. 

                             

                                                Zuriel with president of South Sudan

While her stock continues to rise, Tanzania’s First Lady recently appointed the Nigerian girl as an ambassador when she came to the country to launch her Dream Up, Speak Up, Stand Up project aimed at inspiring and encouraging the African girl child. So she is now an ambassador for Tanzania’s largest foundation focused on gender issue - Wanawake na Maendeleo Foundation (WAMA) of which the First Lady is the founding patron. While in Dar Es Salaam also, she had attended the United Nations UNFPA event focused on reducing the incidence of child marriage in Tanzania. The First Lady Mrs. Kikwete had commended Zuriel for her leadership at such a tender age, and for bringing issues of girl child education to several African leaders, before formally appointing Zuriel an ambassador. 

Zuriel with President Jonathan

She had conducted interviews with world leaders such as Rev Jesse Jackson, Liberian President, Kenyan President, Tanzanian President, Cape Verde President, South Sudan President, President Jerry Rawlings, Mauritius President, Malawi President and our own President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. During the interview sessions, they covered a wide variety of topics from the UN Millennium Development Goals, to the Education of Africa’s children. Remarkably, Zuriel was just 9 years old when she embarked on the mission to interview the enigmatic President Jerry Rawlings of Ghana for the purpose of her school assignment, on documenting a successful revolution anywhere in the world on film format. It was in the process of her research that she found out about the challenges of girl child education and the obstacles to girl child development in Africa, and took it up – thus her Dream up, Speak up, Stand up.

                           Zuriel with civil rights leader Rev Jesse Jackson of USA

The incredibly gifted and talented Nigerian girl had launched her Dream Up, Speak Up, Stand Up project now in several African countries including Nigeria. In fact her first leg was in Nigeria during which she visited and addressed the post-graduate students and faculty of School of Media and Communication, Pan-Atlantic University. It was her notable accomplishments that led to her being interviewed for a full feature by Forbes Magazine, thus making her the youngest person in the world to be accorded that privilege.

                                         Zuriel, her sister and dad with cc

She is now focused on the Caribbean region next, and has started meeting with leaders from the region starting with Jamaica. There, she had already met with the leader of the largest island country in the Caribbean and the only female head of government in the CARICOM region, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller of Jamaica. After an intimate and detailed interview, the prime Minister was dazzled by Zuriel’s questions, poise, and ability to focus on issues at high level. Miller lost the plot, broke protocol to hug, kiss, pray for, and then carried Zuriel on the lap for the formal photograph before the press.  She then declared: “she is our brilliant child from Africa!”

Zuriel with president of Liberia

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Major Hamza al-Mustahpa: The Triumphal Entry Into Kano

The grandmother of late General Sani Abacha would probably be the eldest stateswoman in the horde anxious to receive Major Mamza al-Mustapha today in Kano!

The atmosphere is full of excitement, nearly reminiscent of the return of Yoruba exiles including Wole Soyinka to the West at the transition to our new democracy in 1998 under Gen Abubakar.

Since that same time Major Hamza Al-Mustapha, former Chief Security Officer (CSO) to the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha was hounded into detention to answer to charges that he murdered Kudirat Abiola, wife of Moshood, who himself was then in detention for declaring himself president.

Now, after a 14 year sojourn behind prison doors, the feared Major has now forgiven his enemies as he closes in on a red carpet entrance to home state Kano.

“There was conscious effort by those behind my travail to paint me black before the whole world, but my gratitude goes to God for allowing truth to triumph over falsehood.”

“The last 14 years of my life was spent between solitary confinement that lasted five years and three months and detention in about 32 facilities located within the northern and southern parts of the country.”

The charismatic but fierce former CSO said his survival during the time was made possible by "toughened" "professional calling and my belief as a Muslim to persevere in whatever condition one finds himself" "ordained by God to test my will and trust in Him."

He therefore excused those claiming "to have played a role" in his incarceration saying they "must have done that out of ignorance." "I bear no grudge against them."

He concluded but not without putting in the usual word for those he left behind in his prison sojourn. “I have learnt a lot of lessons from my incarceration, and from what I have seen at the maximum prison, there is a number of people who are being detained illegally across the  prisons and those in position of authority must do something to address the issue.”

He then shut out those reading his lips for signs of political ambition, as well as those itching to find out the foxy major's next move. “I am still a major in the Nigerian Army, and cannot be dragged into politics."  "My major preoccupation now is how to reunite with my profession!”

However, as the ruthless major dazzles his media audience, Kano state is agog with activities lined only for a folk hero. The radio market that traditionally booms in the north has now notched up a bit as scramble to get the latest about their son becomes more important than a plate of tuwoshinkafa.

The loudest of the jingles would be the one sent out by Abacha's eldest son Muhammad, running virtually on every radio stations in Kano. The Abachas are calling on Kano people to come out in droves to accord a folk hero, Major Hamza al-Mustapha a bragging welcome.

It is already billed that the wife of the late former Head of State, Maryam Sani Abacha, would lead the entire Abacha family to receive him today at the Malam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.

There is also nearly a concluded networking of Mustapha's supporters and well-wishers to hold a rally in his honour. Wow!

It is like Christmas in July up Kano as newfound boisterousness ginger the city of an estimated seven million people. All manner of debates traverse the city with some thumping their chaste for finally defeating the Yoruba. Others thanking President Jonathan for the release of their son. There are also those others who ascribe al-Mustapha's release to his utter invincibility.

A visit to al-Mustapha’s residence at Lamido Crescent, Nassarawa GRA shows hyper activity unknown to it as large number of people troop in and out of the house. Truckloads of cows, rams and other features of merriment is a major salivating occurrence now.

Huge plasters and posters of the late Abacha and al-Mustapha already dot strategic sites in a way that immensely dwarfs those of electioneering campaigns.

Major Hamza al-Mustapha is the 'in thing' now, and a bile taste left in the mouth of the Yoruba who are still too dazed to utter any reactions.

 

Then the salient question: "who then killed Kudirat?"

War Crimes!!! Boko Haram Leader ‘Supports’ Yobe School Massacre!

In a move negating the so-called ceasefire agreement signed by Boko Haram, the head of the Islamists said he supported the July 6 mass killing of 42 people in a school in Yobe , though he did not accept responsibility for the attack according to a video obtained by AFP.

“We fully support the attack on this Western education school in Mamudo,” Abubakar Shekau accepted.

The 10 minute video where he spoke mainly in Hausa language, Shekau is shown kneeling on a mat with a Kalashnikov resting on his left shoulder.

On the day of the last school attack, witnesses said that assailants rounded up students and staff in a dormitory, then threw explosives inside and opened fire, killing almost all the students.

Shekau also voiced similar support for the earlier Damaturu attack on June 16 where gunmen opened fire on a secondary school in the Yobe capital. In this attack they killed seven students, two teachers and injured others. To this the terrorist group leader claimed that “Western education schools” is a “plot against Islam”. 

However, the military claim significant advantage over Boko Haram since two months offensive authorised by the state of emergency declaration started. Yobe state falls under the area placed under emergency rule and has generally seen a curtailment of the sects deadly attacks.

Shekau message further rubbished reports of ceasefire negotiations with the government as claimed by a federal cabinet minister and head of amnesty panel Kabiru Tanimu Turaki. The Special Duties minister had said he was in negotiation with Shekau's 'second in command' and that a ceasefire was in the offing.

“The claim that we have entered into a truce with the government of Nigeria is not true,” the wanted US designated terrorist Islamist leader said. “We don’t know Kabiru Turaki. We have never spoken with him. He is lying,” Shekau added whose group is fighting to create an Islamic state in Nigeria .

The United States holds out a large bounty on Shekau's head for an insurgency that has cost over 4000 lives since 2009.