RAPE DRAMA IN THE MIDDLE OF KOGI ELECTION

When US based blogger and popular twitter personality @Empress Sugabelly had her private messages to a friend exposed by another twitter user, there was a lot of buzz on social media because not only were the contents of the messages very disturbing in it's graphic description of the continuous sexual violation she was allegedly subjected to by the sons and friends of the late governor of Kogi state, Abubabakar Audu, it also coincided with the death of latter.

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HOW A PEASANT FARMER BUILT THE HYUNDAI BRAND

The Hyundai line of vehicles just like Benz, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, and Honda are now very common in Nigeria, hardly would you count 10 vehicles on the road and not notice a Hyundai brand among them. Before now there is the phobia for vehicles whose maker or name is sparsely unknown, the common brand of Automobiles seen on Nigerian roads remains the Toyota, Honda, Benz, VW, Nissan and the moribund Peugeot cars. Back in 1986, the first Hyundai was introduced to the market and the company’s line-up has changed spectacularly since that time. Hyundai produces much more than cars; in fact, by the end of the last century Hyundai became one of the largest companies in the world. Let’s take a look at this Korean based multinational corporation and the company behind Hyundai vehicles.

It was back in 1946, just one year removed from Imperial Japan’s occupation of the Korean peninsula, that a new company was birthed in what is now known as South Korea. Hyundai Motor Industrial Company was founded by Chung Ju-yung, a child of northern Korean peasant farmers, and in 1947 Ju-yung launched a second company, Hyundai Civil Industries. Self educated, Ju-yung transformed the entire Korean economy with the tight control he exerted over his Hyundai companies.

The first Hyundai business was tasked with building automobiles while the second Hyundai Company concentrated on construction. Indeed, much of modern South Korea’s infrastructure was built by Hyundai in the period after the cessation of the Korean War in 1953 and on through the 1970s. Dams, an expressway, a shipbuilding yard, and a nuclear power plant were all built by Hyundai Civil Industries, while Hyundai Motors produced cars made primarily from Japanese components. Hyundai’s influence stretched far beyond the Korean peninsula as the company won

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