News that confirms that another Nollywood veteran,
who is well known as Lekan Lekinson in the
Yoruba movie industry is dead.
Lekan Lekinson was reported dead yesterday. We
confirmed that he died after his long battle with
diabetes.
Lekan Lekinson won the hearts of many movie
lovers, especially in the Yoruba movie circle,
where he acted as a fraudsters and also with his
way he calls names of big cities of the world in
other to convince his potential victims with the
aim to dupe them.
This is the second death recorded in 2012 that is
just less than 25 days completed. Just last week,
David Ihezie was reported after suffering from
Arthritis. May his soul rest in peace. Amen
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Saturday, January 28, 2012
Nollywood veteran Lekan Lekinson is dead
Friday, January 27, 2012
Gun men Kill 15, Burn Bodies In Zamfara
Gunmen have killed 15 village traders returning
from a market at night and set their bodies ablaze
in northern Nigeria's Zamfara state, a local police
chief said on Friday.
"Gunmen, suspected to be armed robbers,
attacked some local traders on their way back from
a market in neighbouring Katsina state late
Thursday," Zamfara state police commissioner
Tambrai Yabo told AFP.
"The armed robbers waylaid the traders travelling
back in an open truck and opened fire on them.
They then loaded the truck with 14 bodies and
burnt them," said Yabo, adding that a 15th victim
had died in hospital.
Villagers said around 100 robbers came out of the
bush and forced the truck to stop. The attack
occurred near a village that is close to the town of
Birnin Magaji in Zamfara state, which borders Niger.
Armed robberies have been on the rise in Zamfara
in recent months.
In October, marauding bandits combed a village in
Lingyado and killed 19 people in response to an
attack on a gang of robbers by local vigilantes,
residents said.
In December, four policemen and two children from
one family were killed by armed men in Dansadau
village.
Zamfara is around 350 kilometres west of Kano city,
where Islamist sect Boko Haram killed 185 people in
a wave of gun and bomb attacks a week ago.
ASUU STRIKE UPDATE: ASUU NEC have agreed to meet on the31st January 2012
Here is the Latest and Current News about ASUU,
that the ASUU NEC have agreed to meet on the
31st January 2012 to continue their deliberation
to discontinue the strike. This information was
confirmed yesterday at twitter handle of ASUU
Nigeria- here- we a representative of the body
tweeted "ASUU NEC meeting date is
Tuesday, 31st January, 2012".
Lets hope that this time they will not deliberate,
but call- off the strike so all the students can go
back to school.
We will inform you firsthand the outcome the
ASUU meeting to be hold on the 31th January
2012.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Boko Haram threatens to attack NLC over subsidy•Asks leadership to resign •We are analysing thegenuineness of the letter —NLC •Police stationbombed outside Kano •158 Boko Haram suspectsarrested •Police engage man in 4-hr shootout in Kano
THE Islamic sect, Boko Haram has threatened the
leadership of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) over
its perceived role in the fuel subsidy removal issue,
blaming it for only forcing the Federal Government to
reduce the price of petrol to N97 per litre rather
than a total reversal to N65 as earlier demanded by
labour.
A letter purportedly written by the sect was sent to
the NLC through e-mail, on Tuesday, threatening the
labour leaders to resign. It also threatened to attack
the Labour House.
Though the letter was not made available to the media
as of press time on Tuesday, a source at the Labour
House confirmed to our correspondent that a mail was
sent to the NLC by a group by that name.
But the source stated that the leadership of the
congress was trying to be sure if the letter really came
from the real Boko Haram group or not.
He, however, confirmed that the security operatives
had been handed the letter to analyse it and establish
its genuineness.
The source also said that the leadership of the
congress did not want to make the issue a media one at
present until it was fully analysed and confirmed that
the sect was responsible for it.
“It is true that we received a mail from a group, which
called itself by that name, but the letter is with the
security. We are trying to analyse if it is genuine or not.
We did not want to make it a media issue until we
analyse it,” the source said last night.
Meanwhile, one Uzairu Abba Abdullahi, 32 years-old, a
Mass Communications degree holder who allegedly
engaged a security officer in a shootout was in the
early hours of Tuesday along his wife killed in Hotoro
quarters of Kano city.
According to investigation gathered by the Nigerian
Tribune, while the security operatives reached his
house, the late Uzairu allegedly opened fire in a panic
move aimed at scaring the security personnel.
Sensing danger, the operatives returned fire which
lasted several minutes and, as a result of cross fire
that lasted for hours, Uzairu (32) and his wife lost
their lives.
Speaking with reporters, a cousin of the deceased,
Alhaji Ali Abdu-llahi, told journalists that it was true
that his brother and his wife were killed at their Hotoro
residence.
Alhaji Ali said the late Uzairu had been a businessman
since he left Bayero University, Kano, in 2002 with a
degree in Mass Communications, adding that all efforts
to recover his corpse and that of his wife for burial
from all hospitals visited were unsuccessful.
However, at the time of filing this report, it was not
clear reason for exchange of gun fire between him and
the security operatives.
Efforts to get the comment of the police on the issue
were unsuccessful, though a source, who preferred
anonymity, informed newsmen that the security
agencies were allegedly working on information that the
deceased was a suspect.
However, Kano State Commissioner of Police, Ibrahim
Idris, told journalists on Tuesday afternoon that a
“sister agency” carried out the attack on the house.
In another development, the police, on Tuesday,
showed journalists the explosives used by the Boko
Haram sect during its attack in Kano on Friday and
acknowledged some gunmen wore uniforms resembling
para-military police and soldiers.
The police said they found 10 unexploded car bombs
and hundreds of small improvised explosive devices
after the attack on Friday.
Meanwhile, security forces arrested 158 suspected
members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in an early
morning raids in Kano on Tuesday.
Also, a police station on the outskirts of Kano, Feika
Police Station, was reportedly bombed.
Though nobody died in the incident, it was reported
that a car and two motorcycles were destroyed.
I'm pregnant with my dad's baby and we are so in love
The pair were pictured smiling and hugging each other
under the headline "I'm pregnant with my dad's baby and
we are so in love."
If that isn't splash material in a popular newspaper I really
don't know what is.
It was rightly billed as a world exclusive on the front page
of the paper's Irish edition, headlined "I'm having Daddy's
baby."
But why was it not given the same treatment in the British
edition?
For the record, it tells how a Dublin man, Garry Ryan, was
18 when his girlfriend fell pregnant. Her family wouldn't let
them marry, so he went off to the States and never saw
the daughter.
The girl, Penny Lawrence, grew up and after her mother's
death she set out to find her missing father.
When they eventually met, reports The Sun's Dulcie
Pearce, they "both felt an immediate sexual attraction."
She continues: "Within days they began an incestuous -
and illegal - affair, though they each claim to be suffering
from the psychological condition Genetic Sexual
Attraction or GSA."
Penny is 28 and Garry is 46, and they live as a couple. She
is quoted as saying: "I'm in love with Garry and desperately
want his baby. But we have agreed that if my three-
month scan shows a birth defect, we will terminate the
pregnancy."
Well, in my day, that would have made it on to the front
page. It's a classic example of a story that is bound to get
everyone talking.
N1.76trn Was Paid As Subsidy For 2011 – CBN
subsidy for the year 2011, the Central Bank of NIgeria, CBN
revealed Tuesday at the on-going adhoc committee probe on
fuel subsidy regime monitoring.
Deputy Governor of the apex bank Mr Kingsley Moghalu who
represented the CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi said
"the total amount paid for fuel subsidy alone in 2011 was
N1.76trn.
According to him, the apex bank plays limited role in fuel
subsidy management. "What it does is to ensure monetary
and price stability."
He said, the Petroleum Stability Fund, PSF, designed for the
stability of petroleum prices has its account domiciled in the
CBN and operated by the Petroleum, Products Pricing
Regulatory Agency, PPPRA.
Moghalu explained further that the "account was opened on
December 15, 2001 and credited with N673.85billion and
withdrew N666billion leaving a balance of N6.257billion.
Also, the Deputy Governor revealed that the Excess Crude
Account is domiciled in CBN and operated by the Accountant
General of the Federation, AGF which had a credit balance of
N2.562,780trn between September 25 2007 and January
2012 .
He said as at January 17 this year, the Excess crude balance
was N19,261bn "and is pertinent to note that CBN is not
involved in the payment of the subsidy. "
It was also noted that subsidy payment went up 8fold in
2009 totalling over 110percent and by October, 2011 it hit
over 500percent.
Group Managing Director, Nigerian Nationa Petroleum
Corporation, NNPC, Austin Oniwon at the House Ad hoc
Committee probe on fuel subsidy regime at the National
Assembly, Abuja, Tuesday. Photo: Gbemiga Olamikan.
He said this led to a high demand for foreign exchange which
made the apex bank to set up a special foreign exchange
audit to determine the veracity of the foreign exchange
demand.
"The audit is on-going and this really put so much pressure
on the forex market, in 2009 the total sales of foreign
exchange was 38billion dollars and 9billion dollars was sold
to the oil sector alone. "
Asked why there was a sudden increase in subsidy payment,
Mr Moghalu said, "like some senior officials had previously
observed here of likely manipulations of the subsidies as we
do not have concrete evidence because we are not EFCC. "
"Multiplicity of subsidiaries main factor that led to the high
demand of. foreign exchange and we felt that with so many
companies involved in the subsidy we felt the effect at our
foreign exchange window. "
"There will be problem if the dollar demand becomes so high
without touching our threshold if we go below the threshold
there will be problem.
Asked what was the threshold by the adhoc Committee
Chairman, Rep Farouk Lawal, Moghalu said the threshold is
30billion dollars.
When further queried on who authorises subsidy payment, he
explained that it was an issue meant solely for the fiscal
authorities
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ASUU Strike Update: FG, ASUU officials Conclude Negotiation
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of
Universities (ASUU) have concluded negotiations, with strong
indications that the on-going strike embarked upon by the
union since December 4, 2011 may be called off soon.
This was the outcome of a meeting coordinated by the
Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius
Anyim, with executive members of the union in Abuja.
It would be recalled that among the issues ASUU tabled
before the Federal Government was the agreement both
parties entered into in 2009. The agreement revolved
around improvement in universities funding, review of the
process of appointing Vice Chancellors, review of the
retirement age of lecturers to 70 years, among others.
It was also gathered that based on this the Senate last
week extended the retirement age of professors in Nigerian
universities from 65 to 70.
Meanwhile, the President of ASUU, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie,
who declined comments on the fresh term of agreement
with the Federal Government, said such information would be
tabled before the National Executive Council (NEC) of the
union before a definite decision would be taken concerning
the strike.
Awuzie gave this indication, shortly after the meeting which
lasted almost four hours, saying that the meeting was
fruitful and that the union’s NEC would be convened soonest
to decide on the next line of action for the union.
He was, however, not specific on the actual date ASUU’s
NEC would meet to decide on the strike.
He said: “We have discussed, we have looked at the issues
government has made its offer and we have to take it to our
principal, I will do everything possible to brief my principal
soonest.
“Government placed their card on the table and I have to
take it to my principal, they have done their best which is
what they believe is available by government, we are all
Nigerians, we did not go on strike just to destroy the system,
so we have listened to them, they have made their offer,
they have told us why they took certain decisions.
“We will take it to our principal, and of course you know this
is the first time we have been able to get this thing far
through the Secretary to the Government of the Federation
interceding. So we are going to take it to our principal and I
want to assure you that we meet with our principal
soonest.”
Speaking to journalists, the Minister of Education, Prof.
Ruqayyatu Rufa’i, who was part of the deliberations, also
gave a hint to an early resolution of the impasse.
She said: “As mentioned by the President of ASUU, we have
just concluded our discussion with them, the series of
meetings we had and as he said they are going back to have
their NEC meeting and its only after that meeting that we
hear their outcome.
“We are very hopeful that the strike will be called off soon,
that’s one thing we saw after this meeting but as it stands
now, we cannot say whether they are calling it off
immediately, but we are very hopeful that they will call off
the strike which will depend on the outcome of their NEC
meeting.”
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
ASUU STRKE UPDATE
Universities (ASUU) will today conclude talks on the ongoing
nationwide strike by the union as the negotiation between
the two team was inconclusive yesterday in Abuja .
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),
Senator Anyim Pius Ayim, had led the Federal Government
delegation while the ASUU team was led by its President,
Prof Ugochukwu Awuzie.
Speaking to journalists after over three hours of negotiation,
Awuzie said, "We have had deliberations, you know those of
you who were here earlier will know that we have been here
for more than three hours. We have looked at the issues. We
have made some progress. We are likely to continue very
early tomorrow morning where we will finish. When we
finish, we will make a statement.
When asked whether the strike would be called off, the
ASUU boss said that "It is not over but the issue will be
resolved very soon".
Awuzie further expressed satisfaction over the level of
Federal Government's commitment to the contending issues
saying that, "If we fought there, you won't see us smiling. All
of us are patriots. We are talking about one thing: the good
of the education sector in Nigeria. There are no adversaries
in this matter. There are no winners. There are no losers.
That is why we should work together." There was a
broadcast of this interview on the 9 pm network news
yesterday.
Reacting to a report quoting her as saying that the strike
would be resolved yesterday, the Minister of Education, Prof.
Ruqayyatu Rufai, said "I did not promise that the demand will
be met today (yesterday). What I said is that it is our hope
and desire that based on what we are doing so far, the
strike will be called off. And we have made progress. Of
course, we are still meeting. Even tomorrow at 10am we
have another meeting with ASUU. So, we are making
progress."
In his own comment , Minister of Labour and Productivity,
Chief Emeka Wogu, expressed the hope that after the
resolution of the issue, there would be a lasting industrial
peace in the sector
He said, "We have made progress and everything will
continue tomorrow (today). We believe that at the end of full
discussions on this strike, we will come to a conclusion that
will be more lasting than the previous ones."
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ASUU STRIKE UPDATE
The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufai last week told reporters that ASUU would call off its strike action on Monday after holding a meeting with university vice-chancellors. But the ASUU President has refuted this claim saying that ASUU is not a member of the Association of Vice Chancellors, and as such, could not call off the strike action until government implemented its agreements with ASUU.
“It’s all government’s propaganda! ASUU won’t call off its strike so long as government shies away from the issue of effective funding of the universities”, the ASUU president said. He however expressed ASUU’s appreciation to the senate in passing the bill for the extension of the retirement age of Professors from 65 to 70 years. “The year of retirement is just one of our demands, the funding is the cardinal,” he added. “Mr. President has scheduled a meeting with ASUU on Monday, if government accepts to implement our demand, that is when we will think of calling off the strike. “Even at that, the National Executive Committee of ASUU will have to meet and have series of meetings to agree on when to call off the strike. “However, with the intervention of Mr. President, I believe the solution will come faster than expected” the ASUU president stated.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Jonathan ignores Fashola, Soyinka, others, retains soldiers in Lagos
The soldiers that President Goodluck Jonathan deployed to quell the pro-fuel subsidy riots in Lagos remained in the state on Tuesday despite pleas by eminent Nigerians asking the President to rescind the deployment. On Monday, Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka; the Governor of Lagos State, Babatunde Fashola (SAN); and some other eminent Nigerians had criticised the deployment and demanded the immediate withdrawal of the soldiers from the streets of Lagos. The critics had argued that the largely non-violent protests that Lagos witnessed during the fuel subsidy crisis did not warrant the deployment of troops. But indications that the President had ignored the eminent Nigerians emerged on Tuesday as our correspondents who moved round the metropolis reported that the soldiers were still stationed around Lagos. Soldiers were sighted at the Gani Fawehinmi Park in Ojota, which served as the epicentre of last week’s protests, and other areas of the city, including Obanikoro, Surulere, Tafawa Balewa Square, Maryland and Fadeyi. According to reports, the soldiers did not frisk motorists and passers-by or search vehicles as they did on Monday, but they were all heavily armed. At Falomo in Ikoyi, the venue of very successful protest rallies last week, soldiers and Air Force policemen were seen under the Falomo Bridge. The stern military men did not allow commercial drivers to pick passengers under the bridge. The Convener, Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, said at a press conference on Tuesday that the group was going to sue the Federal Government for the violent violation of their rights to peaceful protest. Bakare said the government violated their rights through the deployment of troops and armoured vehicles to the Gani Fawehinmi Park, Ojota. Bakare said, “The violation of our rights to peaceful protests by the Federal Government through the deployment of troops and tanks to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park on Monday, January 16, is totally uncalled for. “Before we rallied at the park, we sought the necessary permission from the Lagos State Government and we wrote to notify the Lagos State Commissioner of Police and asked him to provide protection. “The policemen deployed to the park were mostly idle throughout the five days we spent at the Park, as there was no breakdown of law and order. Governor Babatunde Fashola in rejecting the crude assault on our right to protest acknowledged our peaceful conduct throughout our activities. “And we agree with him totally that if we had conducted ourselves otherwise, the police were the right body to deal with that and not soldiers who occupied the venue and subjected our people to harassment, corporal punishment and intimidation. It is unfortunate that this brutal dictatorship is taking place in a civilian dispensation. We shall definitely enforce our rights in courts to teach the regime the basic principles of civilised conduct in a democratic setting.” Bakare also said the CNG would hold a victory rally on Saturday as a mark of appreciation of the resilience of Nigerians during the five-day protest against fuel subsidy removal. Constitutional lawyer, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN) , who spoke with one of our correspondents on the telephone on Monday described the development as illegal and constituted an abuse of power. According to Sagay, soldiers can only be deployed in a place when there is insurrection against a sitting government, a situation he said was not present in Lagos while the protests lasted. He said, “Obviously, this is illegal and a gross abuse of power. People gathered at the various protest centres in Lagos and other parts of the country singing and dancing. There was no any form of insurrection. It is only when there is an insurrection that soldiers can be deployed in streets. That is, when some persons take up arms against a sitting government. There was no such thing in this situation.” Tunji Braithwaite at a press conference on behalf of Coalition of Civil Society Groups also demanded the immediate withdrawal of the troops. He said, “We want the immediate withdrawal of the soldiers from the state. We are not in the military era and Nigerians are not happy with this occupation. “The 1999 Constitution has been giving immunity to public officers with questionable records and for this reason they commit all manners of atrocities without being brought to book. It is high time immunity was withdrawn to bring people to account.” The Congress for Progressive Change said in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr. Rotimi Fashakin, that the military siege was unacceptable. Fashakin said, “The current military siege on the streets of Lagos, especially those leading to Ojota, the venue of the massive congregation of Nigerians against the fuel increase, is totally unacceptable. “The hubris of the FG’s penchant for calling out soldiers (like Boys’ Scout) on Nigerian streets for the flimsiest of reasons can only show the desperation of the government in refusing to acknowledge its squandering of the people’s goodwill. The resort to fascist schemes can only exacerbate the disillusionment of the Nigerian people to the viciousness of the government in the management of the affairs of state. Mohammed, son of the late legal icon, Gani Fawehinmi, in a statement on Tuesday said the deployment of soldiers in the state smacked of dictatorial tendencies. “The deployment of soldiers by President Goodluck Jonathan to all rallying points of protests confirms his military dictatorial tendencies to perpetuate himself in power. He should be reminded that we are in an era of democracy and the over N900bn budgeted for defence would not do the trick either,” Mohammed said. Also, leaders of Christian and Muslim bodies in Lagos State flayed the Federal Government over the militarisation of the state. The leaders at a press conference on Tuesday said they found the development unacceptable because the state had always been an epitome of religious and ethnic harmony in the country. Some of the leaders included Sheikh Afeez Abu, Sheikh Abdul Mojeed, Sheikh Sikirullahi Shaffy, Apostle Jeremiah Akinwusi, Archdeacon Yinka Omolu, Dr. Saheed Timehin and Rev. Bernard Okodua who is the state chairman of the Christian Association of Nigeria and co-chairman Nigeria Inter-Religious Council. Okodua who spoke on behalf of the leaders said, ‘‘As a state that has harboured over 20 million people of diverse backgrounds without any case of breakdown of law and order, even in the face of violence in other parts of the country, we are at a loss to what could have warranted such huge presence of military men who have taken over the duties of the police as if there is a coup d’état in the country.’’
The Senate has backed punishment for officials involved in the diversion of fuel subsidy
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We will force filling stations to sell at N97 – DPR
The Department of Petroleum Resources says it will force filling stations to sell petrol at N97. Operations Controller in Lagos/Ogun Zonal Office, Mr Gbenga Koku, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Tuesday that the agency had directed its surveillance teams to visit filling stations. Koku said that any station that failed to sell petrol at the approved price would be shut down immediately. “We are going to ensure that any station that has petroleum products sell to customers. “Our position is to clear all queues and ensure that stations sell petrol at the pump price rate of N97 per litre,” he said. The DPR boss, however, said many filling stations were closed because they lacked products, stressing that many stations had not received products since the strike started. “Most filing stations have ran out of stock and we expect that before the week runs out, they will have products,” he said. Koku noted that it was an offence to hoard petroleum products, adding that defaulting stations would be sanctioned.
JTF arrests six suspected Boko Haram members
The Joint Task Force on Operation Restore Order said in Maiduguri, Borno State on Tuesday that it had arrested six prominent individuals suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect. The JTF Field Commander, Col. Victor Ebhaleme, told newsmen that the arrest was part of the team’s renewed efforts toward cracking down on members of the sect, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. He said, “We have continued to record breakthroughs in our effort to ensure the return of peace in Maiduguri. “Consequently, we have arrested six high profile suspected members of the Boko Haram sect.”
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
"8 Men Slept With Me Daily" - 13 year-old girl
withheld) has confessed that an average of eight men slept
with her daily in a hotel in Sango Ota, Ogun State, Southwest
Nigeria after she was forced into prostitution.
The daughter of a deceased police officer who hailed from Edo
State, said she was lured into prostitution by a woman who
used to sell clothes to her mother at their Kareem Street,
Ahmadiyya, Ijaiye-Ojokoro, Lagos residence.
P.M.NEWS learnt that for about a month that the teenager was
lured into prostitution in the hotel, her abductor, Rosemary
Ekpolor, also pretended to be looking for her along with the
victim's mother.
However, nemesis caught up with Rosemary, also from Edo
State, South south Nigeria, when the police at Oke Odo Division
in Logos State got to know that the missing 13-year old girl was
one of the prostitutes their counterparts in Ogun State arrested
earlier. She was nabbed with five of her accomplices.
The discovery later led to the arrest of Rosemary whom police
said has no fixed address. She was nabbed with five of her
accomplice.
Narrating her ordeal, the little girl said: "I was coming from
home to my mother's shop at U-Turn Abule-Egba area where
she sells food and I ran into a woman, sister Rosemary, who
normally sold clothes to my mother and she told me to follow
her. I obeyed because I know her.
"She then took me into a bus and we arrived at a hotel in Sango
where she introduced me to two men called Fatai Akoko and
Olori-Ebi. And immediately she gave me a key to a room which
was dirty and smelling and she put a wig on my head, which
she said was to make me look older.
"On my first day at the hotel, Alhaji Mallam deflowered me and
before he did it I struggled with him but he overpowered me. I
went through hell. After having sex with him, much blood was
coming out of my private part and I quickly came out of the
room to call Aunty Rosemary and she went out and brought a
white handkerchief which she used in cleaning the blood.
"Eight men slept with me everyday. They paid me N800 each
and those who slept with me over night paid N1,500 each. After
the men had slept with me, Aunty Rosemary would give me
Ampiclox to swallow. I begged her to let me go home that I was
too small for this but she beat me. Now I feel pains in my
private part any time I urinate."
Her mother, Mrs. Rebecca Benjamin, said for the one month
the teenager was kept in the hotel as a prostitute while she and
others were searching for her, her abductor Rosemary was also
part of the search party.
As at the time of filing this report, the suspects were still being
detained at Oke-Odo Police Station.
One of the staff of the hotel at Sango Ota confirmed the arrest
of the suspects............
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YOUTH CORPER DIES ON TOP PASTOR'S DAUGHTERDURING MARATHON SEX.
A serving member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC)
has passed on after several rounds of sexual bout in his
girlfriend’s house in Benin City.
The news came as a rude shock to residents and family
members to the late corps member who was earlier posted to
Jigawa State but returned to Edo State to continue the one year
mandator...y service because of the killings in the North.
His girl friend who is in her mid 20s and a student of Shaka
Momodu Polytechnic revealed that after hanging out with her
Corper lover also in his 20s, he took alcohol and some suya and
she accompanied him to a local dealer to buy an undisclosed
drug before going to bed.
Around 2a.m the Corper started shouting which attracted
neighbours. They tried to pray to God to revive him from
exhaustion while others sprinkled olive oil on him.
The young lady, a chorister of Church of God Mission and the
daughter a pastor in Warri, Delta State is currently kept at the
Esigie Police Divisional Station with the landlord of the house
located at Muritala Mohammed Way in the heart of the state
capital.
The girl is now in a dilemma as she is on the verge of losing
her fiancée who proposed to marry her and has subsequently
introduced him to her father in Warri as her would be
husband.
Meanwhile, the Edo State Public Relation Officer, Mr. Peter
Ogboi who confirmed the incident said a post mortem will be
conducted on the deceased....
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Sunday, October 23, 2011
Many killed' as Turkey hit by 7.2 magnitude quake
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake has hit eastern Turkey, killing at
least 45 people in one town alone as buildings collapsed,
Turkish media say.
The quake struck close to the city of Van, where Anatolia news
agency said at least 50 people were injured.
Rescuers were scrambling to pull people from dozens of collapsed
buildings in Van and other nearby towns.
Turkey is particularly vulnerable to earthquakes because it sits on
major geological fault lines.
Two earthquakes in 1999 with a magnitude of more than 7 killed
almost 20,000 people in densely populated parts of the north-west of
the country.
'We need medics'
The earthquake struck at 10:41 GMT (13:41 local time) with its
epicentre 16km (10 miles) north-east of Van, the US Geological
Survey said.
It was followed by a series of powerful aftershocks, also centred
north of Van, including two of magnitude 5.6.
The main quake was at a depth of 20km, the USGS said.
Turkish television said 45 people had been
killed and 150 injured in the town of Ercis -
some 60km north of Van.
Deputy Prime Minister Besir Atalay said 25-30
buildings had collapsed in Ercis and 10 had
collapsed in Van.
According to the Turkish Red Crescent, 25
buildings containing flats and one housing a
dormitory had collapsed in Ercis, AP said.
Zulfikar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis, told
NTV: "There are so many dead. Several
buildings have collapsed, there is too much
destruction."
"We need urgent aid, we need medics," he is reported by the
Associated Press news agency as saying.
'Voices'
Television pictures from Van showed damaged buildings and vehicles
crushed by masonry, with panicked residents spilling into the streets.
Local official Veysel Keser said: "Many multi-floor buildings, hotels
and a dormitory were collapsed."
"We can hear voices from the collapsed
buildings," AFP news agency quoted him as
saying.
As night fell, rescuers struggled to pull people
from the rubble, working by torchlight, using
their hands and shovels.
Temperatures are expected to drop to near
0C overnight. The quake has cut electricity
and telephone lines and the authorities in
some areas have cut gas to avoid the risk of
fire.
The head of Turkey's seismology institute said hundreds of people
may have been killed.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Boko Haram:Presidentialpanel blames FG,securityagencies
The Presidential
Committee on Security
Challenges in the North-
East has indicted the
federal and state
governments, as well as
security agencies over the
protracted violence in the
region.
The committee said the
violence persisted because
of the failure of
governance, inadequate
security intelligence and
the existence of private
militia groups founded
and funded by politicians.
The committee's final
report, which was
submitted to the Federal
Government on Monday
at the State House in
Abuja, was received by
Vice-President Namadi
Sambo on behalf of
President Goodluck
Jonathan.
The seven-man
committee, headed by
Ambassador Usman
Galtimari, was
inaugurated by the
Secretary to the
Government of the
Federation, Senator
Anyim Pius Anyim, on
August 2, 2011. It was
asked to identify the
brains behind the violent
Islamic sect, Boko Haram,
and the grievances of the
sect.
In inaugurating the
committee which he
described as fact-finding,
Anyim had said the team
was constituted to create
a forum for a pool of
suggestions that would
guide the Federal
Government on the
desirability or otherwise of
negotiating with Boko
Haram.
While presenting the
committee's final report,
Galtimari indicted
governments at all levels,
attributing Boko Haram's
violent campaign to "weak
governance and failure to
deliver services in the
wake of huge resources
accruing to
governments."
Galtimari said, "Mr.
President, the inability of
the Federal Government
to complete useful/crucial
projects that have high
development impacts has
also not been helpful.
"In our interactions with
state governors, chiefs of
security agencies,
traditional rulers and other
stakeholders, all advised
for urgent steps to be
taken to provide
measures for economic
empowerment of the
teeming unemployed
youths in the North-East
zone.
"The committee therefore
recommends that
government at all levels
should, as a matter of
priority, initiate and design
appropriate programmes
to address the issue of
unemployment in the
zone. The committee is of
the view that the ongoing
trial of police officers
linked to the murder of
Mohammed Yusuf, the
sect leader and some of
his followers should be
expedited and publicised
to convince the public of
government's sincerity on
the matter."
Galtimari said operational
lapses among security
agencies, service rivalry,
under-funding, under-
equipment and lack of
collaboration fuelled the
violence.
"On the part of the
security forces, there are
palpable operational
lapses, service rivalry,
under-funding, under-
equipment and lack of
collaboration. In addition,
governments have failed
to deliver justice and bring
immediate relief to victims
of the crisis, he said.
Galtimari said the
committee discovered a
general failure of effective
and coordinated
intelligence gathering and
its deployment to forestall
events with undesirable
consequences in the
country.
He regretted that there
was no high level security
network/forum (outside
the statutory national
security institutions) that
could enable an informal
meeting between the
President and the
governors as well as
other top level security
stakeholders.
"The lack of an institutional
structure/arrangement to
primarily cater for inter-
religious affairs to
promote harmonious
coexistence confounded
the problems.
"Most importantly, the
committee was inundated
with series of complaints
that the increasing level of
insecurity in the country
was amongst other
reasons due to the failure
of governments to
implement reports of
various committese that
were constituted and had
submitted useful
recommendations in the
past," he said.
He also said politicians and
individuals contributed to
the lingering violence by
funding private militias
that were established,
funded, used and then
dumped after having been
trained to handle arms.
He said, "Existence of
private militias that were
established, funded and
used by politicians and
individuals and then
dumped after having been
trained to handle arms;
Presence of a large
number of almajiris who
together with those
mentioned above could
easily be used as canon
folders to ignite and
sustain crisis."
Other problems identified
by the panel are, the
"Influx of illegal aliens
resulting from porous and
unmanned borders
coupled with provocative
and inciting preaching by
some religious clerics;
Extra-judicial killing of the
sect leader Mohammed
Yusuf and some
members of the sect by
security agents; Weak
governance and failure to
deliver services in the
wake of huge resources
accruing to state and local
governments."
The committee therefore
recommended among
others, that the Federal
Government should
consider the option of
dialogue and negotiation
with the sect that has
been prosecuting a
campaign of violence in
the country.
While receiving the report,
Sambo promised Federal
Government's resolve to
implement its
recommendations to the
letter.
He said the present
administration would
depart from "business as
usual" where
recommendations made
by committees are not
implemented. He said that
the huge money
earmarked for job
creation in the budget was
an indication of the
government's desire to
tackle youth
unemployment.
On the issue of almajiris,
the VP said that the
government had already
conducted a survey that
indicated that about
9.5million of them existed
in the North.
While saying that the
government was taking
steps to put them in
boarding schools, Sambo
disclosed that the second
phase of the programme
worth over N4bn was
approved last week.
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