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Friday, August 1, 2014
Photos as MD Abubakar hands over to new IG of Police, Suleiman Abba
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I’ll lead Nigerians to defeat terror -Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday evening vowed that he would lead Nigerians to defeat the Boko Haram sect that has been unleashing terror on parts of the country.
“Fellow citizens, we will defeat terror and I will lead Nigerians to achieve this,” Jonathan declared at a fundraiser where over N60bn was raised for the Victims Support Fund.
The event held at the Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja was meant to raise fund to provide relief and succour for all those who have been adversely affected by terrorism and insurgency in the country.
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Ex-Militants Warn Against Termination Of Amnesty Programme
Termination of the Presidential Amnesty Programme in 2015 could trigger fresh crisis in the Niger Delta, ex-militants in the region have said. Coordinator of the ex-militants underneath the third phase amnesty (Ebipa-Opre Ex-militants Forum), Mr. Ramsey Oyakemeagbegha, in a statement in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, stated that the conditions which triggered militancy in the region hadn't been addressed.
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Ebola: Abuja residents embrace safety measures
Obinna said that contrary to her husband’s preference for bush meat in the meal, the family had resorted to eating goat meet and beef.
She said,
FG "Bokoharaming" Osun ahead of gov poll -APC
In a statement issued in Lagos on Friday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party wondered why the FG will send agents of the Department of State Services, some of them masked and clad in black, to the state to harass innocent citizens in an unprovoked and primitive show of power that can only be described as sheer gangsterism.
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Graphic Photo: Keyamo petitions IG of Police over Mysterious death at Lagoon Restaurant
Below is a petition to the Inspector General of Police from Festus Keyamo chambers about a staff of Lagoon Restaurant in VI who drowned while on duty. Read below...
We are solicitors to Mr. Orobosa Onaghise (hereinafter referred to as ‘our Client’) on whose instructions we write to you.
The Likely Cure For The Deadly Ebola Virus
By Dr. Simbo Davidson
On 22 July 2014, the first case of the dreaded Ebola virus arrived in Nigeria via an Asky aircraft. However, no one knew it at the time. How did this happen? How had this patient been screened at his port of departure, that is Liberia airport? We can also ask ourselves yet another question. Why is it taking so long to curtail the epidemic? For instance, the World Health Organisation (WHO) recently announced that as at 23 July 2014, the Ebola epidemic had claimed 672 lives. Furthermore, there are currently 1201 suspected and confirmed cases across West Africa.Continue..
APC: Political Mistake in the 2015 presidential election.
"The two major political parties in Nigeria today, the PDP and the APC are not built on any known political ideologies, but on personalities, religions, ethnicity and geopolitical zones where they derive their political support from. The worst electoral mistake that the opposition party, the APC in Nigeria will be making in the 2015 presidential election in that country is to go ahead and pick any of these Northern Nigerian APC governors or the former vice-president of Nigeria, Abubakar Atiku as its presidential candidate against Jonathan Goodluck. General Muhammadu Buhari should be picked by the APC if this politician is still personally interested in running for that office for the fourth time and if his physical health is still very good for the rigor of the cross-country campaigns and the intellectual challenges of the office of the President of Nigeria.
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Ebola crisis: Infected aid worker heads to US
A hospital in Atlanta is preparing to receive a US aid worker infected with the deadly Ebola virus in West Africa.
The unnamed patient will be flown to the US in the next few days for treatment at a high-security ward at Emory University Hospital, medics said.
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Child Placenta Discovered In Islamic Cleric's Home In Ilorin Kwara State
Yesterday, some volunteers going round the community to appeal for contribution for a faulty transformer repair perceived offensive odour at Alfa Gani’s house and reported him to other members of Laduba.
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Nollywood Actors Tell Students To Shun Cultism
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| Camela Mberekpe |
Nollywood actors, Chiwatalu Agu, Camela Mberekpe and Bruno Iwoaha, in arecently held event, held at the Cross River State College of Education in Awi, Akamkpa Local Government Area, with the Department of Orientation and Public Affairs in the Governor’s Office, warned students in higher institutions to shun cultism, saying it will cut short their future dreams.
Monarch Threatens To Sue Enugu Govt Over Dethronement
The monarch said he would demand N20 million as damages from the state government for the embarrassment caused him on account of the withdrawal of his certificate of recognition should the government fail to reverse same. The state government in a letter by the Commissioner for Chieftaincy Matters, Pastor Emeka Abugu, had suspended the monarch over alleged refusal to hand over “assets of Enugu West Traditional Rulers Council, a Toyota Bus and sum of one million naira to the new executive, despite appeals from the council and Ministry.”
Man kills lover for refusing his marriage proposal
This story proves that as powerful and uniting as love is..it can also be fatal. The young man in the pic above is currently cooling off in a police cell in lagos pending when he will be charged to court for the gruesome murder of his lover (woman in the pic) because she refused to marry him.
Punch reports that 28-year-old man, Raphael Effiong, was arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for allegedly killing his lover, Gift Sunday, in a hotel over her refusal to walk down the aisle with him.
26-year-old Sunday, who lived on Fadiya Street, Ketu, Lagos, was a fashion designer while Effiong, an indigene of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State, was working as a driver in a telecommunications company in Lagos.
Thursday, July 31, 2014
"We need all kinds of sanctions against the US for their multicriminal global policies - German political analyst
"We need all kinds of sanctions against the US for their multicriminal global policies, a kind of hegemony by the mafia - German political analyst
The US handling of the Malaysian passenger plane story fits well with its bad habit of using false pretexts to justify its attacks against other countries. In an exclusive interview with the Voice of Russia’s Burning Point Christoph R. Hörstel, German political analyst and government consultant, is analyzing the Boeing tragedy in the context of US broader global policies.
Sierra Leone Declares State Of Emergency Over Ebola Outbreak
Sierra Leone began quarantining areas of Ebola infection, as international health officials announced an international $100m plan to combat an epidemic which has already killed more than 700 people in West Africa.
Security forces set up quarantines on Thursday, hours after Sierra Leone’s President, Ernest Bai Koroma, ordered a state of emergency, cancelled a trip to the US and called a summit with regional leaders and the World Health Organisation on how to deal with the crisis.
WHO: Ebola Death Toll Rises To 729
Fifty-seven more deaths from the Ebola epidemic spreading alarm in west Africa have pushed the overall fatality toll from the outbreak to 729, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
The 57 deaths were recorded between Thursday and Sunday last week in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, the UN health agency said in a statement.
It added that 122 new cases were detected over the four days, taking the total number of confirmed and likely infected cases to 1,323, AFP reported.
US Slams Israel’s Bombing Of UN Shelter In Gaza
The United States has slammed ally, Israel for bombs that killed 19 people at a UN shelter in Gaza, in its strongest condemnation yet of Israeli attacks on civilians in the Palestinian enclave.
Josh Earnest, a White House spokesman, said on Thursday that the shelling of the school in Jabaliya was “totally indefensible” and called on Israeli forces to “live up to their own standards” of protecting civilians.
“While we underscore the importance of a full and prompt investigation of this tragic incident, as well as a shelling of other UN facilities and schools that have been hit, it does not appear there’s a lot of doubt about whose artillery was involved in this incident,” Earnest said.
FG sensitises airport workers on Ebola dangers
A statement by the Coordinating General Manager, Aviation Parastatals, Mr. Yakubu Datti, said the workers were from different agencies operating at the two major international airports.
He said the employees were sensitised by Port Health officials on the dangers posed by the Ebola virus and how to prevent the spread of the virus in the work place, home and the community.
Imam Murdered In China After Morning Prayers
Police launched an all-out investigation and shot dead two of the alleged assailants while capturing the other,
Tianshan said. Tianshan added Tahir’s killing was “premeditated” and that the suspects intended to commit a “ruthless murder”.
Tahir was found dead in a pool of blood outside the mosque’s prayer house, US-based Radio Free Asia reported earlier on its website.
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