Saturday, August 16, 2014

Chadian soldiers free Boko Haram captives





Chad’s troops have rescued most of the 100 people kidnapped by the Boko Haram sect, following a successful military operation against the sect. The terrorist group earlier this month kidnapped 100 people, according to a Nigerian security official and a local self-defence member. The Associated Press reported that the rescue operation took place on Friday. The abductions took place on August 10 in Doron Baga in the Kukawa area near the border with Chad, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media.

Ribadu Decamps APC, Joins PDP



It seems we in a weather of sudden changes and we’ve got to accept that. A former Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, has dumped the opposition All Progressives Congress [APC] and joined the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP]. Just as many were shocked at sudden and unexpected defection of the former gov. of Osun, Olagusoye Oyinlola from PDP to APC, Ribudu decamping is of greater surprise.  Mr. Ribadu was the presidential candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria [ACN] in 2011 and until his defection today considered one of the presidential prospects of the APC in the 2015 presidential election.
 

Boko Haram Alleged Sponsor, Sheriff, In Closed Door Meeting With Pres. Jonathan In Aso Rock




The man Femi Fani-Kayode said made him to leave the APC, as he is the “known creator” of Boko Haram is now in the same PDP with Fani-Kayode and the man is now President Goodluck Jonathan’s friend.

Ex-Governor of Borno State, Ali Modu Sheriff came out of a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Aso Rock presidential villa on Friday, declaring that his decision to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) was in the interest of Nigeria as a nation.
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Former Abia state Gov Uzor Kalu writes about his successor, Theodore Orji, calls him a chameleon.



In a piece titled "The Chameleon in Theodore Orji", former Abia state Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu bared his thoughts about his successor and one time friend, Theodore Orji, calling him a chameleon. In the no-holds-barred piece, Uzor Kalu spoke about how he made Theodore Orji a governor and how his former friend turned his back on him after he became governor. Find the piece he posted on his Facebook below.
"The first thing that would strike any person meeting Theodore Ahamefule Orji for the first time – 16 years ago – was his humble personality. I doubt if he still carries himself with the same simplicity and can­dour, for which I have known him, now he has tested power as governor. I say so, because power has a way of intoxicating some people, especially those who never dreamed of getting it. I must openly sub­mit that I was taken in by his facial ap­pearance, not knowing that deep inside he was a different person all together – a chameleon. Subsequent events have since proved me right." 
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Impossible Fusion - written by Charly Boy




 Article written by Charly Boy. Enjoy below...


A soulmate marriage does not at all mean that you have found someone you match up with on all the cards – on all the issues, on everything. That would be the most deadly dull thing to even imagine. Instead, it means you've found someone and they don't ever want to blow out that little light inside you. And you feel the same way about them. 

Growing up, seeing my Dad and Mum play the happy couple,  holding hands, stealing kisses, made marriage look so easy and beautiful. Hummmm for where? 
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SURE-P supports Abuja light rail project with N10bn




The Chairman, Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme, Gen. Martin-Luther Agwai (rtd), on Saturday in Abuja said the programme would support the completion of Abuja light rail project with N10 billion.


Agwai made this known while briefing newsmen after an inspection tour of the project.
He expressed satisfaction with the engineering design of the project and commended the Transport Secretariat of the Federal Capital Territory for the effort.

UNIOSUN shut as students protest death of colleague




The management of the Osun State University has closed down the Ikire Campus of the university indefinitely.
Our correspondent gathered that the management in a memo issued by the Registrar of the university announced the indefinite closure of the institution following an all night violent protest allegedly embarked upon by students of the school following the death of their colleague in an accident.
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Boko Haram link: APC to sue DSS, Ogar



In a statement issued in Ilorin on Saturday by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party also said it has decided to sue Ogar for attempting to blame the APC for the series of bomb blasts in the country, to give her the opportunity to present whatever evidence she may have of the APC ‘s complicity in a court of law.
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NMA vows to continue strike



The Nigerian Medical Association has threatened never to suspend the ongoing strike  unless the Federal Government reverses the sacking of  16, 000 resident doctors.


The Lagos State Chairman of the association , Dr. Tope Ojo, who spoke at a media briefing in Lagos on Saturday, vowed that the NMA would only resume negotiations with the Federal Government when it  reverses the sacking of  the doctors.  Based on the doctors, the  action is definitely an act of victimisation which proves that government is going to frustrate doctors in the country.
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34 massacred in Central Africa



“At least 34 people from several villages were killed between August 13 and 15 in the M’bres region by armed men identified by inhabitants as ex-Seleka,” an officer in the African peacekeeping force, MISCA, told the AFP news agency on the same day. The officer said the fleeing residents spoke of the attackers “firing on their victims at point-blank range and chasing them into the bush and some of the victims died by hanging, others were beaten or tortured to death”. 
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Photos: 2 stolen babies reunited with parents in Imo state.





The Imo state police command have successfully rescued and returned two babies abducted from their mothers a few hours after they were born.

While presenting the rescued babies to their mothers at the Imo state Police command headquarters, the head of the anti-human trafficking unit of the Imo police command, Mrs Elizabeth Okosun, said the police was able to rescue one of the babies after a tip-off by a commercial tricycle rider who suspected the shady behavior of the suspects when they boarded his tricycle about to travel with the baby to another state. 
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EFCC Arrest Former Bank Manager for ₦81million fraud



Find the EFCC press release below...
A former branch manager of one of the new generation banks, (Ecobank Plc), Victor Amushie has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for a credit fraud in the sum of N81, 024, 749.28( Eighty One Million, Twenty-Four Thousand, Seven Hundred and Forty Nine Naira, Twenty Eight kobo only).
The suspect allegedly packaged loan facilities for himself, using several names and accounts of some customers of his bank, with whom he shared the proceeds.
The loans went bad and the bank had to hold Amushie, who was on the verge of running out of the country before being apprehended by operatives of the EFCC.
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Family of 5 found dead in Abeokuta






A Family of 5,  a father, mother and their three children were found dead in their house yesterday Friday August 15th at Temidire Community, in Sabo, Abeokuta North LGA of Ogun State. The dead people have already been identified as Aliu Adeboye, his younger wife identified as Iya  Aliya and 3  of Adeboye's  6 children. 
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PhotoNews: Touching Photos from Liberia as country battles spreading Ebola epidermic



A mother and child stand on top of a mattress in an Ebola isolation station in Liberia for suspected victims of the virus
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August 15th Iraq SITREP: The king is dead, long live the king




12th Aug: The United States sends another 130 "Advisors" to Iraqi Kurdistan
13th Aug: The US is reporting that its reconnaissance missions are confirming that the plight of the Yazidis is not as severe as was expected
14th Aug: The US Secretary of Defence clarifies that US troops will not take part in military operations in Iraq.Continue..

Friday, August 15, 2014

Ebola Control: NYSC Suspends Orientation In 6 States



The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has announced the suspension of scheduled stream two orientation programme of the 2014 Batch ‘B’ Orientation in six states billed to start on Monday, September 1st due to the dreaded Ebola disease in the country.  Brig Gen Johnson Olawumi, the Director General of the NYSC, who announced the decision in Kubwa Orientation Camp in the Federal Capital Territory, said the corps members deployed to Adamawa, Bauchi, Jigawa, Borno, Gombe, and Yobe States will be affected by the directive.
 

Control of Ebola epidemic will take 6 months - President of Doctors Without borders



 The International President of Doctors Without Borders, Joanne Liu (pictured left), said today August 15th that it can take 6 months to bring the existing Ebola epidemic sweeping through West Africa under control. She said this after having a 10-day trip to countries in West Africa where the outbreak has up to now occurred. Liu, who met with Ebola patients & doctors, said the outbreak felt like'wartime'
"The main thing I come back to is that it is deteriorating faster, moving faster than we can respond to. To put it in context with my time with DWB, I really feel that it is like wartime, in terms of fear and nobody knowing what is going on. We need a response in terms of international organizations and states, and it needs to happen now if we want to contain this epidemic. Over the next six months we should get the upper hand on the epidemic, this is my gut feeling. We need people with a hands-on operational mindset to combat the outbreak." she said

Photos: Fashola commissions newly refurbished Tejuosho market



 Lagos state Governor, Raji Fashola today August 15th commissioned the newly refurbished Tejuosho market in Yaba Lagos, 7 years after the old market structure was completely gutted by fire.
 
The refurbished market, which used to have 1,484 lockup, has been increased to 2,640. Facilities in the new market complex includes banking spaces, 8 lifts to enable goods, services and people move up, two escalators for up and down movement of people, two ramps designed to assist physically handicapped people to get into and out of the building and a crèche where nursing mothers can attend to and keep their children while they are trading.

There is also a dedicated Fire Service Station within the complex with fire fighting systems built in the market to forestall any incident of fire disaster as well as a dedicated 800-vehicle capacity car-park unit. See more photos after the break.

U.S. Claims Ebola experimental drug 'Nanosilver' is a pesticide, warns



Yesterday we heard that the experimental drug called'Nanosilver'produced by a Nigerian in diaspora for the treatment of Ebola is here the country. (read here).
 Nevertheless now, regardless of the experimental drug getting approval for use by the World Health Organization (WHO), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns that Nanosilver is just a pesticide

From Reuters
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it has become aware of products being sold online that fraudulently claim to prevent or treat Ebola.
The FDA's warning comes on the heels of comments by Nigeria's top health official, Onyebuchi Chukwu, who reportedly said earlier Thursday that eight Ebola patients in Lagos, the country's capital, will receive an experimental treatment called nano-silver.

“Don’t misuse your body for any reason”- Susan Peters



When asked by the Sun about possible advice for ladies who do all manner of things to achieve cheap social status,Susan Peters who says she was born with a silver spoon replied…

First, I will say that we (women) are like flowers that blossom for sometimes, but after a while go down. If you misuse your body when you are growing up, it will definitely tell on you when you are ageing….
I advise young women not to misuse their body for monetary reasons. Secondly, I will advise them to go to school and try to complete their education. They should be well focused on a particular vocation and develop on it.

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