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Nosa Akenzua – Asaba

Tension over Lassa fever outbreak has continued to unsettled patients at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba following the death of two patients within four days.

While many of the patients and nurses have fled the hospital for fear of the unknown, no fewer than over 55 persons have been reportedly killed across the country in the last few weeks of its outbreak.

Investigation revealed that it took the efforts of the Health workers at the FMC to remove the bodies of the two patients reportedly said to have died of the diseases.

The two victims (names withheld), hospital sources said died two days interval after being managed for a week plus but the State Health Commissioner, Dr. Nicholas Azinge who refused to confirm the incident, said “I know some persons have died, I cannot speak further on that because the Federal Ministry of Health is already doing something to sensitize the people and we in Delta State are also sensitising our people”.

With twenty-two patients quarantined at present at the hospital, further investigation revealed that there are palpable tension and fear of the unknown among the health workers, especially the doctors who feared that the disease may be something else.

A Doctor who did not want his name in the print, said “We too we are afraid of the present situation with over twenty two persons already quarantined and so far three have died, so the situation expresses deep fears of the unknown, but by the grace of God, we shall overcome the situation”.

But in a swift reaction, the acting Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr. Victor Osiatumeh said “It is not as if Nurses or patients have fled the hospital, as for the nurses and doctors, they are careful with protective measures to ensure they too are not contacted, the situation as a matter of fact is precarious but we are managing it, especially the twenty two persons quarantined”.

Further investigation revealed that relations of the twenty-two quarantined persons are also careful with a view to ensuring they are not infected with the disease.

Two weeks ago a 65-year old woman from Anambra State died of the disease at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Asaba after being managed for a period of time. Since then there has been panic and fear of the unknown across the State.

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An aide to the Commissioner of Police, Railway Command, Lagos State, identified as Agu, has been arrested for allegedly raping and beating a lady until she fell into a coma.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the incident happened inside the policeman’s apartment in the Railway Police Barracks.

It was learnt that 31-year-old Agu had tricked the victim, identified as Yeni, into the barracks.

He was said to have had sex with her, which the victim submitted to.

Later at night, he allegedly woke her up for another round of sex, which Yeni refused.

The duo were said to have struggled, but the suspect allegedly overpowered her.
He was said to have assaulted and raped her.

The victim reportedly passed out.
The police authorities were said to have arrested Agu, made him to face an orderly-room trial and dismissed him from the force.

A police source told our correspondent that the incident happened on Sunday.
It was learnt that the suspect, who was married with a kid, had separated from his wife.

The source said, “He had a habit of sleeping with all kinds of women. His wife separated from him due to his infidelity.

“Last Sunday, he saw the lady on the road and spoke to her. She agreed to the friendship and he invited her to his apartment.

“We learnt that they had sex, though the lady said she was initially against it. After the sex, they both fell asleep, but the policeman woke her up for another round of sex and she refused.

“Agu hit her with some objects. He flogged her till she sustained serious injuries which made her fell into a coma.

“He still had his way with her. It was the following morning that the police authorities in the barracks were informed and he was arrested.”

The source, who claimed to have been in the room, said the floor was dotted with Yeni’s blood.

It was learnt that while Agu was detained at the EBJ Police Area Command, the victim was rushed to the Federal Medical Centre, where she was resuscitated and treated.

Another police source said the Railway command conducted an orderly-room trial for the suspect and he was dismissed.

He said, “Some policemen followed him to his room and collected his uniform and other police property in his custody.
“He was then handed over to the police for prosecution.”

PUNCH Metro was told that investigations had been concluded and the suspect was about to be arraigned when the detectives got a call to cancel the arraignment.

A source said, “The detectives were done with investigations and he was to be taken to court when they were told to let go of the matter.

“As if that was not enough, he was released and he is back in the barracks.”

PUNCH Metro visited the EBJ Area Command, but was told the area commander was not available.

Our correspondent was referred to the police headquarters.

On arriving at the Nigeria Railway Police Command Headquarters, he was directed to the office of the CP, Pius Imue.

However, an aide, who enquired on how our correspondent got to know about the case, said the CP said he would not react.

He said, “Who gave you the story? I am interested in knowing because I don’t know how you heard such a thing. The CP said he does not want to talk about it.”

However, a police source in the command, confirmed the story.

He said the victim was still going to the FMC for medication, adding that she sustained injuries in different parts of her body.

She said, “The girl was truly admitted in the hospital, but she was discharged the same day.

“Her injuries were minor. She was only hurt in her legs, buttocks, and the forehead.”

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Ade Adesomoju, Abuja

The five All Progressives Congress Senators, who filed a suit before a Federal High Court in Abuja challenging the leadership elections of the 8th Senate have expressed disappointment in the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, over his claims in an application to the Chief Judge of the court, asking for transfer of the case from Justice Adeniyi Ademola to another judge.

According to the senators, the application seeking the transfer of the case from Justice Ademola contained false information aimed at injuring the integrity of the judge.

The elections which produced Dr. Bukola Saraki as the Senate President and Ekweremadu as his deputy is being challenged by Senators Abu Ibrahim, Kabir Marafa, Ajayi Boroffice, Olugbenga Ashafa and Suleiman Hunkuyi.

The five plaintiffs who are through their suit marked, FHC/ABJ/CS/651/2015, seeking the removal of both Saraki and Ekweremadu as the Senate President and Deputy Senate President respectively contended that the leadership elections which produced them on June 9, 2015, when the 8th Senate was proclaimed were conducted using forged version of the Senate Standing Orders.

Four days after Justice Ademola heard the parties to the suit and reserved judgment in the case on December 14, 2015, Ekweremadu initiated moves to stop the court from delivering its verdict by leveling allegation of bias against the judge in an application which he sent to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim Auta, asking for the reassignment of the case to another judge.

The Deputy Senate President alleged in his application dated December 17, 2015 and filed on December 18, 2015, that Justice Ademola was bias in the handling of the case due to his alleged closeness to National Leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu.

Ekweremadu, also a lawyer, alleged further in the petition which he personally signed that the judge’s wife was recently appointed Head of Service in Lagos State due to his (Justice Ademola’s) relationship with Tinubu.

But in response to Ekweremadu’s application, the Senators, through their lawyer, Mr. Mike Osuman (SAN), contended that the Deputy Senate President who was called to Bar on December 23, 1987, ought to know that the most civilized option open to him to address his grievances was not to stop the court from delivering its judgment but to wait for it to be delivered and then challenge it at the appellate court.

The plaintiffs also faulted Ekweremadu’s allegation of bias and denial of fair hearing against the trial judge.

They maintained that since Ekweremadu did not, at any time, witness proceedings in the case, he must have acted on the wrong information given to him by his lawyers.

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A woman in Zimbabwe who filed a lawsuit against her baby daddy for not paying child support, got the shock of her life after he revealed she has been sleeping with his twin brother and not him.

Chubhie:
Just as this will be the last we shall hear of this man caught with 'credible Intel'. Can't you see this brand of Apc sorcery is beyond logic?

Chubhie:
This reeks of planted news to placate the chibok mothers after the gaffe of bubu.

A source who pleaded for anonymity because he was not authorised to speak on the arrest told Daily Trust that the suspect was on his way to Lagos

sirp2007:
No..He thought human head is now ATM

According to him, “he took me to a native doctor in Abakiliki and I was asked to go and bring human head. I was going there with the human head when I was arrested.”

There was pandemonium on Monday at the Ibafo Police Division, Lagos state as armed robbers shot a security guard to death in front of the station.

The deceased identified only as Kayode, a member of the Oodua People’s Congress, was among residents who responded to the distress call of a couple abducted by the robbers in their Landcruiser SUV.

The couple, Oluwakunmi Ayodeji, an engineer, and his pregnant wife, Oyin, were reportedly returning from a maternity centre behind the police station when they were attacked by the gang.
Policemen at the Ibafo division were said to have hurriedly shut the gate to the station and shunned calls for help.

The robbers, after getting to the Lotto end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, reportedly shot Oluwakunmi in the eye region and abandoned him and his wife on the road.
A family friend of the couple, Bisola Olojede, said she had taken the couple to the maternity centre where Oyin had a scan and they were leaving the centre for a hospital in Ikeja when the robbers struck.

Olojede said, “The incident happened around 10pm. The woman, who is my friend, was pregnant and her doctor recommended that she should do a scan.

“I was called to take them to a private maternity centre in Ibafo. From the maternity centre, we decided to go to a hospital in Ikeja. As her husband opened the vehicle doors with a remote, she entered and sat at the front, while I took my seat at the back.

“Her husband had just entered the SUV when a man suddenly appeared and started dragging the steering with him. I alighted from the car and called for help.

“I saw a man and I begged him to assist us, but he ignored me. I never knew he was among the robbers,” Olojede added, stating that she moved away when she saw that the robbers were armed.
She disclosed to The Punch that a few minutes later, they drove away with Oluwakunmi and his wife.

Olojede explained that she ran after the vehicle and started calling for help, adding that some residents, including Kayode, joined her in chasing the vehicle.
When the robbers got to the front of the Ibafo Police Station, they were said to have stopped and fired into the crowd of pursuers.

Olojede said, “The bullet hit one of us and the man died immediately. The police heard the gunshot and rushed out. I started begging them to help us, saying there was a pregnant woman in critical condition in the vehicle.

“There were two of them, a man and a woman. But they shunned me. I called my husband on the telephone and told him what happened. He said I should call the police and I told him I was with them but they were not doing anything. When the police heard that, they quickly shut their gate,” she added.

The policemen were said to have opened their gate and invited Olojede to make statements.
“Later, they asked if there was anybody that could identify the man that was shot dead and two men came forward and said he was a member of the OPC and his name was Kayode.

“They then put him in the same van they were supposed to use to chase the robbers, preparing him for the mortuary. They started asking me all kinds of irrelevant questions.
“They told their DPO on the telephone that they had attended to me,” she added.
Oluwakunmi’s friend, Jejelaye Gbadamosi, said he had been admitted in an undisclosed hospital.

“They dropped them around Lotto, and drove off in their jeep. It was a Good Samaritan that assisted them. My friend and his wife are in different hospitals. The bullet pierced him around the eye,” Gbadamosi reportedly disclosed.
He said they suspect that the robbers came out from a brothel close to the maternity area.

“The place is notorious. The police did not also do well. They didn’t respond until their DPO called them,” he added.
A source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said despite witnessing the killing, the Ibafo Police Division did not send signals to surrounding stations.

However, confirming the incident, the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Ogun State Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, denied that the police absconded and shut its gate against the residents.

“The couple, who were abducted, were rescued in the Redemption Camp area, and they have regained their freedom. They are being treated in a clinic.

“We have a confirmation that somebody was shot dead around the police station and the police heard a woman calling for help; and she was attended to.
“Nobody shut any gate; it is not possible,” the PPRO said.

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Having been pushed from their base in Sambisa forest by the renewed military onslaught, intelligence reports say that Boko Haram terrorists are planning to launch an attack in Bauchi State.

This was disclosed during a two-day workshop on the Roles of Private Guards in Curbing Insurgency in Bauchi State organised by the state command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in collaboration with the state government.

It was stated that intelligence gathering say the insurgents plan to infiltrate the state using the private guards disguised as fruits sellers, hence the staging of the workshop is to sensitise private guards.

In his address of welcome, the state commandant of the NSCDC, Mr Donatus Ikemefuna, said the people must cooperate to ward off the security challenge of insurgency not only in the country but globally.

According to him, “As the nation is at the verge of routing out the insurgents in the North East, no stone must be left unturned to make sure ugly developments do not resurface.
“Our resolve to work together particularly in the areas of operation and intelligence-sharing will continue to form impenetrable wall against vices.

“Nigerians must support the government at this critical period by cooperating with security agencies in maintaining law and order,” he stated.

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room089:
Leffam no be wen dey turn am upside down, come tie e leg for ceiling and come dey brush am with bulala, koboko or even talk-true, e go talk true by force!

A 70-year-old pastor, Mr Caleb Oluwafisibe, on Tuesday pleaded with an Ojo Customary Court in Lagos to dissolve his 41-year -old marriage to his wife, Titilayo, because he was sex starved.

The pastor, who ironically appeared in court wearing a polo T-shirt which had the inscription ‘peace’ at the back, told the court that he was already practicing a celibate life, even as a married man.

“Since I married my wife in June 1975, it’s been marriage and separation in two phases because any situation was determined by what I could offer.

“We were living well until 1998 when things became tough with me. We separated from 1998 to 2006, when my church transferred me out to the East,’’ he said.

According to him, my wife had a negative influence on my children as we had divergent views on their welfare and training. We always clashed because of them.

He said that his wife refused him sex from 2006 till date and that forced him to practice a life of celibacy, in order to keep his vows as a man of God.

“I even had a special prayer for my wife for three years to see if God would intervene in the difficult situation and change her personality,’’ he said.

Oluwafisibe, therefore, pleaded with the court to separate their union, so he could move on with his life.

The wife, Titilayo, however, debunked the husband’s allegation, saying he was treating her without any tender consideration as a wife.

“He calls himself a pastor yet he does not have regard for his family. He has really caused so much division among our children,’’ she said.

The Court president, Mrs Veronica Willoughby, in her remark urged the pastor to reconsider his prayer of dissolution, as a man of God.

“As a pastor, you should seek peace and not separation. I will give you a second chance to go back and reconsider your intention.

“You have both failed in the training of your children by using them as a point of disagreement. Your children are your collective responsibilities,’’ she said.

Willoughby then adjourned the case till Feb. 16, to give the couple some time to reconsider their intentions. (NAN)

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Recalling the event, the victim said that she entered her room and saw Okonta riffling through her purse. She said: “He was going through my purse to steal money. I caught him red handed. He was shocked. I accused him of being the person that used to steal all missing money in the compound. I was shocked myself because I trusted him. We have never quarrelled before. As I was still talking to him, he ran out of the room and before I knew what was happening, he came back with a kitchen knife.

bigiyaro:
he is not grand anytin, we jst have an inefficient system.

The Federal Government on Monday painted graphic details of the monumental corruption that rocked country in the past, declaring that 55 privileged Nigerians stole N1.34 trillion from the treasury between 2006 and 2013.

The period in question covered the last three administrations of former President Olusegun Obsanjo, late Umar Musa Yar’adua and Goodluck Jonathan.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the disclosure at a briefing with the media House Bureau Chiefs in Abuja, said all the 55 are in court facing trial.
He appealed to the judiciary to help speed up the cases.

He said, “The situation is dire and the time to act is now. For example, between 2006 and 2013, just 55 people allegedly stole a total of N1.34 trillion in Nigeria. That’s more than a quarter of last year’s national budget!
Out of the stolen funds,
15 former governors allegedly stole N146.84 billion,
four former ministers allegedly stole N7billion,
12 former public servants, both at federal and state levels, allegedly stole over N14billion,
eight people in the Banking Industry allegedly stole N524billion
and 11 businessmen allegedly stole N653 billion.

“Now, what do these figures translate to in the actual sense? In other words, what is the cost of these stolen funds for Nigerians? Using World Bank Rates and Costs, one third of the stolen funds could have provided 635.18 kilometres of road, built 36 ultra modern hospitals, that is one ultra modern hospital per state, built 183 schools, educated 3,974 children from primary to tertiary level at 25.24 million per child and built 20,062 units of 2-bedroom houses.”

He also described reports that the current anti-corruption war was lopsided as erroneous and nauseating.
He added, “There is the erroneous impression out there that the war against corruption is a vendetta against the opposition, and that it is one-sided. This is not true and indeed very nauseating.

“This is the money that a few people, just 55 in number, allegedly stole within a period of just eight years. And instead of a national outrage, all we hear are these nonsensical statements that the government is fighting only the opposition, or that the government is engaging in vendetta.”

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If Seriake Dickson the Governor of Bayelsa State is expecting a congratulatory message from President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent re-election for a second term of office, he had better forget it.

Lai Mohammed, Nigeria’s minister of information and culture told journalists in Abuja on Monday that the President would not follow the habit of his predecessor who was of the habit of sending congratulatory messages to winners of elections regardless of party affiliation immediately after announcement of results.

Governor Dickson of Peoples Democratic Party was recently re-elected for a second term in an election that was marred by violence. He defeated Timipre Slyva of All Progressives Congress, APC, the party of President Buhari.

There have been calls, especially from Senator Ben Bruce, a Bayelsa State PDP Senator and other members of the party that President Buhari should toe the path of former president, Goodluck Jonathan who issued statements to congratulate members of the opposition party who won governorship election during his tenure.

But Mohammed told journalists that President Buhari sees such congratulatory messages as unnecessary interference in elections or their outcomes which he will not engage in.

“This President is not in the business of interfering and intervening in elections,” the Minister said.

He also noted that the President never sent any congratulatory message to the APC candidate who was also victorious in Kogi State gubernatorial election.

“What of if he sent a congratulatory message and they go to court and the election is overturned, will he call back the congratulatory message? “This President believes that the presidency should be insulated from the conduct of elections and their outcomes,” Mohammed added.

He also dismissed rumours circulating on the social media that President Buhari will soon embark of 91 days medical leave.

The Minister, who said if Buhari is going to go on leave at all, he is not going to hide it, described the rumour as part of campaign of calumny against the President.

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