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The fire outbreak on Coal Street, Oko Baba, Ebute Metta area of Lagos state on Tuesday, was aided by the hoarding of petroleum products by residents, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said.

The residents, though, said the fire was caused by a long-running power outage in the area, which, coupled with the scarcity of petrol, forced residents to store petrol while relying on power generating sets

The agency also added that “no injuries, no casualties” were recorded at the inferno currently ravaging the riverine community.

Michael Akindele, general manager LASEMA, who spoke with TheCable at the site of the fire incident, said the agency was still evaluating losses recorded in the outbreak – aided by hoarded petroleum.

“In the cause of our investigation, it was revealed that the fire started from one of the plank houses, and there are a lot of petrol kegs being stored here and there, leading to an inferno,” he said.

He added that the fire started at 4:50pm and had been contained as at 8pm even though not totally put out.

Akindele said so much had been lost in the inferno, but the extent of damage could not be ascertained until another 24 hours.

Alfred Eguavoen, the volunteer coordinator of Lagos state branch of the Nigerian Red Cross Society, had a different account to relate to TheCable.

Eguavoen, who was one of the first on site, said he had to call LASEMA and NEMA to join in the rescue due to the intensity of the “wild fire”.

“By the time I called them, they told me they were on their way already. One of the fire fighters was already here, so I ordered for more.

“One person has been rushed to Ebute Meta health centre, while we have treated two other people here. One of them collapsed due to the smoke, another fell from the top of a building, but has also been taken care of.

“As at now, we don’t know the cause of the fire, the houses are made of plank. Where the fire has covered so far is as big as a stadium.”

A civil servant, who lost his home to the fire, said also said no casualties were recorded, adding that he return from work in time to save his credentials.

He corroborated Akindele’s story by saying the community had not had power (electricity) in four days, which led many families to relying on petrol-powered generators for their source of electricity.

“The fire could have been put out by residents, but there was no water. We have not had light (power) in four days, and no water in about three days. When the fire fighters came, their own tank was also exhausted,” he said.

While commending LASEMA for their intervention, he urged government to compensate residents, who he said “lost their means of livelihood”.

https://www.thecable.ng/petrol-hoarding-sparks-inferno-ebute-metta#.Vjm7C8RfzSE.twitter

*An overview of the wild fire on coal street

*Some residents salvaging what’s left of their property

*Fire @ oko

kingphilip:
I don't know this shii still happens

Well it might be love sha.. One might not just rule out anything for nw

the 'shii' stil happens o!

Bro, abeg no dey mention love like that again

Love is the excuse people give for being extremely foolish.

He paid for the girl's education

In anticipation of marriage to her.. Lol

Funny enough, this guy might even be an illiterate. SMH

My male friends on this forum, This is the worst investment ever. No man, and I mean no man has ever done this and reaped the benefit afterwards. Women are programmed to ditch you especially if you are an illiterate and you choose to sponsor her to school.

If you are an illiterate and your girlfriend is an illiterate too, marry her like that. Her illiteracy is your security. And if you want to sponsor her to school, marry her, put a baby in her tummy before sending her to school. The baby here is your security

Well, the deed is done and the dead, dead. Let the dead be buried and the killer, face the law. May her soul Rest in peace

Stale. The jobs are simply not there.

Dannyset:
Hahahahahahahaha!
Mr Hinwazaka how are you today? In Midolian voice

Acidosis:
But you spent your life time insulting Mama Peace and you didn't die.


You hypocrites need to always examine your fingers and dirty tongues before talking/typing

do I know you? Do you know me? How did you know this? Can you prove it?

joseph1832:
Don't hate the player bruv, hate the game!. Whether she be a IndecentStar or not, she's a female entrepreneur and she deserve to benefit from her hard work. Atleast she's better than those girls who sit on their butt and wait for a man to spend money on them.

hmm..

joseph1832:
No matter how dull Mrs Osinbajo is, she can never be as dull as Mama Piss. Midolian I lie?

you no lie bro! Mr hinwazaka is too pained to see this

hinwazaka:
This woman is so dull and uninspiring.

I pray you don't die prematurely with this burden of misplaced hate you carry in your mind.

Ufranklin92:
Funny

Tommorow might just be your turn...fool

There is sense in all he said.

This girl will always be a porn-star. Her mind is already made up.

Saraki will soon resign. #QuoteMeAnywhere

Don't call me a prophet when it happens.

joseph1832:
The feeling is mutual. I hope midolian no go para sha.

MrKontrovErsy:

a waste graduate from d west see im waist

hahhahahaha..you are crazy!

Aminat508:
Haba, all this Kwara Pple sef especially nupe

loool..me and u dey fight before? What has Nupe done to you this early morning?

God, deliver us from the hands of these demons

joseph1832:
No oh, I never see your pic before oh. Abi you dey mistake me with Aminat508?

hahahahhaha..

Its always on my profile.

A lecturer in Kwara State College of Education, Oro, Mr. Kayode Odeyemi, has appealed to the Kwara State government to pay workers salary.

He uploaded his picture while working as labourer in a building construction site to earn a paltry N1,500 to cater for his family.

Mr. Kayode said the hardship many lecturers are going through as a result of the non-payment of salaries is unbearable.

He said he has no option than to do what he’s doing so as to be able to feed.

https://www.today.ng/news/30318/lecturer-turns-labourer-over-non-payment-of-salary

Lalasticlala

modath:
25yrs !!! . BODA midolian niyen.

yea...that's all my life

joseph1832:
Chai bros you don old oh! Nahim mean say you fit be ECOTERROS senior brother age mate. LOL

lool..I still be small boy o!

I neva clock 30 sef! You must have seen my pix b4, havnt you?

modath:
See me with fallacy of hasty generalization, cos you were complaining about Saraki & how he is a tin god in your state the day Kwara folks used pure water & stones to welcome him, i just concluded you are an ILORIN YORUBA..

Firefire, se daada ni gbogbo nkan...

Ejo mo ni ibeere, se eniyan kan ni Ilekeh ati Ilekehd

Yea, I am a Nupe guy from kwara. Been living with the yorubas for over 25years now

modath:
Ere abi awada?

lol..I mean it o! I understand when you speak and write though..to an extent

Firefire:
Now I see...

lol..I saw you viewing. I was expecting your mention. I am Nupe by tribe.

modath:
Modath ti wa si ori eto,

Midolian, eyin na e wa bawa da si eto yi oo.

Present!

I no too hear yoruba o!

I can see yoruba everywhere on this thread

The acting Kano State Governor, Hafiz Abubakar, today ordered the shutting down of Hassan Gwarzo College following recent media reports that homosexual acts were widespread at the institution. 

The acting governor directed the Private and Voluntary Schools Board to immediately ensure that the order closing the school was implemented. 

In addition, Mr. Abubakar disclosed that the state government had appointed a 14-member committee to investigate the allegations that students at the school engaged in homosexual acts. The committee, which is headed by a professor, Abubakar Mustapha, is expected to submit its report within two weeks.

http://saharareporters.com/2015/10/30/kano-state-government-shuts-down-college-over-sodomy

Lalasticlala

peeparty:
Never the best anyway..so pathetic.

yea

kiddkash:
Nigeria love jungle justice. if it is America they'll just call the cops, when will we be like them?

The day Mugabe turns gay

peeparty:
Do people still do this??

This is "no time" way of punishing criminals in Africa. It is believed that we africans so much love to keep our private parts private. Imagine getting stripped as the punishment for stealing in the whiteman's land, every oyinbo will be a proud thief

Some angry mob on Wednesday stripped two women naked for stealing N100,000 from a wine shop at Dutsen Alhaji market, Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

It was learnt that the women who pretended to be buying some items on Wednesday entered into the shop at the market and while one of the women approached the shop owner and negotiating the price of a bottle of wine, her accomplice dipped her hand into the drawer and removed N100,000.

According to an eyewitness, “She was about to walk away with the money when the shop owner who had seen her raised the alarm which attracted other traders,” the witness said.

The eyewitness further stated that traders, who noticed what had transpired, pounced on the two women and stripped them naked in the process.

The timely intervention of the police saved them from been lynched and the Police quickly whisked them away from the market.

Confirming the incident, the Dutse Divisional Police Officer, SP Hajiya Aisha Yusuf said the suspects have been charged to court.
https://cdn.dailypost.ng/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Alleged-sex-worker-docked-for-stealing-N17-800-public-unclothedness.jpg?fb3601

http://dailypost.ng/2015/10/30/angry-mob-strips-two-women-naked-over-n100000-theft-in-abuja/

Lalasticlala

Enjoying this

Mr. Clarks said despite all the achievements, like most leaders, Mr. Jonathan must also have had his weakness, and that stating them should not mean disparaging or disowning him.

Hmm..

He said it was “crude and unpolished” for Abati to claim that he would still have been a card carrying member of the PDP if Mr. Jonathan had won re-election.

A former Federal Commissioner for Information, Edwin Clark, has alleged that Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, sabotaged the former president by failing to promote his image and achievements.

Against Mr. Abati’s claims that Mr. Clark no longer considered Mr. Jonathan his ‘son’, Mr. Clark said he still sees the former president as a political son despite gaining nothing from his presidency.
While expressing his resolve to quit partisan politics, Mr. Clark was recently reported as saying Mr. Jonathan “did not have the political will to fight corruption”.

In his response to Mr. Clark’s remark on the ex-president, the former president’s publicist wrote in an opinion article titled, “Clark the Father, Jonathan the Son” that the octogenarian was only making the disparaging remarks because Mr. Jonathan had lost the 2015 election.

“Who would ever think Chief E.K. Clark would publicly disown President Jonathan? He says Jonathan was a weak president. At what point did he come to that realisation?

“Yet, throughout the five years, he spoke loudly against anyone who opposed the president,” Mr. Abati wrote.

Apart from Mr. Abati, many other persons loyal to the ex-president, such as the Ijaw Justice Forum, IJF, and other groups also took exception to the claims by the elder statesman.

But in an email to PREMIUM TIMES Thursday, Mr. Clark said he could not understand why he came under attack over his comments on Mr. Jonathan “for reasons so obvious”.

Mr. Clark said it was curious that Mr. Abati, who he accused of failing to sell Mr. Jonathan’s achievements to Nigerians, could accuse him of disparaging a man he (Abati) was never loyal to.
He said he had to, at a point, point out to Mr. Abati how negligent he is to his duties by not defending Mr. Jonathan against some of the scurrilous attacks against him and also by not promoting the president’s image and well-known achievements of his administration.

“My advice that a publicity committee made up of eminent journalists be put in place in Aso Rock and that media proprietors and senior journalists should be invited to Aso Rock were jettisoned by Abati because of what I suppose is his covetousness, particularly when many journalists and media houses always complained to me that he was not carrying them along,” Mr. Clark said.

“Dr. Reuben Abati has risen to the defence of his last employer too late. He owes the former President apologies for his (Reuben Abati) failure to perform while in office. I should not be used as a scapegoat. I love Goodluck Jonathan and Goodluck Jonathan loves me,” he said.

Mr. Clark also recalled that before his appointment by Mr. Jonathan, Mr. Abati was one of the strongest critics of the president in his Guardian newspaper column.

“I do not recall any favourable remark made by Abati all those years when he was the chairman of the Editorial Board [of the Guardian] and syndicated columnist about the former president, His Excellency, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and the First Lady Dame Patience Jonathan.

“If I recall correctly, they were always the butt of ridicule by Dr. Reuben Abati. In fact, he became so notorious and fearless a critic of former President Jonathan and his wife in the Guardian Newspaper that I had to draw the attention of my cousin the proprietor of the Guardian newspaper to his excesses.

“These vitriolic attacks on former President Jonathan and his wife only stopped when he was appointed the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity by the former president,” he said.

Mr. Clark said Mr. Abati repeatedly lied against him in his article.

He said it was “crude and unpolished” for Abati to claim that he would still have been a card carrying member of the PDP if Mr. Jonathan had won re-election.

“I do not know the background of Dr. Abati but for him to lie and devilishly imagine that I should have remained a PDP card carrying member if President Jonathan had won the election is satanic.”
Jonathan remains my son

He said he remained proud of the performance of Mr. Jonathan in a number of areas such as the railway system, economy, fight against polio and ebola, maternal health, the power sector, etc.

“He tarred more roads than any of his predecessors; he turned agriculture to agro-business, a multibillion dollar business; he built the Almajiri schools in the Northern parts of this country.

“He established new federal universities across this nation; he allowed for free speech across this nation, and did not mind when he was criticised or, even, abused.

“People were not arbitrarily locked up in jail or prison, as he truly respected the rule of law.

“He signed the Freedom of Information Bill into law, which was not done by his predecessors; he modernized the aviation sector; he convoked a National Conference that brought Nigerians together and proffered recommendations on how to better bind Nigerians together as one.

“He sanitized the electoral system of this country, unlike what we had before him, when elections results were announced without actually voting, when ballot snatching were rampant and common place.

“He brought transparency into the electoral process – when people could vote and the votes actually openly counted without violence.

“Today he stands as the first African president to concede an election to an opponent, even before the final counts,” Mr. Clark said.

Mr. Clarks said despite all the achievements, like most leaders, Mr. Jonathan must also have had his weakness, and that stating them should not mean disparaging or disowning him.

“In keeping with my character, I cannot say in private what I cannot say in the public. I do not therefore, reject or disown Jonathan as my beloved political son,” he said.

Why I supported Jonathan

Mr. Clark also took time to give account of why he supported the former president.
He said his support for Mr. Jonathan predated his assumption of office as president and that he was one of the few leaders who ensured a smooth transition of power when the late governor of Bayelsa State, Diepreye Alamieseigha, was impeached.

“Of course, I openly supported President Jonathan not only as my son but also as the first person to emerge from the minorities of the Niger Delta as the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“I had no choice but to support him and I have no regrets. My support is total and unyielding,” he said.
Mr. Clark also said if most of President Jonathan’s close associates and political leaders exhibited such support by exposing all his achievements, rather than the pretence and betrayal they were engaged in, “the story today would have been different”.

“It will be recalled that I had on several occasions openly criticised the former president in the press and in my statements for actions or inactions which were damaging to the president’s image while he was in office.

“When the president failed to check the excesses of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, which included his undue interference with the activities of the EFCC, I did not fail to speak my mind openly in opposition to the president.

“When the president did not deliver on his promise to complete the construction of the East-West Road, I did not fail to speak my mind openly. I even told him publicly that he should not leave the South South people poorer than he met them.

“When the Governors’ Forum appeared to arrogate to itself powers that infringed upon those of the president in the Constitution of Nigeria with impunity, I did not fail to criticise.

“The press conferences and open letters I wrote, which were carried and published by the various media houses are there to confirm this claim. However, with all these, my support for him was and still is total and unshakeable,” he said.
All presidents since 1999 failed to fight corruption
Mr. Clark also said he did not single out Mr. Jonathan on his comments about the inability of Nigerian leaders to fight corruption since the return to democracy in 1999.

He said his comments about corruption were hinged on the fact that “it has been the reason for the neglect of the ordinary man in Nigeria by all governments.”

“I declared, not for the first time, my support for any effort to eradicate the cankerworm from our body polity. I traced the forces that had made the eradication of corruption impossible in time past.

“My analysis did not begin and end with the Goodluck Jonathan administration.

“I actually traced them from the beginning of the Fourth Republic in 1999, with former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo failing to even scratch the surface beyond using some special purpose machinery to harass real and unreal enemies.

“For the eight years of President Obasanjo’s administration, he definitely institutionalised, legitimised and legalised corruption in this country. The cases of Halliburton and Siemens are typical examples.

“Today, former President Olusegun Obasanjo is one of the richest former rulers.

“The same forces were also at play in the time of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, GCFR, when anti-corruption activities slowed down because of some of those who assisted him in his presidential election in 2007.

“A situation where Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, who was facing criminal charge, was playing a significant role in the affairs of Nigeria at Aso Rock such that his former state commissioner for Finance, Mr. David Edebve, became late President Yar’Adua’s Principal Secretary,” he said.

Mr. Clark said he knew that Mr. Jonathan was willing to fight corruption, but was not successful because of his insistence that due process should be followed.

He said Mr. Jonathan could otherwise have initiated investigations into the scandals of Halliburton, Siemens and other alleged corruption charges leveled against some former heads of state and other prominent Nigerians.

“He believed that there are institutions set up by the government such as the EFCC, the ICPC and other anti graft agencies. But regrettably, some of those who surrounded him led by the Attorney General (AG) and Alhaji Hassan Tukur, etc made it impossible for these institutions to work either by stopping them from arresting offenders or prosecuting some of the cases.

“Over 50 high profile corruption cases are still pending in the various courts for over 8 years now. Laughable plea bargains and out of court settlements became the order of the day.

“It was at this juncture, when there was general complaint about the government not aggressively fighting corruption, I addressed an open petition to the then Chief Justice of the Federation, Hon. Justice Dahiru Musdapher, dated 2nd November, 2011, complaining that most of those charged to court especially those of the former governors who have become senators were still pending.

“He promptly replied my letter on 3rd November, 2015. Most of the petitions written against some prominent Nigerians, addressed to the anti graft agencies did not see the light of the day. Ironically, the perpetrators of these corrupt actions were the same persons who attacked former President Jonathan’s inability to eradicate corruption in Nigeria,” Mr. Clark said.

http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/192377-how-reuben-abati-sabotaged-jonathan-edwin-clark.html

Lalasticlala

NgeneUkwenu:
Do you suggest, Buhari controls the Judiciary? Let's be careful with our comments in order not to be misconstrued..

Appeal Courts are made up of eminent justices who have made their marks @the lower courts..

Not at all. I was trying to say if saraki can have his way this time, every other influential corrupt person will in their own time. Remember, the Judiciary is a part of every administration.