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Disaster struck early yesterday morning at Arepo Village, Owode in Ogun State when a fire outbreak roasted no fewer than 30 suspected vandals allegedly siphoning petroleum products from a ruptured Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline. Sunday Sun learnt that the fire which started at about 2am was sparked off by vandals who were arguing over who is eligible to fetch from the ruptured pipeline.

It was in the heat of the argument that one of them accidentally released a bullet that led to several explosions. However, operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Task Force on Anti-Pipeline Vandalism Unit, Force Headquarters Annex, Lagos, who were on patrol rushed to the scene to avert further disaster. Sunday Sun learnt that it was in the process that they arrested a medical doctor, Dr Adegboyega (first name withheld by us) and one of the survivors Sunday Reuben on their way to the hospital.

Dr Adegboyega was alleged to be smuggling one of the survivor, who happens to be a vandal to his private clinic for treatment. Confirming the arrest, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Friday Ibadin, who is in charge of the Task Force, said that the explosion started at about 2am on Saturday. “Shortly after the explosion, policemen led by Sector Commander, Lagos, DSP Onaghise Osayande, cordoned off the area to reduce casualties while they awaited the arrival of fire fighters to put out the fire.

It was in the process that they stumbled into a jeep carrying one of the survivors and a medical doctor who was on his way to the hospital. In the course of interrogation, we discovered that the survivor was one of those who participated in the killing of those NNPC officials last year. “Sometime in August, 2012, there was a firebreak which was caused by suspected vandals who burst the pipeline to siphon petroleum products at Arepo Village.” Ibadin said: “Fire fighters are on the ground while we have provided adequate security for any unforeseen attack.

Meanwhile most of the survivors are on the run knowing full well that they are criminals. Reuben is currently receiving treatment in an undisclosed hospital”. Groaning in pain, Reuben sobbed that so many of them who were blown away by the explosion where still alive and dying. In his words: “I was in my house when Suleiman my friend called me that there is a job at Arepo creeks.

He asked me to look for a canoe and come with as many gallons as I can carry. Shortly after I arrived, I saw people arguing while some were fighting before I heard a gun shot. The next thing was an explosion. I was lucky that I wasn’t close to the ruptured pipeline. It was the heat of the fire that affected me. I managed to run to my boat where my mother was waiting. Iya Olabode, our neighbour called a doctor who was about taking me to the hospital when we were arrested by the police.” When asked the number of persons at the creek, Reuben said: “There are so many of us both men and women.

We are more than 30 persons over there and most of them are still inside that fire. Most of them are still in the creeks dying, please help them.”’ Meanwhile, the medical doctor, Adegboyega who is currently battling to exonerate himself insists that he was simply acting according to his oath to protect life. He claimed that he was invited by a customer, Iya Olabode to attend to a patient in her house at Abule Oba, Ikorodu area of Lagos. “I have been a family doctor to Iya Olabode for the past three years.

So when she called me that there is an emergency, I quickly rushed to her house where I saw Reuben badly burnt. I advised her that we should take the man to my clinic for better treatment. We were on our way when the police accosted us”, the doctor explained. Sunday Sun reports that Doctor Adeboyega was given an opportunity to call Iya Olabode to help vindicate him but he got the shock of his life when he called Iya Olabode on phone to come and help him.

It was gathered that her reply was: “Doctor, I don’t know what you are talking about. I only asked you to come and treat a patient and make money. You want me to come and also be arrested because I allowed a pipeline vandal to stay in my house”. Iya Olabode later switched off her phone. Meanwhile, scarcity of fuel looms in Lagos and Ogun state as NNPC has since stopped the flow of PMS through Arepo pipeline pending when the ruptured pipeline would be repaired.

When contacted, the Information Officer of the National Emergency Agency (NEMA), Mr Ibrahim Farinloye told Sunday Sun that only the agency and the NNPC knew the exact route to the scene of the fire, adding that none of the two outfits could access the area as at yesterday evening.

He said that the exact number of casualties was yet to be ascertained and hinted that NEMA and the NNPC would visit the scene of the fire today at about 9 am for accurate assessment of the incident. He said that the supply from the area had been stopped to,“suffocate the fire.” The NEMA spokesman appealed to Nigerians to see oil pipelines as their property and protect them against vandals pointing out that the same pipelines had been vandalized about four times.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/cover/30-die-in-pipeline-fire/

cockyjay: I'm sure our muslim brothers disagree with you they believe it's an act of God. They'll say "Amuwa olorun ni".

Not only the Muslim... Yoruba culture disagree with him also.."Ayanma latorun wa"

Another drain pipe for GEJ's men.... Na who go com dey recharge am 4 dem? so, mak una do budget dat one too o... THEIRS, LIARS

President Jonathan has questioned whether deadly attacks on churches in Nigeria and other violence worldwide could be signs of coming "end times" speaking at an Evangelical Christain Church Service on sunday in Abuja... this is what He said

"I was just wondering, could this be a clear way of telling us that the end times are so close?"

His reply again when he was asked about rebels in Central African Republic whom are pushing to overthrow the present government..

"They were quite close to taking over the capital city, just as Boko Haram is taking over Abuja for me and those working in government to run and hide somewhere else."

and says again as everyone would expect...GEJ never disappoints

"If the idea of Boko Haram is to stop Nigerian from worshiping God, they will not succeed.... If the idea of Boko Haram is to stop government from providing the dividends of democracy, they will not succeed.... God willing and with our commitment, the excesses of Boko Haram and other criminal organisations will be brought to a reasonable control."

As a good Nigerian to all my fellow citizen. Please expect nothing good in 2013 from Mr. GEJ or better-still prayer that our situations do not grow from bad to worse as our president is still waiting for miracle/luck to succeed in office rather than action it requires....

kaorama: Yar'dua was a silently corrupt. Ibori who is languishing in UK prison today was his close associate. He deceptively removed Ribadu from EFCC and took media houses who reported abt his healthj to corut. GEJ is far better

Yar'Adua wasn't anyway corrupt as compare to Jonathan whom has given birth to 100 Iboris..His health was his major challenge why in office yet He was able to resolved ND militant issue, even reduced pump price twice without scarcity of the product with 1/3 of GEJ subsidy money now... Why GEJ till date is yet to figure-out solution on many problems bedeviling the country...Yar'Adua all the way i beg!!(may His soul rest in perfect peace)

lain: Islam is loosing so much relevance, so this strategy of someone writing something on the ground and saying its allah can gradually improve the misguided religion

Islam is not a cosmetic religion like Christianity who seeks relevance on media platform in this deteriorating world called modern age where men prefer/promote New-World-Order agenda over that of God..the happenings in Islamic-world today only makes real & sincere Muslims more steadfast in part of Al'Islam as they are confirmation to the prophecy of Rosul(PBH)that "Islam came as a stranger and it will return as a stranger towards the end time"....
This is not peculiar to only Islam , same thing happened to authentic Judaism after the death of prophet Musa(Moses-PBH) that makes God sentdown prophet Issa(Jesus-PBH) and goes on to authentic Christianity after the departure of prophet Issa(Jesus-PBH) and also makes God sentdown prophet Mohammad(PBH), after which there will not be any other prophet or new religion send to mankind till end of time.

marod: ‘If the Virgin Mary appears wearing a Veil on all her pictures, how can you ask me to sign on a Hijab ban law?’- Roberto Maroni, Italian minister
. They might be very few, but they are usually in all batches in most states. You don't notice them because they are usually exempted from the orientation camp. That is the constitutional provision for them. If they are allowed in Government Institutions, why won't they be allowed to serve? Don't know how they have offended any of you. Please let's learn to respect and tolerate one another. Am sure there is also a lost culture similar to this in your religion. Call them whatever you like, Masquerades, Illiterate, stone age people, ojuju calabar, terrorist, Halloween, Fanatics etc. Those before them were called worse. They are no fanatics. Three hearty cheers to those women of honour.

SECONDED..!!!

DMainMan: When a Jewish monk passes, d west respect him but if it is a Muslim man with beard, d west wil insult him

Christians on this forum abuse and curse Holy Prophet Muhammed (SAW) with joy while no muslim has ever abuse Jesus and ur Jehovah

Yet when we defend and maintain our values, most christians here wil b lamenting like cry babies

This is a true reflection of what is happening in our society. The West steal muslims oil, land, kill innocent children, try christenizing dem. Yet when we muslims, defend our self and values, de label us terrorist.

Thank u sisters for propagating Islam. This is a wake up call for us to increase our faith. Paradise wil b won. In Sha ALLAH

Thats what you get from the hypocrite.. Below pix speaks volume

Women these days have been reduced to nothing but Object of Physical pleasure..

Even late Yar'Adua(Blessed memory) as sickly as He was, things were not as bad as this for the country... Got fuel price reduced twice with neither queue nor scarcity of the product and your now trillion naira subsidy was even then between N400-N500 billion.... Oga GEJ your govt na failure. U no try at all

Even late Yar'Adua(Blessed memory) as sickly as He was, things were not as bad as this for the country... Got fuel price reduced twice with neither queue nor scarcity of the product and your now trillion naira subsidy was even then between N400-N500 billion.... Oga GEJ your govt na failure. U no try at all

strangest: Paid journalism..

Are you blind to the realities on ground?

During your time as petroleum minister, what were you doing differently that they are not doing now that has made the sector totally rotten?

Well, I was lucky again. When I was made a minister, I met an experienced man, a person of great personal integrity, the late Sunday Awoniyi. He was the permanent secretary then before the Supreme Military Council approved the merger of the Nigerian National Oil Corporation (NNOC) and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and made Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Sunday Awoniyi was then the permanent secretary of the ministry. That was when I was sworn in eventually, I think in 1977, it became NNPC when the ministry and the NNOC were merged. He retired from the civil service. Another competent technocrat, Morinho, he became the Director of Petroleum Resources and he had a very competent team of Nigerian engineers, petroleum engineers and chemical engineers. And as minister of petroleum, I signed the contract for Warri Refinery, for Kaduna Refinery, for more than 20 depots all over the country, for laying of pipelines, more than 3200 kilometers and I couldn’t recall Nigeria borrowing a kobo for those projects. And then, by the time I became head of state, because I went to War College in the United States before the military handed over to the Second Republic and came back in 1980 and then, there was coup at the end of 1983. And that time, you can verify from Professor Tam David-West who was Minister of Petroleum Resources. We were exporting 100,000 barrels per day of refined products.

Shame to democrazy & all the PoliticiansLooters... If military regime could record all these achievements and democrazy has nothing and absolutely nothing to point at.....

Useless people....!!!!! Ordinary gas to sufficiently power turbine is still a dream, they are here telling us LPG to phase out kerosene.

Oya...!!! make all Bayelsa political bigshots ready fly helicopter on thursday o, cos dem must come Kaduna for Yakowa funeral as him take come their own too..No kain! Yakowa..RIP

Oshiite: ur father jusc died.ediot

Oya..!!! see the link mak you corse punchnews father too
http://www.punchng.com/news/chime-feared-dead/

stachys: wen d woman finish u... change will b ur best option.

LOL @ your pix...
Abi..!! they will see marriage as bus-stop to their worldly problem including that of their family financial predicament that is as old as herself even sometime older than her

Donmichaelz: in ISLAM u can sleep with ur wife six hours after her death..a religion where their bastard allah promise dem 72 virgins..tel d bastard am nt a womanizer....i dnt knw if seun finds pleasure insulting churches,u beta stop it,i pray u change b4 u end in HELL...no regret i regreted joining dis site.

Fooooool with a baseless statement... Why can't you ask Jesus Christ to promise you also 72 virgins.. Shey! Him na living god, if that's your headache

The Month Societal vices @ peak

Still Imagining some people's comment here... America caught in the act of espionage in another man's country airspace and yet people are still siding them..nawa o.. WHAT A WORLD OF INJUSTICE

https://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64546000/jpg/_64546698_64546696.jpg December 2012



https://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/64543000/jpg/_64543903_57282734.jpg December 2011

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I dey wait for Obama make him com knee down tell Iran again to return this one too.. early xmas gift for the American

Ellashow: Do u wish 2 b dead 2 when it's time 2 reap d fruit of ur labor? Nah
Mind wat u say or wish 4 because one day u'll surely b a potential mother in-law.

Wan ni fe lomi shemi, emi ni ma se iya omo mi kale...

Oooh! Oti gbagbe wipe inu ikoko dudu ni eko funfun ti jade

tellwisdom: Muslims are improving ....Thats lovly

Because such thing are considered improvement in Christendom, so you think other religious are.... If truely He's bold then why planning to hide the location address

kingsniger: It seem you are one of them, if not that both of you are lacking common sense, why can't them seek the judgement of icc

Who controls ICC,Security council & UN, for the past four years Gaza has been under siege of Isreali occupation including west bank seizing their land every single day.. They are all keep mute

Isreali knows their limit that they cannot solely engage Iran in War & win. This explains why they are trying to drag US into war with Iran otherwise, they would have gone ahead & bomb Iran facility the way they arrogantly bombed facilities in other countries like, Sudan, Syria, Iraq.... without anyone consent

ghettodreamz: No more wazobia =N=50.00 distributions.

No more Eba (Garri)

No more 1 congo of rice

Finally, the issue of political thuggery would go into extinction

A new dawn has come for a free and fair elections in Kwara state.

Finally, a great relief to the Kwarans as PDP extinction drew to a close.

A good opportunity/avenue for the ACN Political Party to leverage on, come 2015 elections.

GBAM..!!! Ayie re o da fun oro yi..

Nawa for all this pastors o! Is He the first to be CAN president..., All this protestant churches pastor are all the same.. CAN president or Not!...reaping the congregation of their hard earned money under the pretext of tithe/Gift/seed sowing.. Well shay!! Na naija bad economy make una dey strive.. the day wey our economy go good na that day una bad market start...

Bible as a divine book, from the first page of Genesis to the last page of Revelation the word "Bible" can never be found. What an Irony...

Thank God o!
But funny enough... Its often said that there are few atheist in a sunken ship. Even those atheist claimers & their sympathizer are quick @ saying "thank God" at this incident..... nawa ooo

warrior01: So this man ended up not dying a christian; may baba GOD have mercy on his soul

Faliyazubillah Min zalik....