₦airaland Forum

Of the 275 persons that were rescued and handed over to the National Emergency Management Agency by the 23 Armoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army about two weeks ago, 63 children were unaccompanied while six women have been confirmed pregnant.

It was learnt that more rescued victims from insurgents in Sambisa Forest were still being expected from the Nigerian Army as the Federal Government, in conjunction with humanitarian experts from the United Nations, were working hard to help reintegrate the women and children with their respective families.

NEMA’s Senior Information Officer, Mr. Sani Datti, confirmed to our correspondent on Sunday that the rescued victims were being catered for in various camps by the agency and the UN.

He noted that the UN Resident Coordinator in Nigeria, Daouda Toure, and NEMA’s Director-General, Mohammed Sani Sidi, assured the rescued women and children of social, psychological and health supports before they reintegrate with their families.

The duo made the pledge when they interacted with the Internally Displaced Persons at Malkohi Camp, Yola.

Sidi said the agency had engaged tailors to sew at least five sets of clothes for each of the rescued women and children as most of them came with only the clothes they wore.

The NEMA DG said a mobile clinic had been deployed for medical screening to identify those who need treatment, while the agency, in collaboration with UN agencies, had mobilised a team of experts in psycho trauma counselling and medical doctors to provide all the necessary medical care to the rescued.

He said most of the rescued children were severely malnourished and had eye infections.

Toure told the rescued women and children that the world and their families had missed them but the UN agencies would support the Nigerian government in providing their needs to facilitate their reintegration with their communities.

He said the UN had directed all its relevant agencies to provide all the needed assistance and support to them.

According to NEMA, infant feeding, children’s clothes, diapers and sanitation items were provided to 21 nursing mothers.

The 23 Armoured Brigade of the Nigerian Army based in Yola, Adamawa State, handed over 275 women and children rescued from insurgents in Sambisa forest to NEMA for rehabilitation.

The Commander, 23 Armoured Brigade, Col. Aba Popoola, was quoted as saying that “on behalf of the Nigerian Army, I want to hand over 275 rescued women and children that we rescued from Sambisa forest to the National Emergency Management Agency for care and welfare.”

http://www.punchng.com/news/63-unaccompanied-children-six-pregnant-women-among-those-rescued/

Great

paparazzi1987:
This man is very funny..
You want make I spend weeks inside cell be that.

Nigerian police will always look for a way to extort you just like this |

Finally the change is here !!!

Police is now our friend

Ayus34:
JESUS CHRIST WAS REJECTED BY HIS PEOPLE......THE JEWs how about that?

Please Kindly keep Jesus out of this
And don't ever draw such a comparison again in your life

To avoid dragging mohammed into this discourse

abduljabbar4:
Amaechi the real hero

In the North and southwest
But a curse to his people


Which do you prefer?

Lol

Do you have a Choice?

midolian:
Buhari won't pardon anybody..He is the kinda person that, even if his eye looks in the wrong direction/illegally, he won't hesitate to pluck it out. Let's not forget in a hurry why he divorced his first wife.. He hates corruption soo bad. And time will prove this

I will believe you when I see Tinubu and Amaechi in jail.

Till then, story for the gods of lagoon

francizy:
if Buhari will fight all corrupt officials/politicians in APC, PDP and every other parties, I will become his fan for life. He has to probe all past and present leaders and officials who were involved on corrupt practices for me to take his fight against corruption serious.

I wish him the best tho..

I thought nairalanders said it was only those in PDP that will go to jail.

Is there any corrupt politician in APC?

I will only believe buhari wants to fight corruption the day I see Tinubu and Amaechi in prison.
Until then, its story for the gods

Imagine Africans vying and winning elections in the UK without the queen threatening them with lagoon and the British calling them strangers?

My advice to the parliamentarian-elects:
Don't model any Nigerian politician especially Obasanjo and Tinubu

Good for him

David Cameron will be returned for a second term as the UK Prime Minister with an expanded mandate for his Conservative Party.

The BBC is projecting that the Conservatives will come within a single vote of being able to govern alone. But even if they come up short, Cameron will have a clear mandate to put together a government with the support of minor parties.

The scale of Cameron’s win has come as a
shock, particularly for Labour leader Ed Miliband who had hoped to oust the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition.



Miliband conceded it had been a “very disappointing and difficult night for the Labour Party”.

Labour has relinquished dozens of seats and failed to grab key marginals. It has been all but wiped out by the Scottish National Party in seats north of the English border.

The Liberal Democrats suffered even heavier losses and party leader Nick Clegg appeared to indicate he will step down.

The Conservatives, on the other hand, have picked up a few seats. A Government in the UK needs 326 votes in the House of Commons to command a majority.

In its latest projection, the BBC predicted the Conservatives would win 325 seats, Labour 232, the SNP 56, Liberal Democrats 12, Democratic Unionist Party 8 and UKIP 2.

– Stuff.co.nz

http://www.rockcitygist.com/david-cameron-wins-uk-election-see-results/

The southwest has finally taken over ritual killing in Nigeria. Those that used to hate money now love it more than the Igbos.

Tribalists beware!
No tribe has a monopoly of crime.
Stop your bigotry

deltalife:
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday struck out a suit filed by the 19 All Progressives Congress (APC) lawmakers, challenging the removal of the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Adewale Omirin and his deputy, Adesegun Orisalade. Justice Saliu Saidu, who gave the ruling, awarded a cost of N100, 000 against Omirin and 18 other lawmakers.

The judge struck out the suit after listening to the submission of the counsel to the APC lawmakers, Mr Norrison Quackers, represented by Mr Onyeka Ofoegbu. He had urged the court to strike out the suit without cost. Counsel to the defendants, Mr Kayode Olufala, urged the court to dismiss the plaintiffs’ suit with a substantial cost.



The PDP lawmakers, while urging the court to dismiss plaintiffs’ suit, supported their application with the provisions of Order 15 Rule 2 (1) of the Federal High Court Civil Procedure Rules. Saidu said:“I have gone through the notice of discountenance and objection filed by the defendants, urging the court to dismiss the plaintiffs’ suit.

“The defendants have taken steps in this case by the processes they filed, saying this case ought to be dismissed and not struck out. “The issue in a situation like this where the defendants have taken steps is left at the discretion of the court in the case of Rear Admiral Ebi Borpeni Vs Darabella Nigeria Ltd; 2014.

“However, this issue has been well discussed in the case of Abayomi Babatunde Vs Pan Atlantic Shipping and Transport Agency Ltd and others where the court was urged not to close the door of justice. “In the present democratic setting in this country, I am cautioned to take the path of striking out the case rather than dismissal.

“I hereby strike out this case with a cost of N100,000 against the plaintiffs in favour of the first to eight and twelve to fourteen defendants.” The APC lawmakers had challenged the removal of Omirin and his deputy. The suit which was filed in December 2014, was seeking, among others, an order restraining the factional Speaker of the House, Dele Olugbemi, and his deputy, Olayinka Abeni, from either parading themselves as or executing duties in the capacity of the leaders of the House.

But the lawmakers, through their counsel, Quakers (SAN), had on April 9, filed a notice dated April 7 to discontinue the case. Though no reason was given in the notice of discontinuance of the suit, the action followed the argument by Fayose that Omirin and Orisalade lacked the locus standi to commence any impeachment proceedings against him since they had been impeached and were currently challenging their impeachment in court.

The defendants in the suit are Olugbemi, Samuel Ajibola, Adeojo Alexander, Adeloye Adeyinka, Isreal Olowo Ajiboye, Fatunbi Olajide, and Olayinka Abeni. Gov. Ayodele Fayose, the Department of State Security, (DSS), the Inspector General of Police, Ekiti State Commissioner of Police, Mr Owoseni Ajayi, Mr Kayode Oso, and Chief Toyin Ojo (nine to fourteen defendants respectively).
Omirin and his deputy, Orisalade, were impeached by seven PDP lawmakers on Nov. 20, 2014, on the floor of the House.
at Thursday, May 07, 2015

Are you a learner?
Add your source abeg

Chai.......

Fayose is not only the man of the people but also the man of the gods.

Fighting Fayose tantamounts to fighting both the people and the gods, which is evident that you can't win.

Detractors beware!!!

sebali:
I wish more and more of dem slumps and dies.

I would have supported you if your father was among them

Cc: lalasticlala, Ishilove and other mods on duty

Vicadonis:
Obasanjo's middle name should be 'corruption'. Olusegun Corruption Obasanjo

Since he's now in APC, he's now Saint Olusegun Obasanjo, just like saint Thiefnubuuuu

Aunty Oby, shebi na you ask for emperical evidence? Come and see for yourself.

More are still on the way

otijah:
Jonathan is still pleading with buhari not to send him and his wife to jail

banttieman:
No no no Baba. don't listen to his pleas.

Ipledge:
Hope he no chop for there,but they tell Buhari not go Aso Rock
Baba next time,tell him to come Daura or no meeting

folabayo1:
If jona like make he meet buhari for corner all we want is for him to handover and get d hell out enough of his hiding and seek game.
Too late to bite fingers

folabayo1:
If jona like make he meet buhari for corner all we want is for him to handover and get d hell out enough of his hiding and seek game.
Too late to bite fingers

I used to think you guys were sane
You just proved me wrong

Why can't Amaechi simply emulate GEJ's magnanimity and sportsmanship and kindly show Wike around the Rivers state government house

Jaiyeola Andrews in Abuja

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday evening held a secret meeting with the president-elect, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd).

The meeting was held behind closed-doors inside the Presidential Villa.

The meeting which was private, was kept away from media presence.

Checks indicated that the meeting started around 9pm, and lasted for  30 minutes.

Presidency source who pleaded anonymity, told THISDAY that the smooth hand over of government on May 29, topped the agenda of the meeting.

The source said though it is not mandatory for Jonathan to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Buhari, but the president may likely attend.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/jonathan-in-secret-meeting-with-buhari/208735/

Tragedy on Thursday struck  the ranks of the Delta State Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) as  a  chieftain of the party ,  Dr. Brown Knowledge Anderson slumped and died in a hotel room in Asaba.

Already detectives from the state police command are trying to unravel the circumstance the led to the death of Anderson.

Dr. Adasen the Delta State Treasurer of the party was reportedly found dead in Hotel Valerie located on Direct Labour Agency road Asaba  few hours he checked into the room.

The deceased who resided in Warri with his family had arrived Asaba to partake in his inauguration as a member of End of Tenure Committee constituted by Governor Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan when the tragedy struck.

Dr. Adasen was reportedly driven to the Hotel on his request to have a moment rest ahead of the ceremony but the driver became apprehensive when his boss who had told him about the inauguration period did not respond.

All efforts by the driver to reach his boss through phone calls did not yield the desired result. This development according to sources prompted the driver to request the Hotel Management for its spare key
to the room where Adasen a medical was discovered dead.

At the state police headquarters, a group of detectives it was learnt had been assembled to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death.


However,   the body has been deposited at the Federal Medical Centre Asaba, as  the Delta State Police Public Relations Officer DSP Celestine Kalu who confirmed the incident said  investigation into the matter  has  commenced

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/delta-pdp-chieftain-slumps-dies-in-hotel-room/208736/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

afuye:
I love him for his stubbornness !

When did stubbornness become a virtue to be admired

okuwehcris:
He is in buhari hand over committee, y not do the same in ur state. The election is over y carry hatred all around. Just imaging all d losers of an election is behaving the same way like him. Amachi for ones pls behave like a responsible man n a govern

He's so pain to see Wike govern Rivers state

While people from the North and Southwest are busy singing the praises of Amaechi calling him a lion who defeated jonathan, those that still love the truth know that Amaechi has no political value both in Rivers State and in the Southsouth, stemming from the fact that he only contributed a meagre 28,000 votes to Buhari's victory while losing a whopping 1.4million votes to GEJ even after 8years in power as a governor.
Worst still, he is so much hated by his own people for using their common wealth to sponsor the ambition of a northerner against their son.
No matter the federal appointment that will be given to Amaechi, he remains the worst loser as charity as the say begins at home.
After frustrating the smooth transition of power to his successor Wike, I'm sure Amaechi does not plan to step into Rivers state for the next 8years.

The name Amaechi has become a curse to his people.

PORT HARCOURT : Failure of governor Chibuike Amaechi to set up a transition committee to interface with the one constituted by the governor elect in Rivers state, Bar Nyesom Wike has been described as an act of impunity.
Secretary of the Transition Committee set up by the Governor Elect, Hon Frank Owhor who briefed the media Thursday at the chamber in the office of the Deputy Governor, old Government House, Port Harcourt said the constitution of Transition Committees by the Governor Elect and the outgoing governor had been the practice in the nation’s democracy since 1999.

Owhor who said it was unfortunate and hypocritical that governor Amaechi who allehedly refused to set up a Transition committee in his state after his candidate lost the guber election was busy in Abuja as a member of a transition Committee interfacing with the one set up by the federal government to ensure smooth transition of power on May 29 .


“In the current democratic dispensation the federal government t led by President Goodluck Jonathan has already set up a transition committee .
President-Elect General Mohammadu Buhari has also set up his transition committee which incidentally has governor Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi CON, as a member.

Unfortunately the outgoing government of Rivers state led by governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has refused , failed and neglected to set up its transition commiittee. It is ironic , hypocritical and smacks of double standards that the outgoing governor of Rivers state, Hon Chibuike Amaechi who is a prominent of the transition committee of the President Elect has rejected all.entraties for a peaceful transition in the state..”, he said.
Continuing the Transition Committee of the governor elect said all efforts it had made to interface with the state government were rebuffed.




http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/05/amaechi-accused-of-refusal-to-set-up-transition-committee/#sthash.44G4xpc0.dpuf

She's a priceless jewel

Great beginning and wish her a happy ending