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Policemen from Oroworukwo Division in Port
Harcourt have shot dead a suspected armed
robber around Mile Three axis of Diobu in the
Rivers State capital. DAILY POST gathered that the deceased had earlier
been arrested, alongside another suspect, after he
allegedly led members of his gang to rob a
compound on Wechie Street where his mother
leaves, near the Rivers State University of Science
and Technology. However, while he was being taken away by the
police, he pulled a gun and shot at his mother
before one of the policemen fired the shots that
killed him. The woman was immediately rushed to hospital
for treatment, while the body of the suspected
armed robber was taken away by the police.


dailypost.ng/2015/07/02/man-shoots-mother-in-port-harcourt/


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SIX children reportedly drowned when a canoe conveying 14 school children capsized on Wednesday July 1, 2015 morning at Irawe area of Ojo in Lagos State. Eight others, including the boat driver, were rescued. The incident occurred after a fibre canoe reportedly ran into the passenger boat at about 9 a.m. The rescued children, some of whom were said to be primary school pupils and secondary school students, were rushed to Igando General Hospital for treatment. Three of them who swam to safety, were discharged from the hospital at about 5.pm. Officials of Lagos State Emergency Management Authority (LASEMA ) reportedly stormed the scene to commence rescue operation. As at 7.pm., bodies of the six missing children, suspected to have drowned, were yet to be found. Responding, LASEMA ’s General Manager, Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, said the tragedy occurred at Irawe area when a fibre boat collided with a canoe conveying 14 children to their destination. Oke-Osanyintolu stated that eight children and the driver were rescued alive, with five of them taken to Igando General Hospital and three discharged. He said the other six other children were still missing and that rescue operation was still on to remove the children from the water. He disclosed that the children were not putting on live jackets when the accident occurred, adding that the rescue operation was handled by the Local Emergency Committee, led by the Executive Secretary of Ojo Local Government Area. LASEMA officials and others were still combing the water to see if they could get the other children, he added. South West spokesperson for National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Ibrahim Farinloye, also confirmed the incident. According to him, “The 14 school children were being conveyed across Ojo to Irawe jetty . Six children are yet to be recovered as I speak.” Search for more victims were expected to continue on Thursday July 2, 2015 morning.


dailyindependentnig.com/2015/07/six-children-drown-lagos-boat-crash/


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The elections, penultimate Tuesday, of principal officers of the eighth National Assembly, arguably, attempted to loosen the cord tying the broom of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) together. With the ruling party controlling the majority in both chambers of the National Assembly, the party has not shown enough leadership in managing their overwhelming success at the polls. This inability to properly harness the gains of electoral victory is manifesting presently with the acrimony generated by the election of Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker in their respective capacities. While the ruling party initially preferred the candidatures of Yobe Senator Ahmed Lawan and Lagos Representative Femi Gbajabiamila for the respective positions, the “connivance” of a section of the party with members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) upset the political cart of the APC and generated considerable bad- blood within the party. To add insult to injury, the ruling APC suffered further political incursion as the opposition PDP took advantage of the divide within the APC to install one of the their own, Senator Ike Ekweremadu as Deputy Senate President – a seat that should come to APC members in the senate naturally – while at the same time denying oligarchs of the ruling party their desire to have Ali Munguno from Borno State as Deputy Speaker. Fallout of these bungled plans by the APC is the ensuing political crisis that engulfed the party with supposed brothers from the same political fold hurling abuses at each other from opposite ends of the divide. Bola Tinubu, former governor of Lagos State widely acclaimed as “national leader” of the APC was so irked that he said he would “never recognise Bukola as Senate President.” Though the political juggernaut was to later soft- pedal in the manner Saraki emerged by insisting on a public apology from the duo of Saraki and Dogara in national dailies. All is yet to be well within the ruling political party in Africa’s largest democracy. At the last count, Senator Kabir Marafa was demanding the head of Chief John Oyegun, APC’s National Chairman for his “tardiness” in managing the crisis in the fallout of the National Assembly leadership elections. Comrade Timi Frank, deputy national publicity secretary of the APC earlier set the pace in this direction when he alleged that Oyegun was complicit in the apparent flouting of APC’s directives. But a crisis in the ruling party is tantamount to a disservice to the teeming sympathizers of the “change” mantra which the APC heralded and is capable of setting back the aspiration of the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to change the prospects of Nigerians for the
better. It becomes imperative for the ruling party to
douse the tension within the party and set about delivering on the juicy campaign promises in an era of national economic apprehension. For the APC to get her grooves back, the party must look inward and search her soul to get to the roots of the now protracted crisis with a view to salvaging the situation. This soul searching should entail beaming lights on the role of individual party members in the scenario and apportion necessary measures. In the senate, certain lawmakers from the fold of the APC are regarded as rallying points owing to their antecedence and wider reckoning across political divides. These personalities command remarkable influence within and outside the party and the ruling party must rely on such dexterity to calm to raging storm. Among the present crop of Senators, personalities such as Senators Abdullahi Adamu from Nasarawa; Bukar Abba Ibrahim from Yobe; Sola Adeyeye from Osun; Ajayi Borifice from Ondo; Ahmed Sani from Zamfara; Adamu Aliero from Kebbi, and a handful others could be empowered by the party to bring respite to the political crisis. Particularly, Senator Abdullahi Adamu possesses the right virtues and cosmopolitan exposure to rally his colleagues from opposing political divide towards an amicable resolution of the needless crisis. In an exclusive interview with THISDAY shortly before the June 9 election, Adamu warned the ruling party of the possibility of a crisis and told APC “to get it right on selection of principal officers of the incoming assembly.” Regarding the equally regrettable scenario in the House of Representatives, members of the ruling party who have been in the eyes of political storms like former Speaker Ghali Umar Na’aba and Sokoto Governor Aminu Tambuwal could do a good job of
returning the beleaguered House to the path of reason. Certain members of the House who are committed to ensuring that peace prevails in the chambers could also be relied upon to end the unfolding chaos and save the ruling party further public opprobrium. President Buhari should also rise to the occasion by calling his apparently disorganised house to order as the task of legislating for the much needed “change” cannot afford to be sacrificed on the altar of party disagreements. Though the president has hitherto maintained neutrality in the process of selecting the National Assembly leadership, now is the time to show leadership in crisis.



www.thisdaylive.com/articles/how-apc-can-get-back-its-groove/213577/

mistabiola:
Hang him till he lost his last breath .

really,, would that be ur punishment Too bad...


I dont think that is a rape case, and from the story, i dont think she was abducted....

There have been questions asked on criteria taken into consideration by telecoms companies in Nigeria in choosing celebrities to project their brands positively to the people. In Nigeria, where the so-called role models (celebs) have become easy tools of distorting the rich morals of Africa, the use of these showbiz personalities to project brands positively have further made consumers to think these companies are just wasting money for branding. When Glo announced Burna Boy as one of its brand ambassadors, many people had their reservations. This was because some people believed the singer would put the brand into shame. Some had alleged that Burna Boy is arrogant and has a trace of violence in him. Recall that Burna Boy was alleged to have attacked someone in London with a dangerous weapon, which was why it was rumoured that he cannot go to the city to perform. Some hours ago, Burna Boy, whose real name is Damini Ogulu, posted a picture of himself with a gun on his Instagram page. Some of his fans were shocked that a brand ambassador could publicly show off a pistol. This caused series of reactions from some of them. Below are few of the comments;


Chaselavida: Love your songs but is high time you started learning how to comport yourself. Come on man, be mature.


Afamdeluxo: King Burna! Enough child’s play, it’s time for proper branding. You need to package yourself into a brand. Iambangalee is still relevant today because of proper branding. I am not hating, I am a fan. If you listen to me trust me MTV go dey beg you make you come collect award. Soke still on repeat.


Cassieankrah_x: are you on drugs?

Sucre9ja: Am surprise you blind bats are not seeing that this nigga is strapping a caliber weapon.


www.nigeriafilms.com/news/34233/9/glo-ambassador-burna-boy-scares-fans-with-gun.html

sauce of this info pls?


By the way, as nigerians have heard it, they will relax till thursday, and then start causing commmotion again on friday..


Nigerians and deadline shaa...

Merlissa:
That na the hospital pic

i tire ooo my sister...

for 150 to 350 click like

dis otuoke(one rat) na bush oooo....

people should be allowed who they want to marry... As far as they arent causing harm to others.... Freedom of marriage should be a fundamental human right, as long as both parties agree..


nigeria stinks with bigotry...

its the word of atiku's son aganist that of dangote,,
I dunno for u guys,,

Buh i'll bet on dangote's own being true.
There is always a counter story to all these things...

lol, hilarious,,,
Op, are u even sure ur own account can flash mtn to mtn

too bad, what the house of God has turned to... Pastors been deceiving us since 805 B.C,,

nutin can make me come to all these ministries, wetin i dey come find there??

Arsenal have completed the signing of goalkeeper Petr Cech from London rivals Chelsea on a long- term contract for an
undisclosed fee. The 33-year-old completed his medical on Friday
and has now signed a £100,000-a-week contract
(€140,000), immediately making him one of the
club's highest earners alongside Mesut Ozil and
Alexis Sanchez. The £11 million (€15.5m) capture of Cech
represents Arsenal's first signing of the summer,
though Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho had been
hugely reluctant to allow the veteran goalkeeper to
join a rival. Mourinho was keen to retain Cech as backup to
Thibaut Courtois, but owner Roman Abramovich
wanted to show respect for the Czech's 11 years of
distinguished service so ceded to his wishes for
first-team football as well as his desire to keep his young family in London. Cech has played a key role in the most successful
era of the Blues' history, winning four Premier
League titles, the Champions League, Europa
League, FA Cup and League Cup during his time at
Stamford Bridge. Despite being reduced to a bit-part role last season,
Cech still showed his goalkeeping prowess by
recording five clean sheets in his seven Premier
League appearances. His departure leaves Mourinho in need of a new
shot-stopper to provide cover for Courtois, and the Blues have already identified Stoke City's Asmir
Begovic as a primary target for the role. Arsenal, meanwhile, are expected to sell
Fenerbahce target David Ospina to make room for
Cech, with Wojciech Szczesny to be his understudy,
and the Czech could yet be followed to the Emirates
Stadium by Chelsea goalkeeping coach Christophe
Lollichon.

m.goal.com/x/en/news/13151992

nigerians and ghananians have just been colonizing that award for long,,,
Congrats to him

just embarasssing, these senators dont have shame....

Between February and April this year, 28 children
in Shikira community, in Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State, died. The medical reason was not known. One child after another, all under three years of age, developed the same symptoms: had high fever, were restless, cried excessively, convulsed, and then died. Like many rural communities, where superstitious beliefs were strong and provided a mode of explanation, the people blamed it all on witchcraft. There was panic and fear in the three neighbouring communities, Shikira, Magiro and Tungan Kawo, where death had become endemic among children, until David Umaru, the senatorial candidate of the APC in the March 28 National Assembly election, arrived on a vote- seeking campaign. There he learnt of the strange deaths and called in federal intervention, which brought Dr. Sani Gwarzo, from the Federal Ministry of Health, to the community to investigate
the deaths. Dr Gwarzo’s interim clinical diagnosis of the probable cause of death: lead poisoning. That diagnosis was later confirmed by other health authorities.


HUB OF ILLEGALITY

Shikira community is situated on the eastern flanks of Kagara town, the headquarters of Rafi Local Government. Probably about 40 kms from Kagara, it is a herculean environment to access because of the difficult terrain. The road that opens up the area to the world is rugged, undulating, rocky and dirty. It snakes from Kagara through Madaka, the only sizeable town in the axis. It took us one hour, 20 minutes on motorcycles, and when we did arrived at our destination, all our body joints were creaking, the
muscles severely cramped. This heartland is the hub of illegal artisanal mining activities in the eastern axis of the local government. Mining activities have been going on in Shikira communities for over four years. Here and there, there are shallow pits and furrows, where small gold-bearing stones, called quartz, were extracted and then abandoned when they no longer yielded the gem stones. And then the gold
prospectors moved on to new minefields, which abound in the area. But two years ago, a gold prospector, miner and merchant, called Mallam Zamfara Mai Idon Gani Zinari (i.e, the Man from Zamfara who can spot Gold) struck a rich vein of gold in Magami, northward of Shikira, in Shiroro Local Government area, some five kilometres away. Then there was a gold rush. A large number of fortune or gold hunters migrated, in droves, to Shikira, heralding population explosion in a village of barely 2,000 people. The village pulsated with people, all manner of people – prospectors, miners, merchants, millers, speculators, dreamers, mechanics, commercial sex workers, thieves. The burgeoning population meant for the villagers an opportunity
to make brisk profits. One woman, Huzematu Adamu, said she made an average daily food sale of between three to four thousand naira.

MAGAMI MULTIMILLION NAIRA MOTHERLODE


The Magami gold field in nearby Shiroro offered multimillion naira prospects. Sa’adu Ibrahim, 21, who had gone to the Birnin Gwari gold fields to eke a living, hastened back to
his village when he heard of the gold rush there. He worked in Magami with a group for two months before the site was closed. He made over N200,000 during the period, he said. The gold miners excavated the depths of the earth crust, digging pits or burrowing tunnels to trace gold-bearing quartz stones to whatever earthly distance the gold veins travelled underground. There are 21 mining pits in this site, each worked by a team of at least six diggers. Abdullahi Ibrahim Magami claims to have made N5 million from his group’s mining pit In one of the pits, dug by Abdullahi Ibrahim Magami and his colleagues, the gold stones they found sold at over five million naira. Another group of miners said they made over two million naira since the Magami motherlode was discovered. Many of the pits are as deep as ‘Kwakwara’ wells, and they may still sink deeper to underground extremities where oxygen may not be available. Sometimes, the pits are linked through tunnels, in pursuit of gold veins, creating a warren of pits and tunnels. One of the pits, with heavy burden overhead, had collapsed earlier in the year, but luckily no one was hurt. The quartz stones excavated from this site are taken to Shikira, where at the zenith of the gold hunt, there were at leat some 41 stone crushing and grinding machines, which liberate the gold ores from their entrapment in the quartz stones. In the village, there was a proliferation of auxiliary services, such as the provision of machines that whet grinding stones or soldering and welding of broken machine parts. With the closure of the mines, the essential parts of these machines had been canibalised and redeployed in Birnin Gwari, in Kaduna State, or some parts of Zamfara State, where unfettered artisanal mining activities still go on. With the closure of the mines and the processing activities, Shikira has shrunk to its previous size, and the villagers look back at missed opportunities occasioned by the departure of the nouveau visitors. “Mu na cikin matsala yan zu (meaning we are in great hardship now,” complained Sani Nuhu, son of the District Head, Nuhu dan Magiro. The village has fallen into hard times, defined generally by lack of money because the opportunities spawned by gold mining activities have gone. He said before their current sorry state, everybody in the village made money. We asked them what they did with the money, and Mr Nuhu pointed at the gleaming corrugated rooftops, which their newfound wealth had brought. Since
they
made so much
money at the
expense
of public health,
we asked
them if they
would
want a restoration of mining in the area, in spite of the side effects, to which Mr. Nuhu said they wanted the mining, without the deaths. Towards this end,
he said they would like to be taught safe ways to mine. Meanwhile, they would like the state government to mitigate their current suffering by extending poverty alleviation schemes to them or give them cash intervention to pursue other economic activities.


DEADLY LEAD


In its natural state, gold is found mixed up with other minerals such as zinc, lead, silver, copper, etc in quartz rock formation. To extract it, the rock has to be crushed and milled into fine powder. When quartz stones are hacked and hauled from the bowels of the earth, they are brought to Shikira, where the first leg of processing activities began – crushing and milling. This industrial activity releases fine dust particles in the air, the most lethal component of which is lead. At the height of the mining activities, dust haze permanently hung over the village of Shikira, wafting over a large radius of land that include Tungan Kawo and Magiro villages. Every living soul there, including animals and birds, domestic or wild, inhaled the lead- poisoned dust, but the worst affected were children who could not cope with the abnormally high levels of lead. In Shikira, 11 children died while at Tungan Kawo, the worst hit, 17 children passed away. Tungan Kawo is situated southward of Shikira, with Fadama land forming a frontier. Nearby, the gold miners had dug an artificial lake,
wherein they washed off the gold impurities. The lake waters and the one underground are contaminated. In the day time, lethal lead dust drifts over the village, poisoning the air. Lead poisoning has frightful effects. It causes mental retardation, inflicting poor iQ disorder and impairing speech capacity; it damages the kidney and retards muscle and bone growth. It causes anaemia and heats up the body infernally. As a result, children with high lead levels are feverish, cry a lot, enter convulsive spasms, and die. Yet, in spite of its notoriety as a public health hazard in mining communities, especially where unsustainable mining techniques are employed, lead is used in the construction industry and in making water pipes, paints, electric cables, bullets, and solders. In Zamfara State, where the worst case of lead poisoning was reported between 2010 and March, 2013, about 734 under-five children died. One of the 21 mining pits.


INTERVENTIONS

The people of Shikira communities were not abandoned in their hour of need. Beginning from
Mr Umaru, who first drew the attention of health authorities to the plight of the community, there have been a number of policy, cash, and material interventions. Nuhu dan Magiro, the district head of Shikira said the duo of Governor Abubakar Sani Bello and Mr Umaru,now a senator, who on separate occasions visited the area, sympathised with the affected communities and made cash donations. While Governor Bello donated 50bags (50kg) of rice and N200,000 the senator donated N300,000 to the community. The district head also acknowledged the intervention of the Federal Ministry of Health, which dispatched Dr. Gwarzo of the Public Health Department of the ministry, to the area for early epidemiological study. According to him, Dr. Gwarzo ferried the children of 18 affected families
to the clinical facility of Doctors Without Borders in Anka, Zamfara State, where they were treated. On its part, the Niger State government, upon receiving a report of a strange illness affecting children in Shikira communities, dispatched a team of epidemiologists to the area to ascertain the nature and extent of the disease and convened a high profile multi sectoral meeting on
the incident. With the support of Federal Ministry of Health, Doctors Without Borders, and the Centre for Disease Control, a mapping survey was conducted, with the screening of all children under the age of five. The soil and animals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, were also collected to determine the level of lead contamination. The report of of the tests are still being awaited. The government also directed that the mining activities be stopped. Meanwhile, 15 seriously affected children were taken to MSF clinic in Anka, Zamfara State, for treatment. The first set of nine children have returned from the hospital and are receiving followed-up care, while the remaining six are still receiving treatment. Usman Mohammed, director, public health in the state Ministry of Health, said the state government was also considering setting up a treatment centre in Kagara General Hospital. He said the cleaning of the environment is still at the planning stage, with active collaboration from Doctors Without Borders. On its part, the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), said it plans to carry out enlightenment campaigns to the affected areas to create awareness on the dangers associated with illegal mining and on the need to adopt safe mining techniques. The NESREA Assistant State Co-ordinator, Akor Monday, said the organisation would visit the affected area Wednesday this week to ascertain the level and gravity of environmental damage, saying his agency has held a series of meetings with the state Ministry of Mining to identify areas of intervention.

www.premiumtimesng.com/investigationspecial-reports/185765-investigation-shikira-community-where-28-children-die-from-lead-poisoning.html

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INTROVERT:
For guys abi?

abeg leave this space for us na abeg.

Aminat508:
introvert within a sec

asswear, dis girl na flash,, i dunno the carrier she is using,,

Euro31:
get a life

lol,,, dis guy sef.

INTROVERT:
Happy Birthday Babs Fash

INTROVERT, are u a mod Just curious... They should give u FTC award....,,

see how Asiwaju is shining his brown teeth in the last picture..

Happy birthday Sir...

AdimGreat:
Lovely name/moniker

well thank you...

AdimGreat:
Lovely name/moniker

well thank you...

dat 5th woman isnt fine, even with the make up...

the rich also cry..? ....
Banky, pele ooo...

no 10 should be the worst, God knows i cant wish dis for my worst enemy... U start feeling for these kids and their parents.....

ask them if they'll be paying u monthly like the NGO, if they say no, then take the job... All dese inlaws wey no want pesin prosperity.. Jobs are hard to find nowadays

redcliff:
I think out of everyhting in that movie, the storyline annoyed me the most. No construction and no structure...3/10 rating for story line...

ok, its ur opinion though,