Saturday 22 April 2017
SAD ! 20 School Children & Driver Burnt To Death In SA Minibus Crash
No fewer than 20 pupils have died after a minibus they were travelling in crashed into a lorry just outside Bronkhortspruit in Gauteng, South Africa on Friday. The bus burst into flames, and most of the children were trapped inside.
ER24 spokesperson Russel Meiring said fire services managed to extinguish the burning vehicle, which was found lying on its side.
Russel Meiring, ER24 spokesman said. "It is confirmed 20 children have been killed."
"Paramedics arrived on the scene to find the fire services already in attendance. The fire services had already extinguished the burning vehicle, which was found lying on its side." "Unfortunately, nothing could be done for the children and they were declared dead on the scene," Meiring said.
The truck driver survived, so did several other children who sustained injuries and had to be dragged from the wreckage by people at the scene. The dead children and the dead minibus driver lay trapped inside the bus that stood on its side. Some of the bodies of the children were charred beyond recognition. SAD!
Kaduna To Replace Firewood Use With Cooking Gas
Kaduna state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Andrew Nok, has said that the state government would phase out the use of firewood in its 29 boarding schools across the state.
Nok said that already contract had been awarded for the supply of cooking gas, burners, tanks, pots, boilers and other cooking equipment for distribution to the schools.
He made this known while receiving the second phase of the supplies at Queen Amina College Kaduna on Saturday.
Nok, who was represented by the ministry’s Director for Higher Education, Mr John Gorah, said that using gas was cheaper, more hygienic, healthy and safe with minimal health risk compared with firewood.
“Using gas ensures clean environment, clean kitchen, clean cooking equipment, clean food and, of course, clean and healthy cooks.
“This is the second phase of the supplies. We have received the first consignment some time ago, and remaining the third phase which would be in two to three months’ time.
“So in the next two to three months all boarding schools in the state would not be using firewood to cook. They would be using gas, which is cheaper and healthier,” the commissioner said.
On his part, the contractor, Mr Maiwada Buhari, assured the state government that the third phase of the supplies would be ready in three months.
Buhari said that the delay was because the equipment was coming from the United States and Turkey.
Queen Amina Vice Principal Academy, Malam Abdulsalam Abubakar, thanked the state government for the efforts, saying it would ensure hygienic food and healthy environment.
Abubakar told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the new cooking system would boost the morale of the cooks who are mostly aged women and improve the quality of feeding of students.
NDLEA Arrest Notorious Cocaine Dealer In Adamawa
The Adamawa State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency has confirmed the arrest and successful prosecution of a notorious cocaine dealer, Ahmed Buba, popularly known as ” Ajebo”.
Mr. Buba was nabbed with 13.9 grams of cracked cocaine.
Yakubu Kibo, the state commander of the agency, confirmed the development to journalists in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
Mr. Kibo described the arrest as first of its kind in the history of cocaine seizures in the state, saying the drug kingpin, after his arrest, was charged to the Federal High Court, Yola, on April 12, 2017.
He was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment without the option of fine, the NDLEA official said.
He said the agency conducted intensive laboratory test and that the substance found with Mr. Buba, was confirmed to be cocaine mixed with Soda Bicarbonate.
Mr. Kibo said the drug dealer was arrested in Yola town, in front of Modibbo Adama University of Technology Distance Learning Centre with the illicit drug concealed in a car brain box.
He said his agency trailed the kingpin for six months following intelligence report on his activities.
He said after thorough investigation and search of his home at Wuro-Chekke ward in Yola South Local Government area , the kingpin admitted to have been in the illicit business for the past two years.
He described Mr. Buba, 37, as the main source of cocaine supply to many higher institutions of learning in the state.
The commander said the kingpin had wasted the lives of many innocent youth in the state who he said became addicted to cocaine.
“Ahmed Buba has confirmed to the command that the source of his cocaine is from Abuja,” Mr. Kibo said.
He said drugs cartels were now using vehicles spare parts popularly known as ” Belgium” to avoid being detected at security check points.
He warned that the command would not relent in its efforts of ridding the state of hard drugs. - PT
Mr. Buba was nabbed with 13.9 grams of cracked cocaine.
Yakubu Kibo, the state commander of the agency, confirmed the development to journalists in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
Mr. Kibo described the arrest as first of its kind in the history of cocaine seizures in the state, saying the drug kingpin, after his arrest, was charged to the Federal High Court, Yola, on April 12, 2017.
He was convicted and sentenced to five years imprisonment without the option of fine, the NDLEA official said.
He said the agency conducted intensive laboratory test and that the substance found with Mr. Buba, was confirmed to be cocaine mixed with Soda Bicarbonate.
Mr. Kibo said the drug dealer was arrested in Yola town, in front of Modibbo Adama University of Technology Distance Learning Centre with the illicit drug concealed in a car brain box.
He said his agency trailed the kingpin for six months following intelligence report on his activities.
He said after thorough investigation and search of his home at Wuro-Chekke ward in Yola South Local Government area , the kingpin admitted to have been in the illicit business for the past two years.
He described Mr. Buba, 37, as the main source of cocaine supply to many higher institutions of learning in the state.
The commander said the kingpin had wasted the lives of many innocent youth in the state who he said became addicted to cocaine.
“Ahmed Buba has confirmed to the command that the source of his cocaine is from Abuja,” Mr. Kibo said.
He said drugs cartels were now using vehicles spare parts popularly known as ” Belgium” to avoid being detected at security check points.
He warned that the command would not relent in its efforts of ridding the state of hard drugs. - PT
Chinese railway firm to open varsity in Nigeria
The executive president of China Railway Construction Corporation Limited, Cao Baogang told a delegation of Nigerian journalists, at its headquarters, in Beijing, yesterday, that, a university will be built in Lagos State or Port Harcourt, Rivers State as part of its technology transfer policy.
“We want to build a college or university; either in Lagos or Port Harcourt, for training Nigerians. As in China, we have a university called Beijing Jiaotong University, Chengdu. In Nigeria, I think we need another Jiaotong university.
“We fully support technology transfer, because, in 2015, President Xi Jinping fully spoke about it. We will try our best to do that and put one in Nigeria,” Baogang said.
He, however, disclosed that the railway firm has had to contend with Boko Haram in the North.
“In 2011, Boko Haram killed some of our staff in Maiduguri, Borno and Yobe states but, we will try our best with the Federal, state local governments to get working again because security is most important for any economy to thrive.Without security, the economy cannot thrive. Railways are important for Nigeria…Funding is important and it’s a difficult time for Nigeria because of the crash in crude oil price, which is affecting availability of funds…”
Baogang said CRCC is undeterred because “Nigeria is the biggest, important market” followed by Angola, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa.
He also spoke on the Kaduna/Abuja railway project which he said was “completed in July 2016, at an estimated $850 million” and financing of new structures at Abuja, Lagos, Port Harcourt, and Kaduna airports, with $1.2 billion loan from China-EXIM Bank.
On his part, Vice President of China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC), a subsidiary of CRCC, Zhang Wenjin, disclosed CRCC is the “major investor” in Lekki Free Zone and reiterated it as an “important platform for Chinese and international companies,” which, when completed, will “improve Nigeria’s industrialisation.”
Weijun added that the most important part of the Lekki Free Zone is the Deep Sea Port, of which talks with the Lagos State Government are on-going.
“Money is no problem for CRCC but infrastructure is most important. Deep Sea Port is most important for the Lekki Free Zone but, discussion has not been concluded.
Author of Eze Goes To School, Onuora Nzekwu, Is Dead
Nzekwu, author of Eze Goes to School novel, died by 4.30p.m. on Friday in his home in Onitsha, Anambra, where he had been living in retirement, a family member, Louis Chuke, said.
He worked as editorial assistant from 1956 - 1958 when he took over the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine.
In 1966 when the Nigerian civil war broke out, he transferred his services to the Eastern Nigeria Public Service and returned to the federal service at the end of the crisis in 1970.
He served as General Manager of NAN from 1979 to 1985.
Mr. Nzekwu wrote Troubled Dust, a novel that recounts the experiences of the civil war.
May his soul rest in perfect peace.
Sad ! Nollywood Actor Olumide Bakare Is Dead
“His situation however gone bad during the procedure and he could not make it. So he died,” a close family source Abiodun Alarape said. Bakare, it was learnt, was rushed to UCH on January 24, after suffering cardiac arrest.
His condition was however said to have improved, until he went in for the procedure and failed to make it out alive. His death came as a shock to his numerous fans.
RIP.
How I Organised Soboma George’s Murder, Kidnapped VC In Rivers State – Suspect
Before his murder, the name Soboma was one that instilled both fear and respect among militants in the Niger Delta.
Pepple, a native of Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State who claimed to have been a safety officer with Nigeria Agip Company and Health and Environment Supervisor with Saipem at some point, was nabbed over the 2015 kidnap of the embattled former Vice Chancellor of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Prof. Rosemund Green-Osahogulu.
But investigation later connected him to Soboma’s murder, which he explained that he planned as a result of his uncle’s murder and a N60m, which the militants swindled his ‘boys’ over.
During the arrest of the suspects accused of killing Soboma in 2010, they had alleged that they killed him because they could not carry out his order to assassinate the then Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, but Pepple said that was just a confession he coached them to tell the police.
Pepple claimed that he had got to a position at Saipem which offered him opportunity to travel widely for trainings before he decided to resign his job.
He said, “With all the experience and training, I left the company and decided to work with my uncle, Wilson Alison, who was the treasurer of the Ijaw National Congress at the time. My uncle needed someone he could trust.
“In 2010, my uncle wanted to divorce his wife because he discovered that she was too fetish. He told me that he learnt she slept with his friend in the US. He then filed for a divorce and that started a problem between them.
“I was told she paid N10m to Soboma to eliminate my uncle. Shortly after, my uncle was killed on Orazi Road around GRA Port Harcourt. Four men on two motorcycles killed him with AK47 rifles.
“I was not in town at the time but when I got back, I went to the police to take the corpse to the mortuary. After that, I embarked on my own investigation and learnt that he was killed by Soboma’s boys after my uncle’s wife paid N10m.
“I confronted her about it but she got angry and called me a cultist and militant. She reported me to the police and the military joint task force who started searching for me.”
Pepple said he also learnt that Soboma’s boys were looking for him and he decided to go underground.”
People claimed that few months after he went underground, two of his friends, whom he identified as Ayi and Blackee, did a job for a governor, who decided to pay them N60m. But they said they did not want to keep the money in their accounts and were looking for an account where it could be paid without it being traced.
He said the men mentioned Soboma’s name as one of their acquaintances, who had the personality to keep such money in his account.
Pepple said, “I told them that I did not trust Soboma because he was the one who killed my uncle. Because he was their friend, they did not heed my advice. The money was eventually paid into Soboma’s account.
“When it was time for them to collect their money, Soboma refused to give it to them. He ordered them out of his house. They came to me crying that he had betrayed them and asked what they could do. I told them I already had a score to settle with Soboma and suggested that we should kill him.”
Pepple said they contacted a spiritualist who made the militant weak and easy for them to trap and kill.
According to him, the spiritualist did many rituals because Soboma was very powerful and he had some forces guarding him.
He explained that at the right time, the spiritualist gave them the go-ahead.
Punch reports that Soboma was later gunned down along with his girlfriend on a Saturday after a football game he participated in.
Pepple said he was watching Soboma close to the football field and giving orders by phone to Ayi and Blackee on the right time to move in on the victim.
“Ayi was the first person who came out with a gun and when Soboma saw him he wanted to run and they opened fire on him and killed him on the spot with his girlfriend. The four men guarding him fled when the shooting started. I took a motorcycle and left the scene. Ayi and Blackee did not put on masks so, everybody saw their faces.
“I had told them that if they were arrested over the death of Soboma, they should tell the police that Soboma paid them N60m to kill Governor Rotimi Amaechi, then maybe they might be released because of that. Shortly after that, my uncle’s wife died.”
After the killing, Ayi and Blackee were reportedly arrested in Ondo State. But Pepple said he fled Nigeria and got a job offer with an oil company in Abu Dhabi.
He said he returned to Nigeria in December 2014 with the money he had saved and intended to go into oil bunkering.
According to him, he met a man he identified by the alias “Full Payment” who told him to help keep four AK47 rifles. He would later team up with another acquaintance he called Dokubo to use the weapons for kidnapping
“Dokubo suggested that we should go for ‘fishing’, which means kidnapping people driving flashy cars and forcing them to pay ransom.
One of their victims between 2014 and 2015 was Prof. Green-Osahogulu. Now he's been nabbed.
Funke Akindele and Her Friend 'Toyo Baby' of Jenifa's Diary Part Ways
It was disclosed that Funke and Toyo had a disagreement and have gone their separate ways.
Filming is said to have commenced for the latest season of Jenifa's Diaries and Toyo Baby has been absent in all the behind the scenes pics posted online.
Rumours also have it that they are also no longer following each other on Instagram.
Buhari Expresses Shock Over Death Of Football Fans In Calabar
In a statement by his spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, President Buhari “commends the State Government for the prompt action in setting up a commission of inquiry into the incident, and its offer of assistance to the victims and their families.”
The President also offered “his deepest condolences to the family and friends of the mostly young victims, whose sudden demise is a big blow not only to their families, but also to the football-loving nation.”
He prayed God Almighty to grant the souls of the departed eternal rest and comfort all who mourn their irreparable loss.
Ajayi Crowther University Expels 29 Students, Suspends 9 with Immediate Effect
The school also suspended 9 students, while 3 got letters of warning, making it clear the school's “Management will not entertain personal appeals from parents and sponsors in regard to these decisions.”
According to Daily Post, some male students assaulted ACU Vice Chancellor, Professor Dapo Folorunsho Asaju, two weeks ago, and in anger, he ordered that the school be shut and ordered immediate probe.
It was gathered that trouble had started when some male students of ‘Ibadan Hostel’ and ‘JA (Joseph Adetiloye) Hostel’ allegedly fought over a female student.
The VC was said to have directed internal security personnel to put the situation under control before it escalated.
A source in the school said; “When security staff got there, the guys rather than stop the commotion continued. Some students then poured water on the security personnel.
“Word got to the VC who decided to personally intervene. On his arrival, the students got violent and said he should leave.
“As the situation got tensed, some yet-to-be-identified poured water and thrash on him. Prof Asaju was so angry that he cursed them and vowed to take action”.
On Friday, April 21, some of those expelled appeared before the Students Disciplinary Committee (SDC) over the incident. Others had pending cases which were also investigated.
See The 23yrs old lady Who Stabs Female Neighbour for Mocking Her over 65-year Old Hubby
The incident happened at 48, Fatusi Street, Ejigbo, a suburb of Lagos where they reside.
It occurred that the Ikare-Akoko, Ondo State-born Rose was betrothed to her husband, Sunday as custom demands after Sunday’s wife died two years ago.
It was gathered that the women ever since they moved into the same building have never agreed on any issue to the extent that their neighbours tried in vain to make peace between them.
On the day the incident happened, PM Express gathered that Rose complained that Margaret had mocked her for getting married to her husband, Sunday who was thrice older than her.
This got Rose angry and she reportedly broke a bottle and stabbed her at the back.
Margaret was said to have bled profusely and was taken to a hospital for a treatment.
The matter was reported to police at Ejigbo division and Rose was arrested and charged to court on Thursday.
She was charged before Magistrate’s court sitting in Ejigbo with assault under the Criminal Code.
She pleaded not guilty.
The prosecutor, Inspector Kenneth Asibor did not object the bail condition but reminded the court the injury was serious.
The presiding Magistrate, Mrs J.O.E Adeyemi granted her bail in the sum of N50,000 with two sureties in like sum.
She was remanded in prison pending when she will perfect her bail.
The matter was adjourned till 9 May 2017.
Meet The Nigerian Woman Who Marries Lesbian Partner In US
A Nigerian lesbian woman, 53yrs old Moji Solar-Percy, walked down the aisle with her American ‘wife’ on Tuesday in the US, celebrating the freedom that she would not have had in Nigeria.
Solar-Percy, a real estate mogul, runs a company, Solar Worldwide Realty Inc. in Staten Island, New York. She gushed about her love for the woman, with whom she probably would have been arrested if the wedding had taken place in Nigeria.
Solar-Percy, who describes herself as a mother, realtor, LGBT activist, speaker, coach and host on her Facebook page, did not reveal the name of her partner.
She wrote on her Facebook wall;
“Today I woke up in a cold sweat. I was drenched with fear, for a moment. I forgot where I was. I ask you all to close your eyes, imagine what would have happened Saturday at our wedding if we were in Nigeria.
“Even though we went to great lengths to make sure we had security, the thought of the police barging in and arresting all our guests, my wife and I, to be carted off to jail, the women raped and beaten, the men brutalised, and my children beaten along with everyone else.
“When I got my bearings, I got on my knees and thanked God for his grace of living in the US. Then I remembered all the people that could not do what we did with grace and class.To all of you (gay) all over Africa, #westandforyou. May all our days be filled with blessings and grace.”
In Nigeria, such a gay marriage would have met with a clampdown from authorities as a result of the country’s Same-S*x Marriage (Prohibition) Law, which prescribes up to 14 years jail.
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