Monday 13 October 2014

'Nigeria has Become Preferred Destination for Foreign Investors'


The Regional Director, United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), Dr. Patrick Kormawa, yesterday said Nigeria has become the preferred destination for foreign investors.

Kormawa who made this disclosure at the 22nd fellows conference of the Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers (NSChE) held in Lagos, said estimates have shown that Nigeria is a viable field for foreign  investors.

EXCLUSIVE: Lagos Police Arrest Notorious Trans-border Armed Gang


The Lagos State Police command today arrested and paraded a nine-man trans-border armed gang who specialise in snatching exotic cars from their victims.

The kingpin who was identified as Benard Bongy and his gang members were arrested by a team of operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) led by their commander, Abba Kyari, a Superintendent of Police.

EXCLUSIVE: Police to parade owner and dogs for eating boy's skull


The Lagos State Police Commissioner, Kayode Aderanti today said the command had finally arrested a dog and its owner that attacked four-year-old boy in Lagos at the Igando area of Lagos.

Wednesday 24 September 2014

EXCLUSIVE; Lagos Police Reinforce Ban on Okada




The Lagos State Police Command said it has observed with total dismay that some Okada riders do not have any iota of respect to the laws of the land as they have continuously and flagrantly breached this traffic law although the Lagos State Government in 2012 amended its road traffic law which expressly banned and restricted motorcycles from plying some specific routes in the State.
 

Ezekwesili Claims One of the Chibok Girls has been rescued


The  leader of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG), Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili late yesterday night claimed one of the Chibok girls has been rescued alive. This is coming after Tuesday upheaval when it was claimed that the 219 abducted Chibok girls had been released.

Tweeting from @obyezeks at about 11.17pm, Ezekwesili said Chibok girl was simply identified as Susan.

Tuesday 23 September 2014

Synagogue Tragedy: 'No Same Aircraft Can Fly Four Times in that Route'


Puncturing claims that a 'strange' aircraft had flown over the Lagos headquarters of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations (SOAN), in Ikotun, four consecutive times before it collapsed, preliminary investigations has revealed that it was nearly impossible.

How South African Survived Five Days Under Synagogue Rubble


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Lindiwe Ndwandwe 

Days after she came out of the rubble of the Synagogue Church of All Nations (SCOAN) building collapse, South African Lindiwe Ndwandwe, finally recounted her five-day ordeal, adding that she survived on her urine.
In a 20-minutes video Ndwandwe attributed her rescue to her faith in God. According to her, she had survived by drinking her urine after she got dehydrated.

She said, "I was trapped in the toilet for five days. I was hungry and thirsty throughout my stay there. I couldn't even move so I was just lying down because there was no leg or head room to move around.

Rescue operations had been ongoing for four days when she walked out unaided on the fifth day, at about 2am last week Tuesday after excavation had been done in the section of where she was trapped.

She said, "I was about to eat when I decided to visit the restroom. When I was there, I heard this noise and then the ceiling of the toilet came crumbling down.

"I heard people praying but I was alone in that place. I tried to sleep but it was difficult. It was through a hole that I knew whether it was day or night. 

"On the third day, I knew they were rescuing people because I stopped hearing the voices of my neighbours."

On how she survived she said, "Remember I was about to eat when I decided to visit the rest room. 
When I was hungry, it was then I started having a conversation with God. Anytime I was hungry or thirsty and I told God, I will just fall asleep. On the fourth day, I was becoming weaker.

"And I was more thirsty. It then occurred to me that the only thing to do was to drink my urine. But I couldn't even do that because I was lying on my side and the ceiling was hanging over me.

"I removed my vest from her neck, put it round legs and urinated on it. The same urine-soaked vest was what I sucked on anytime I got thirsty."

On how she was rescued, she said she heard two men arguing on whether to dig where she was or not and when they did, she came out alive with few bruises on her arms.

She said, "When I was rescued and I called my husband, the only thing he could say was thank God. I could hear the loud shouts of my family rejoicing in the background."

After the interview, she was again led to the site of the building collapse, where she broke down upon sighting the wreckage from where she crawled out from, muttering that it was God that saved her.

Chibok Girls: Dashed Hopes of BBOG as Army Refutes Claim of Rescue


Hopes were dashed, joy squashed and euphoria diminished for the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group when the Defence headquarters yesterday refuted earlier rumours making the rounds that the Chibok girls had been released.

Exclusive: Security Expert Deplores Suicide Attack on Schools


Deploring the recent double suicide terrorist attacks that occurred at the Federal College of Education Kano which resulted in the death of 17 persons and injured 35 others, security expert, Dr. Ona Ekhomu, said it was shameful and unacceptable.

Tuesday 15 July 2014

Breaking News: The War is Over- Nyako has been impeached


Governor Murtala Nyako of Adamawa


He put up a valiant fight but few minutes ago, the embattled  Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako, was impeached by the state House of Assembly,

This is coming hours after his deputy Bala Ngilari, resigned from office to avoid being impeached and his resignation letter was read at plenary by the speaker of the Assembly, Umaru Fintiri, after which the lawmakers approved it.