Friday, March 22, 2013

Reports reaching me has it that nobel writer, Professor Albert Chinualumogu Achebe has passed on.
Achebe passed on in his USA base this morning. He was 82 years of age.
Achebe is best known for his classic novel Things Fall Apart. His last book, There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra, is still making waves.
May his soul rest in peace!!

Friday, March 22, 2013
Fear gripped many residents on Thursday when news filtered that troops numbering about 100 stormed terror suspects' hideout in Ijora, a densely populated part of the city.
The soldiers were arrested by men of the State Security Service, who were believed to have acted on a tip-off. They were said to have stormed the area at around 7am today in search of the suspects said to be members of an Islamic fundamentalist sect, Boko Haram.
It was learnt that their search yielded fruits when two persons were arrested at 24 Aromire Street and three others at a location in an adjacent street.
The soldiers ransacked the building at Aromire Street where one of the arrested persons, Ibrahim Musa, occupied five rooms. A bomb kept in a cooler and hidden inside the ceiling of one of the rooms in Musa's apartment was recovered by the soldiers.
Musa, who a security source described as an illegal alien from Chad, was said to be the leader of the suspects.
Other items found were AK-47 rifles, cartridges and daggers.
The security source who craved anonymity, added that the raid was as a result of an investigation which began a month ago.
He said, "Security agents got information a month ago that there was a terrorist hideout in the Seven Up area of Ijora. Although we were not sure if they were Boko Haram members or not, we did not want to take any chances, so we decided to go and raid the place.
"It was discovered that the place was being run by a Chadian and arms were recovered during the raid, including AK-47 rifles. Investigations are on going, and those not found culpable will be released."
Musa's neighbor who craved anonymity, said that they did not suspect he was a member of Boko Haram.
He said the suspect moved into the house less than three months ago.
"Musa rented his apartment about three months ago. However, since he moved in with his wife, who recently had a baby and a brother, none of them had any known form of livelihood. Musa and his brother, were particularly going about with their laptops and expensive phones.
"Though he (Musa) was not working, he was usually the first to pay for anything in the house. It was when the soldiers came that we got to know what they truly are. It was in the course of beating him that he told the soldiers where he hid the bombs and guns.
When the soldiers were going, they warned the residents to remain vigilant, saying Boko Haram members had infiltrated the area, particularly the Hausa settlement.
The Ojora of Ijora, Oba Fatai Adeyinka expressed shock that Boko Haram members had infiltrated the area.
The spokesman for the Army 81 Division, Colonel Kingsley Umoh, confirmed the raid but said the army had been carrying out constant raids across the state in response to the rising level of insecurity in the country.
Umoh said over 36 people had been arrested recently. He however said he had yet to receive the details of Thursday's operation.

Friday, March 22, 2013
The National Economic Planning on Thursday approved the sharing of between $1billion and $2billion from the Excess Crude Account among the three tiers of government.
The decision to share the money was taken at the 49th meeting of the council presided over by Vice President Namadi Sambo less than two months after the governments shared $1billion from the same amount.
Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State, at the end of the meeting said that the money would be shared within the next two weeks.
Akpabio said the balance in the account currently stood at $7.82billion.
He said, "An update on the status of the Excess Crude Account was presented by Minister of State for Finance, Alhaji Yerima Ngama, who showed that $7.82billion was left in the account after the sharing of $1billion by the three tiers of government earlier in the year and payment of fuel subsidy commitments.
"The council was also briefed on the plan to share $1billion and $2billion within the next two weeks to facilitate various development projects being executed by the different tiers of government in the country."

Friday, March 22, 2013

No fewer than 18 pupils were apprehended by the men of the National Security and Civil Defence Corps in Ogun State for alleged cultism and breach of peace in the schools in the state.
The students were arrested during the initiation process separately conducted by pupils from both schools.
NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Kareem Olanrewaju, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Abeokuta on Thursday. Olanrewaju said that seven of the students were arrested at Nazareth High School, Imeko in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of the state while 11 others were arrested at Lisabi High School, Idi-Aba, Abeokuta.
The Civil Defence spokesman said that the seven secondary school students arrested in Imeko were caught during the process of initiation being conducted on Tuesday in the area, while the other eleven students from Lisabi High School were caught on Thursday while performing the same initiation process.

Friday, March 22, 2013

The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar, has ordered his men to arrest and bring to book, motorists using tinted glasses, as well as unregistered vehicles.
Abubakar expressed worry over what he called "the negative security implications associated with the unrestrained infringement on relevant laws on the use of tinted glasses and unregistered vehicles despite repeated warnings by the police authority."
In a statement by the Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, on Thursday, the IG reminded politicians, military personnel and security personnel that the ban on unlawful use of tinted glasses and legislations, forbidding the plying of unregistered vehicles on the highways, were still in force.
According to him, use of tinted glasses can heighten criminal activities, and place unnecessary pressure on security agencies and law-abiding citizens.
He said, "In view of the danger posed by the use of tinted glasses and unregistered vehicles, corroborated by recent security reports that criminal elements, including suspected terrorists, now hide under the cover of the use unregistered vehicles, tricycles and motorcycles to execute their nefarious trade; the IG wishes to remind Nigerians, including politicians, military and security personnel, that the ban on indiscriminate use of tinted glasses and the legislations forbidding the plying of unregistered vehicles on our highways are very much in force."
The IG stated that the police would no longer tolerate the abuse of tinted glasses and unregistered vehicles, which he said complicated the challenge of policing the country.
He advised owners of vehicles with tinted glasses to remove them immediately, and also urged drivers of unregistered vehicles to register them immediately.

Thursday, March 21, 2013

The Nigeria Football Federation says the Harambee Stars of Kenya are responsible for their own travel woes in Nigeria.
The Kenyan football team are in Nigeria to take on the Super Eagles in a World Cup Qualifying match on Saturday in Calabar. They arrived the country on Wednesday, and pictures have emerged showing the Harambee Stars training on a grass-less ground at a Primary school in Oshodi, Lagos.
The Kenya Football Federation have since expressed their disappointment on the shabby arrangement which the NFF made for their team.
But NFF official Bola Oyeyode, who is the coordinator for the game, told KickOffNigeria.com that the Kenyans had no one but themselves to blame.
"To start with they were playing hide and seek with their travel arrangements," Oyeyode began.
"They refused to communicate their arrival date to us despite numerous letters from us to them. When information came, it was limited," according to Oyeyode.
Regarding the training ground, Oyeyode said that the Kenyans chose the substandard ground on advise of one of their 'consultants'.
"We went out of our way to book the training pitch of the National Stadium in Surulere for them at a very short notice. "But they refused to go there, and they chose that primary school to train."
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