10/24/18

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No fewer than six persons were reportedly burnt to death on Wednesday in a multiple accident involving a container laden truck and two commercial buses at J4, Ogbere area on the Sagamu-Benin Expressway.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the accident occurred less than 24 hours after nine persons lost their lives when a luxury bus rammed into a stationary truck at Aseese end of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
The Sagamu/Benin accident was said to have occurred at around 2:15 p.m. at a section of the road where there was a diversion of traffic to a single lane.
Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, the spokesperson of the Ogun Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), who confirmed the accident, said 10 others persons suffered varying degrees of injury.
Akinbiyi added that the operatives of the state road safety agency at the scene, said the driver of the truck, travelling toward Benin, overtook another vehicle wrongly and rammed into one of the buses coming from the opposite direction.
He said the second bus also travelling in the opposite direction, equally rammed into the two vehicles, almost immediately.
Akinbiyi explained that fire broke out from the trunk of the truck, due to the impact of the accident.
“16 people were involved in the accident; six were burnt beyond recognition while 10 others escaped with varying degrees of injury.
“Out of the three vehicles involved in the accident, our operatives could only get the number plate of one of the commercial buses as BDG 06 XP,” he said.
He said the injured were receiving treatment at the Ijebu Ode General Hospital where the corpses had been deposited at the mortuary.
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Prof. Frank Onyezili, a senior lecturer with the Biological Sciences Department of the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi, has committed suicide.
Sources close to the professor told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Wednesday in Makurdi that the deceased was found dead on Tuesday, Oct. 23.
Mrs. Roseline Waku, the Director of Protocol and Information of the university, who confirmed the incident, however told NAN that she was not aware of why Onyezili killed himself.
“The only thing I can confirm is that the professor killed himself; I don’t know why he did it,” she said.
Waku hinted of reports that the deceased left a suicide note, but said that she was not privy to its contents.
A top official of the university told NAN that the professor drank some substance suspected to be poison, after leaving a suicide note.
The source, which craved anonymity, said that the university don’s action might not be unconnected with depression and loneliness that had been his lot since his wife and children relocated to a foreign country.
“I am not sure why he killed himself, but he was always complaining of loneliness; his wife and children live abroad and have not been in touch with him. He might have opted to end his frustration by killing himself,” the source said.
Contacted, Mr Moses Yamu, spokesman of the Police Command in Benue, told NAN that he had not been briefed on the matter.
“I am yet to get details of the incident. That is all I can say for now,” he said.
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The National Social Investment Programme says two fraudsters have been arrested and handed over to the Department of State Security Service (DSS) in Yola, in Adamawa.
Its Focal Person, Mr Usman Sali, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Yola that the suspects were arrested for allegedly extorting money from unsuspecting members of the public.
The National Social Investments Programmes (NSIP) was established by the Federal Government in 2016 to tackle poverty and hunger in the country.
Components of the programme include: N-Power, Conditional Cash Transfer, Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF) and Government Enterprise and Empowerment Programme (GEEP).
According to Sali, some undesirable elements in the state are going round impersonating as supervision officers of the programme and extorting money from people to recruit them into the programme.
“Two of such criminals were apprehended and handed over to the DSS for interrogation.
“Also, in Hong Local Government Area of the state, some suspected criminals, who paraded themselves as agents of the programme, were arrested for collecting N40, 000 from each of their victims.
“They were arrested and handed over to the police for being in possession of fake forms and selling the forms to people in the area.
Among the major challenges facing the smooth implementation of the programme’s components in the state is the activities of fraudsters and lack of proper supervision,” he said.
Sali then urged the state government to show interest in the programmes, saying it was designed to assist the common people.
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Former Ekiti governor Ayodele Fayose was granted bail this morning over the N30.8 billion fraud charge slammed on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
His trial will start on 19 November, Justice Mojisola Olatoregun ruled.
Fayose was docked at the Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday alongside his company, Spotless Investment Ltd on an 11-count charge of N30.8 billion fraud.
He pleaded not guilty to the charge.
His lawyer Kanu Agabi SAN, moved a motion for his bail, after which the judge ordered Fayose’s remand in EFCC custody and adjourned hearing till today.
Justice Olatoregun heard the arguments by Agabi and EFCC counsel, Rotimi Jacobs today,
Agabi, a former Federal Attorney-General , urged the court to grant Fayose bail on the ground that he voluntarily submitted himself to EFCC a day after leaving office as Governor of Ekiti State.
In addition, he said, Fayose has no criminal record.
Mr Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, prosecuting for EFCC, countered on the ground that the day Fayose appeared in EFCC Abuja he came with a lot of hoodlums that nearly attacked the EFCC operatives before they were repelled.
He was probably to the crowd that included Governor Nyesom Wike and former aviation minister, Femi Fani-Kayode.
Rotimi also told the court that investigation is still ongoing to trace some of the properties bought by Fayose with the stolen money and if granted bail, he will scuttle investigation.
Justice Mojisola Olatoregun said since the offence alleged to have been committed is a bailable offence, she was inclind to grant Fayose bail.
She thus granted Fayose bail in the sum of N50million with one surety who must own a landed property in Lagos.
The surety must possess three years tax clearance and must also secure a bond of N50million from a reputable bank which will be forfeited if Fayose jumps bail.
Fayose was also ordered to swear to an affidavit not to tamper with the witnesses and should deposit his international passport with the chief Registrar of the court.
Thereafter, she adjourned the trial till 19th of Novenber, 2018.
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Nigerians are now drinking less of Heineken Beer with the second largest brewer in the World recording less sales in Nigeria and Congo amid significant rise in sales in other regions.
Nigeria is said to be a major Heineken market, comparable to Russia, Brazil, South Africa and France, were sales of the beer were said to have increased by 9 per cent.
Heineken  increased beer sales in all four of its global regions in the third quarter and said it stuck to its full-year outlook.
The Dutch maker of Heineken, Europe’s top-selling lager, as well as Tiger, Sol and Strongbow cider, said on Wednesday its consolidated beer volumes rose by 4.6 percent year-on-year to 62.6 million hectoliters (6.2 billion litres).
“Volume growth continued in the third quarter, benefiting from good weather in Europe and strong growth in Brazil, Mexico, Vietnam and South Africa,” Chief Executive Officer Jean-Francois van Boxmeer said in a statement.
Sales of Heineken lager, the company’s premium global brand on which margins are greater, rose by 9.2 percent, with strong growth in Brazil, South Africa, France and Russia.
The only negative spots were declines of beer sales in Nigeria, a major Heineken market, as well as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cambodia, Poland and Spain. Heineken lager sales also fell in the Asia-Pacific region.
The company said its expectations for the full year were unchanged.
Heineken cut its full-year margin forecast in July due to currency weakness in some more profitable markets, such as Mexico and Vietnam, and expansion in Brazil.
It said its operating profit margin would decline by 20 basis points this year, compared with an earlier forecast of a 25 basis point increase.
Heineken acquired the loss-making Brazilian operations of Japan’s Kirin in 2017 to become the number two player in the South America country, and had previously warned of a dilutive impact on its margins.
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The Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar was yellow-carded Tuesday by the Northern Youth Leaders Forum over his choice of former governor Peter Obi, as running mate.
The group sent Atiku a dire message: drop Obi or lose.
The youths tabled their demand at a meeting on Monday with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, now Atiku’s godfather.
They asked Atiku to review the choice of Obi, if he hopes to earn the North’s support.
The group, which prides itself as the apex body of 46 youth organisations in the North, threatened to mobilise its over six million members against the PDP and its presidential candidate, if Atiku failed to take its advice.
The national chairman of the group, Comrade Elliot Afiyo, who spoke on Tuesday in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, after a meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday night, claimed that the body had been instrumental to the electoral victories of successive presidents since 1999. It claimed to have played a major role in incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari’s victory and it also played a critical role in the reconciliation between Atiku and Obasanjo.
According to Afiyo, the group had equally intimated the former President of their position on Atiku’s running mate.
It was not immediately clear yesterday what Obasanjo, who has just ended a long feud with Atiku and endorsed him, told the youths.
Afiyo said Obi’s choice was causing friction in the Southeast, which is largely responsible for the impending defection of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremandu, from the PDP.
He added that Obi is strongly viewed as anti-north and a major sponsor of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
According to him, over 70 percent of Emirs and other traditional rulers in the North will not support Atiku’s choice of running mate and maintained that PDP will fail to produce the next president, if the party eventually flies the Atiku/Obi ticket.
Afiyo advised PDP to pick Atiku’s running mate from South south. He suggested that either Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike or his Bayelsa State counterpart, Seriake Dickson, should be considered.
Afiyo said: “Atiku is an experienced politician, and he knows what happened and as a northern Nigerian, he cannot ignore that group. I have spoken to almost all the Southeast governors and they told me that they remained in PDP because of their governorship elections and after their governorship elections, they will vote somewhere, not PDP.
“And for us to ignore the stakeholders, it is political suicide, so we must agree with that fact. That was what we told Obasanjo yesterday, that as far as we want Atiku to succeed, he has no alternative than to drop Peter Obi and with the contention between Peter Obi’s group and Ike Ekweremadu’s group, it is not politically convenient again to pick a running mate from the Southeast.
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A Taliban bomb maker, his wife and two children were killed as his device exploded prematurely in his home in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province on Monday, Provincial Police spokesman, Abdul-Karim Yurash said on Wednesday.
“A Taliban mine maker, Mullah Sadrudin, was making a mine in his home in Garzewan district on Monday but the device exploded suddenly killing himself, his wife and two of his children on the spot,” Yurash said.
The two children killed were five and eight years old respectively.
The bomb had been intended to be used as a roadside bomb to target security convoys in the restive province, the official said via telephone from provincial capital Maimana.
Taliban militants, who are in control of parts of Faryab province and largely relying on suicide and roadside bombing, have not commented.
Similarly, Afghan authorities on Wednesday said that 56 drug-narcotics-related cases were exposed in the country within the past one month.
“The Counter-Narcotics Police of Afghanistan (CNPA) together with the detective Afghan security organisation have cracked 56 drug cases, involving 81 people, including two women during the Afghan month of Mizan (Sept. 23 to Oct. 22) across in the country,” official said.
The Counter-Narcotics Criminal Justice Task Force of Afghanistan (CJTF) said this in a statement.
The cases were handed over to the Central Narcotics Tribunal (CNT), a special Afghan court for jurisdiction of major drug cases, the statement noted.
Huge drugs and ban-chemical materials, including 114 kg heroin, 13 kg morphine, 532 kg opium, 869 kg hashish and 1 kg methamphetamine, were also seized over the period, the statement noted.
The CNPA and other security forces also confiscated 11 vehicles, three motorcycles, one gun, 86 mobile phones as well as currencies totaling about 13,400 dollars within the month.
In addition, an appellant court of the CNT has sentenced 27 defendants, including a woman, to different ranges of imprisonment over the period, the statement said.
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Suspected members of the Boko Haram Sect have attacked Mife Village, a community in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. 

The attack on the community comes four years a similar attack led to the abduction of over 200 school girls.

The incident which occurred on Monday night claimed the life of the village head Bila Vwa and one other person who is yet to be identified.

According to a statement from the State Commissioner of Police, Damian Chukwu, the terrorists numbering about 50, invaded Mife village, in Chibok LGA  and killed two persons.

The statement also adds that over 30 houses were reportedly burnt and about 40 bicycles carted away by the hoodlums.

However, normalcy has been restored in the area while investigations into the incident are ongoing.

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A daughter of former Head of Interim National Government (ING), Chief Ernest Shonekan, Mrs. Basirat Umar-Shonekan, has debunked the rumoured of the death of her father.

In a telephone chat from Canada, Basirat declared that though on sick bed however the former interim national government head is still alive.

The Canadian Naval Accountant further explained that the reported death of her father on Facebook was a fake news which compelled her to make phone calls across to Nigeria to authenticate the incident.

Mrs. Basirat Umar-Sonekan explained that the entire Shonekan family was highly embarrassed by the fake news.

There were confusion in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, over the rumoured death of former Head of Interim National Government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, who returned to the country on Monday from medical trip abroad. (Radio Nigeria)
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