A young girl suicide bomber Sunday blew herself up and five others when the explosive devices strapped to her body detonated in a market in Nigeria’s northesatern city of Potiskum, witnesses said.
Nineteen others who sustained various degrees of injury were taken to hospital after the blast, a local vigilante leader told AFP.
“So far, five people were killed with the girl while 19 others have been taken to hospital for injuries,” Buba Lawan said. Witnesses said she appeared to be as young as seven-years-old.
Source: Vanguard
There is no other way to describe what happened to comedian Seyi Law and his wife Ebere other than a heartbreaking tragedy. The couple who tied the knot in 2011 sadly lost their child at birth.
The couple have been in the United States of America for the past few weeks anticipating their bundle of joy before the tragedy occurred.
Seyi posted this sombre message on Instagram just a few hours ago.
My heart is blank,
My joy has disappeared,
Anger has become my companion.
The wait is over with a bitter end.
Oh Lord! why does it have to be me?
I am so imperfect and never denied it.
The pains of nine months has amounted to nothing.
We hope that Seyi Law and Ebere find healing within their hearts
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
Happy Valentines Day to You Our Esteem Readers
The death toll arising from the cholera in Bayelsa has reached 36, with six more persons reported dead in the Ologi community of Ogbia Local Government Area (LGA).
Ogbia is President Jonathan’s LGA of origin. Several persons, including women and children, are also reported to be in critical condition in the area.
Cholera a disease caused by poor access to potable water, is prevalent in endemic proportions in Sagbama LGA, Gov Seriake Dickson LGA of origin, as well as Southern Ijaw LGA, which is the LGA of the the Speaker of the Bayelsa House of Assembly. Observers say this is an indication that political office holders couldn’t care less about their own people.
It would be recalled that the epidemic had been earlier reported in Southern Ijaw and Sagbama LGAs, with a combined death toll in the two council areas of 30 persons.
Confirming the latest development to newsmen, on Thursday, Chief Obedient Emoto, who represents Ogbia constituency II in the State Assembly, said the cholera outbreak has thrown the affected community and its neighbours into confusion.
According to Emotor, the development is causing fear and untold hardship in the area.
He warned that unless urgent steps were taken, the outbreak could claim more lives as well as spread to other neighbouring communities.
The legislator appealed to the state Ministry of Health to urgently send epidemiologists, health personnel and drugs to curb the epidemic in the community.
But an official of the Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said health personnel and drugs have been dispatched to the area to contain the spread of the disease
Clergyman and social critic, Tunde Bakare, has said there
would be no elections in the country until he lifts an
“injunction” he placed on it. He claimed to have predicted
the poll shift by demonstrating with a chair he placed on
the altar in his church during a previous worship service.
Bakare is the Senior Pastor, Latter Rain Assembly and one
time vice presidential candidate to General Muhammadu
Buhari on the platform of the defunct Congress for
Progressive Change, CPC.
Speaking at his church’s Sunday service, at Ogba, in Lagos,
Bakare stated that the postponement has vindicated him
against vilification from those opposed to his earlier view
on the matter. In his sermon, titled “Sweet and Sour
Ministry Of The Prophet”, Bakare likened his prophesy to
that of biblical prophet Elijah, who declared that “there
would neither be dew nor rain except at my word”. Bakare
claimed that his statement on the shifting of the elections
and the inauguration of an interim national government
during the interregnum was divinely inspired. “There shall
be a performance of every word that proceedeth (sic) from
the mouth of God”, he stated. The gadfly pastor, then,
admonished the congregation on what should be their
disposition when reviled for their views.He deplored the
condemnations his earlier statement generated, saying “It
is a mark of immaturity to abuse another person for his
opinion”. Bakare said though he had been accused of
belonging to either the PDP or the APC, he declared he is
not a member of any.
“Did I speak to INEC or was I at the Council of States
meeting?; there was no telephone conversation between me
and (Attahiru) Jega or (Sambo) Dasuki, why then are you
attacking me for the postponement?”, he asked rhetorically.
Though he did not name anyone, Bakare mocked some
people he said have become depressed by the
postponement. “You are full of yourself, full of your
abracadabra, full of what you can do to make things
happen; what is my concern if you have spent money,” he
stated.
SOURCE: http://www.newsbreak.ng/2015/02/08/until-i-
say-otherwise-there-will-be-no-elections-tunde-bakare/
DR Congo have claimed third place at the 2015 AFCON after they beat hosts Equatorial Guinea 4-2 on penalties
The All Progressives Congress, APC, has just heard over the news media that The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to postpone the elections by six weeks on the strength of a letter by the security chiefs that they cannot provide security for the elections nationwide because of the commitment of its resources to fight insurgency in the north eastern part of the country.
This is clearly a major setback for Nigerian democracy, and our Party is meeting in emergency session to study its implications and will inform Nigerians of its decisions in the next few days.
In the meantime, though what has happened is highly provocative, I strongly appeal to all Nigerians to remain calm and desist from violence and any activity which will compound this unfortunate development. We must not fall into this obvious trap. Change we must. They can only delay it; No one can stop it.
I want to assure all Nigerians that the All Progressives Congress will not abandon its commitment to change and will sustain the struggle to establish a new Nigeria.
John E. K. Odigie-Oyegun. CON.
National Chairman, APC
THE National Universities Commission (NUC) has abolished the award of Pass Degree in Nigerian Universities with effect from the 2013/ 2014 academic session.
Prof Abdullahi Zuru, the Vice Chancellor of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, disclosed this on Wednesday at the 2014/2015 matriculation of 4,133 students of the institution.
``This has far reaching implications on the grading system of students in universities.
``This means that the minimum pass mark for courses in the universities will now be 45 per cent, that is, D-grade, instead of the previous 40 per cent which was E-grade.
``It also means that the minimum class of degree to be earned by students will now be Third Class," he said.
According to him, no university student will henceforth graduate with a Pass Degree. He therefore enjoined the students to work hard to earn their stay in the university.
The vice chancellor also advised them to shun extremism, bigotry, violence, ethnicity, political intolerance and religious prejudice.
Zuru commended the Federal Government and its agencies for fully transforming the landscape of the university.
Earlier, the Dean of Students Affairs, Dr Adamu Aliero warned that any student that flouted the rules and regulations of the university would be sanctioned.
He assured the students that the management of the institution would continue to accord top priority to their welfare.
In a remark, Mr Aminu Wushishi, Chairman of the caretaker committee of the students union government, assured that the students would be law abiding. (NAN)
http://m.ngrguardiannews.com/en/news/national-news/196676-nuc-abolishes-pass-degree-says-vc
Nollywood actress Mercy Johnson has joined the growing
list of Nollywood stars who have endorsed President
Jonathan's re-election.
While speaking with iCampus,the sexy mama of two said
GEJ is not perfect but has good intention for Nigeria.
Read what she below.....
''He deserves another chance. This is a president who has
good intentions for the nation. He is by no means a perfect
man but he means well and he has apparently learnt from
his weaknesses in the last four years. We must continue to
believe in this great nation of ours. Nigeria belongs to us.
The president cannot do it alone. He needs our help and we
should not let him down at a time like this when he needs
our votes to get the job done."
