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  • 50 dead as Bangladeshi plane crashes in Nepal

    A Bangladeshi airliner crashed on Monday after making an unexpected turn in cloudy weather as it came in to land at the airport in Nepal’s capital, killing at least 50 people, officials said.

    There were 71 people on board the US-Bangla Airlines plane arriving from Dhaka when it clipped the fence at Kathmandu and burst into flames, said Raj Kumar Chettri, the general manager of the hill-ringed airport.

    Those aboard included 33 Nepali passengers, with 32 from Bangladesh, one from China and one from the Maldives.

    “All of a sudden the plane shook violently and there was a loud bang,” one of the survivors, Basanta Bohora, told the Kathmandu Post daily. “I was seated near a window and was able to break out of the window.”

    The accident was the latest to hit mountainous Nepal, which has a poor record of air safety. Small aircraft ply an extensive domestic network and often run into trouble at remote airstrips.

    “We have recovered 50 dead bodies so far,” said army spokesman Gokul Bhandari. Although several people had been rescued from the burning wreckage of the Bombardier Q400 series aircraft, nine people were still unaccounted for, he added.

    Chettri said that moments after the plane received permission to land, the pilot said he wanted to go in a northern direction. Asked by the control tower if there was a problem, he replied in the negative.

    The plane was then seen making two rounds in a northeast direction, Chettri said. Traffic controllers again asked the pilot if things were OK, and he replied, “Yes”.

    The tower then told the pilot his alignment was not correct, but there was no reply, Chettri added.

    “The plane should have come from the right direction,” Chettri said, adding that it hit the airport fence, touched the ground and then caught fire.

    It was not immediately clear if the pilot had issued a “Mayday” call, or distress signal.

    Many of the bodies that lay on the tarmac, covered with cloth, were charred, witnesses said. Thick plumes of smoke could be seen from the aircraft at the Tribhuvan International Airport.

    The aircraft that went down on Monday was 17 years old, data from tracking website Flightradar24.com showed. It descended to an airport altitude of 4,400 feet (1,341 m) and then climbed to 6,600 feet (2,012 m) before crashing about two minutes later, the website said.

  • 2019: PDP, APGA, PDM dead and buried in Katsina – Oyegun

    2019: PDP, APGA, PDM dead and buried in Katsina – Oyegun

    Chief John Oyegun, National Chairman of All Progressive Congress (APC) has declared the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Katsina state as “dead and buried”.

    Oyegun made the declaration on Saturday in Katsina during a grand reception organized by the state APC chapter to receive prominent politicians who defected to his party from the PDP.

    He said since hundreds of thousands of PDP members had defected to APC, then the party was completely dead and buried.

    “Prominent politicians like Sen Idah, Barrister Ya’u Gwajo-Gwajo, a two time speaker of Katsina House Assembly, and Mr Nura Khalih also a two-time governorship candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) have all defected to APC today.

    “Now that prominent people and their followers have joined the APC, then, we have the right to declare PDP, APGA, and PDM as dead and buried in the state” he said

    Oyegun called on the people of the state to give maximum support to President Buhari to enable him continue in his leadership of the country.

    “When the APC administration took over the mantle of leadership in 2015, the Nation Electricity supply was only 3000 megawatts.

    “Today, the electricity supply is 7000 megawatts. The country has witnessed an increase of 4000 megawatts, ” he said

    Oyegun revealed that the president had used his experience to control insecurity in the country to its barest minimum.

    The chairman said that President Buhari had introduced several ways of reducing poverty through giving agriculture and economic empowerment to the people.

    Earlier, the Katsina state Gov. Alhaji Aminu Masari, commended the top PDP members that defected to APC, saying that it was an indication of good governance in the state.

    He said that the top politicians that joined APC did so out of their own interest and they were ready to serve the people of the state.

    Masari said that the reception of the prominent politicians into the APC was assuring and the party was better positioned for the 2019 polls.

    “We are going to multiply the votes that we gave to President Buhari in 2015 during the forthcoming election of 2019”.

    Speaking on behalf of all the defectors, Sen. Ibrahim Idah, pledged their loyalty to the APC and promised to do their best to win more votes for the party in 2019.

    Also speaking, the APC Katsina state Chairman, Alhaji Shitu Shitu, said both new and old APC members were going to be treated equally.

    Shitu said there would be no discrimination in the ruling APC in the state.

    Over 300,000 people defected from PDP to the ruling APC in Katsina state during a special grand reception organized by the state APC chapter.

     

  • Buhari needs Jesus Christ to revive dead APC in Rivers – Wike

    Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state says President Muhammadu Buhari will need Jesus Christ to revive deadAll Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

    He said the federal governor has not briefed him on the planned visit of President Muhammadu Buhari to the state. He also said he had no idea why Buhari is visiting the oil-rich state.

    Wike made these remarks on Thursday while Flagging off the reconstruction of Egbelu Street and construction of link roads in East-West in Rumuodara, Obio Akpor area of the state. Rivers is listed among the states Buhari would be visiting over recent killings in some parts of the country.

    While some communities in states such as Benue, Taraba, and Adamawa have been attacked by marauding herdsmen, resulting in the reported killing of over 200 persons, 22 people were murdered by a gang of cultists on New Year’s Day in Omoku Rivers.

    “I hear they say that the President is coming to our state. I have not been told the President is coming and why he is coming. He has the right to come to any state,” he said.

    “Maybe the President is coming to make sure that he will improve the fortunes of the APC that is dead in Rivers state.

    “Apart from Jesus Christ, we don’t know of anyone who has risen a dead thing. APC is a dead party in Rivers state. No matter how you fast and pray, it will never wake up.”

    He further said: “Let nobody bother him or herself that the President is coming for security reasons. We don’t have security challenges in the state.

    “We have never had herdsmen killings or crisis in the state, except when some criminals tried to disrupt the peace and they were checked. We resolved that challenge.”

  • BREAKING: Village headmaster’s Ted Mukoro is dead

    Veteran actor and advert guru, Theodore Austin Mukoro died yesterday at age 89, after a brief illness at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Lagos

    Ted Mukoro made a great name as the first headmaster in the famed TV programme Village Headmaster which is now rested.

    The news of the death of the iconic actor was made available to TheNewsGuru.com by the family of deceased in a statement signed by his daughter, Angela Ajetunmobi.

    Mr. Ted Mukoro, favorably known as “Uncle Ted” by admirers, was a broadcaster, wordsmith and humorous humanist was one of the early faces and voices of television in Africa as a pioneer newscaster on Western Nigeria Television (WNTV), Ibadan.

    He was the pioneer village headmaster on the popular long running television series The Village Headmaster on Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), which later became Nigerian Television Authority (NTA).

    A former Executive Creative Director of Lowe Lintas he was a respected wordsmith whose creativity nurtured many successful brands in Nigeria – Star, Bournvita, Guinness, Harp, Vono, Omo, Lux, Schweppes, Legend, Tomapep, etc.

    Mr. Mukoro was a fellow of the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria (APCON) and a founding member of Association of Advertising Agencies of Nigeria (AAAN).

    He is survived by his daughter Angela Ajetunmobi formerly of Channels TV’s Sunrise Daily and the now producer of 60Minutes with Angela and a son Stan Mukoro of Bentley Motors, along with their spouses and children. He was preceded in death by his wife Mrs. Felicia Mukoro.

    His legacy will live on in the hearts and minds of everyone he interacted with as well as those he reached but never had the pleasure to meet.

     

  • 2019: INEC moves to remove dead persons in voter register

    The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday urged the National Population Commission (NPC) to furnish it with record of dead citizens since 2015 to enable it to “sanitise’’ the voter register.

    Chairman of the commission, Mahmood Yakubu, a professor, made the request when he visited the Chairman of NPC, Eze Duruiheoma, in Abuja.

    He said that the records were necessary to enable the electoral umpire to expunge names of dead persons from the national voter register.

    “We will like to partner NPC and ask that the population commission make available records of dead citizens since 2015 to enable us take necessary steps to remove them from the voter register.

    “We are confident that you will oblige us so that we can further clean up our voter register ahead of the 2019 general elections,” Yakubu said.

    According to him, the commission is determined to do whatever it takes to sanitise the voter register as a free, fair and credible election is dependent on a sanitised voter register.

    The chairman said that as provided by the Constitution, both commissions were saddled with similar responsibilities.

    “While INEC is saddled with the responsibility of registering eligible voters, the population commission registers births and deaths of citizens across the country,” he said.

    He disclosed that a draft copy of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between both agencies had been submitted to the population commission for its consideration.

    “When the MoU is signed, it will formalise and enhance collaboration between the sister agencies for the general development of the country,” Yakubu said.

    Responding, Duruiheoma commended INEC for the initiative to sanitise the voter register using records of NPC.

    He said the collaboration between the sister agencies in the performance of statutory duties was very pivotal to national development.

    According to Duruiheoma, “if we get our elections and censuses right, our nation will be on the way to greatness.”

    He said that the commission would commence the process of making the records of deaths across the country available to INEC.

    He, however, said that the commission could not pretend to have the records of every birth or death that had occurred since 2015.

    “We look forward to the day when every single birth or death case will be efficiently documented by the commission,” Duruijeoma said.

    He said that copies of the MoU had been circulated among relevant officers within the commission and that necessary inputs were already being made.

    He assured the INEC chairman of his readiness to sign the MoU once it was finalised.

  • Lagos student, four others killed as police, hoodlums clash in Mushin

    Not less than five people including a student and a policeman were feared killed in cult-related violence in Mushin area of Lagos on Monday and yesterday.

    Two traders were killed inside Ladipo International Market on Monday evening by suspected cultists. A policeman, a hoodlum and a pupil died during a clash at Idi-Oro area in Mushin.

    The pandemonium was reportedly occurred after police team raided a shop on Elegba Street, where some hoodlums sold hemp. The hoodlums attacked the policemen with broken bottles and stones in retaliation.

    One of the affected victim

    The cops, who retreated, reportedly returned with reinforcements and engaged the hoodlums in a gun battle.

    TheNewsGuru.com learnt that the police shot tear gas canisters into Ansar-Ud-Deen Secondary School.

    A witness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the police shot tear gas canisters into two private secondary schools –Ansarudeen Comprehensive College and Amazing Grace Secondary School – where some pupils were choked.

    A pupil of Amazing Grace, Samuel Okechukwu, who was asthmatic, reportedly died.

    The source said, “The police had been raiding Akala and Idi-Oro for some weeks now and carrying away bags of hemp. The hoodlums believe that the police resell them. They had been planning to fight back.

    “Last night (Monday), a man on Elegba Street took delivery of hemp worth N7m and the police got information about it. Around 11am, the policemen, led by the Area Commander, Area D Mushin, Akinbayo Olusoji, headed for the shop and seized the hemp.

    “The residents, who had been enraged by previous raids, mobilised and launched an attack. They threw stones, broken bottles and other items at the policemen.

    “The policemen returned with reinforcements. Three people were shot dead. They fired two tear gas canisters into Ansarudeen Comprehensive College on Alhaji Lasisi Street and another one entered into Amazing Grace Secondary School on Elegba Street. Many of the pupils were affected. A boy died in Amazing Grace.”

     

  • Yusuf Buhari not dead – Presidency

    The Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie, has revealed that the president’s son, Yusuf, is not dead.

    Yusuf suffered brain injury after he was involved in a bike accident on Tuesday December 26,2017 .

    Onochie reacting to news of Yusuf’s death on her Twitter page, urged Nigerians to disregard the report

    She wrote: “The news making the rounds regarding Yusuf Buhari, son of Pres. Buhari & Aisha Buhari, is Fake.

    “He is very alive, to their shame.”

    Yusuf Buhari was involved in an accident on December 26 in Abuja when he, along with a friend, was racing in the Nigerian capital and he veered off the road in the process.

    According to the Presidency, Yusuf broke a limb and had an injury to the head. He later underwent surgery at Cedarcrest Hospital in Abuja.

    While there were rumours that he was flown abroad for further treatment, sources at the Presidency insisted the surgery done in Nigeria was enough.

  • Sad! Nora Ugo passes on

    Budding actress, Nora Nkiruka Ugo has passed on.

    According to reports, the talented role interpreter died over the weekend in Lagos.The cause of her death is yet to be ascertained.

    Ruth Kadiri, one of her colleagues who confirmed her death has taken to her social media page to express grief over her death

     

    She wrote: “I’m so scared of putting this picture up, not sure if it’s the right thing to do. You were that girl that made my life change. U where that girl that made me laugh a lot you where that girl that I got so mad at. You where that girl that was friend to all. I spoke to u last week.

    “You were the strongest sick person I know. I’m hurt by your death. My head still aches. Wish death was a thing that could be undone. I know God will have a new angel that makes him laugh all day and puts a smile on his face. Gone too soon. Rest in peace Nora. And look over all on earth that were genuinely connected to you. #RIPNora”

    In the same vein, Muma Gee who was recently evicted from the Celebrity Housemates reality TV show also mourned the departed actress.

     

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    May her soul rest in peace.

     

    The Calpurnia in Obasanjo – Ochibejivwie

     

  • UPDATE: How Ambode’s aide, Deji Tinubu died after collapsing on football pitch

    More details have emerged on the shocking circumstances in which Deji Tinubu, the Special Adviser on Commerce and Industry to Governor Akinwumi Ambode of Lagos State, died on Thursday.

    Tinubu, as earlier reported by TheNewsGuru.com, slumped and died during a football match in Epe, where the State Executive Council was holding a retreat.

    Speaking on the grounds of anonymity with TheNewsGuru.com said that he was all by himself on the pitch when he suddenly screamed as if in pains and went down.

    One of the sources said: “At the point he screamed, there was nobody around him.

    “It was not that he was tackled or was running.

    “His action and shout indicated that there must’ve been a sharp pain within him, which we interpreted to be a seizsure. He was then rushed to the hospital after the application of first aid on him.”

    Another source said: “Certainly he was dead even before help could reach him right there on the pitch as timely as the response was.

    “His death is so saddening because he was not in any way sick.

    “In terms of being fit, I will say he was the fittest on the field among all those that engaged in the game of football.”

    Available information has it that the former Special Adviser on Sport to Ambode and former Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Council engaged in sports, especially football, regularly.

    One of his last assignments was the inspection of the ongoing reconstruction of the Agege Stadium to meet the requirements of the Confederation of African Football to host continental matches.

    One of the teams in the state, Mountain of Fire and Miracles FC, is to play its continental matches at the stadium.
    Tinubu was born on July 31, 1964.

    Between 2000 and 2004, he was the Executive Chairman of the Lagos State Sports Council.

    He was at a time an executive committee member of the Nigeria Football Federation.

    A seasoned sports journalist, he is the MD/CEO of Sports Vision Nigeria.

    He runs the company alongside his long time school friend, Deji Omotoyinbo.

  • BREAKING: Ambode’s aide, Deji Tinubu is Dead

    Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Commerce and Industry, Mr, Deji Tinubu is dead.

    According to reports, Deji Tinubu who is also a first cousin of former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, reportedly slumped and died in Epe area of Lagos State,during a retreat for some of the newly appointed executives by the state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode.

    Recall that the deceased was formerly the Special Adviser Sports before he was redeployed to act in another capacity as Special Adviser to Lagos State Governor on Commerce and Industry.

    According to insider sources close to late Deji Tinubu, he slumped and was said to have been rushed to General Hospital, Epe where he was confirmed dead.

    Sources said Tinubu did not show any sign of sickness.

    Details soon