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  • How mother, daughter died in Lagos collapsed building

    Tragedy struck on Saturday during Lagos State’s local council polls as a mother and her daughter were killed after a building collapsed on them.

    The building, which was under construction at No. 7 Seidu Okeleji, Alaro, Meiran, collapsed, killing the 30-year-old mother, identified as Basirat and her child, Bisoye.

    TheNewsGuru.com published the report of the incidence, which reportedly occurred at 11: 48 am yesterday.

    An eyewitness told our correspondent that the woman and her children were doing their chores when the building crashed on them.

    He said, “The woman, Mama Moyin and her two children were washing clothes in the uncompleted building when the building collapsed on them.”

    The other child, Moyin, was rescued by the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency.

    The General Manger of LASEMA, Adesina Tiamiyu, said an investigation would be carried out by the appropriate agencies to determine the exact cause of the collapse, as he advised building owners and developers to adhere to building codes and physical planning laws of the state to avert unnecessary loss of lives.

  • Buhari won’t incarcerate those wishing him dead – Adesina

    Buhari won’t incarcerate those wishing him dead – Adesina

    Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina has described President Muhammadu Buhari as “a reformed democrat, a pious man’’ who will never move against those calling him all sorts of names in the past two years.

    Adesina, in a special feature titled; “President Muhammadu Buhari and the descendants of Shimei’’, released in Abuja on Saturday, described such people who were bent on tarnishing the good image of President Buhari as “descendants of Shimei’’.

    According to the presidential aide, the descendants of Shimei are the evil wishers, the hate monger, and those who spend their days conjecturing tragedy for leadership.

    “President Buhari has tolerated people who have called him all sorts of names in the past two years. If he didn’t move against them directly, he could have allowed many Abishais to move against them, “and take off their heads.”

    “But not our President, a reformed democrat, a pious man, who has resolved to leave the people suffused by hatred unto God.’’

    Adesina attributed the “devilish’’ activities of the Nigerian Shimei to the outcome of the 2015 presidential election.

    He maintained that, “the All Progressives Congress (APC), inspired by Muhammadu Buhari, halted the 60-year pipe dream of PDP at the polls in 2015. Has the latter forgotten? No, they won’t forget till forever.

    “But so much is the animus, the antipathy towards the President that they wish him dead. While millions of Nigerians are praying, some elements are rejoicing, and imagining evil.

    “But they forget: man is not God, and Jehovah always has the final say. The descendants of Shimei need to learn vital lessons from their forebear.’’

    The presidential aide further narrated a historical but spiritual episode to further buttress his points.

    “You don’t kick a man that is down, goes a saying, but Shimei not only cursed David, he also threw dust and stones at him. It was a show of shame.

    “David had succeeded Saul as king of Israel. And Shimei was from the family of Saul (read, People’s Democratic Party, PDP). Shimei hadn’t forgotten the bloody nose the family of Saul got, when the kingship was taken away from them, and given to David.

    “So when the latter got into a time of travail, no pity at all from people still smarting from bloody noses.

    “And will they get their just desserts one day? As night follows the day, they will. If not from man, they will get it from God. Their forefather, Shimei did. He reaped what he sowed,’’ he said.

    He further narrated: “After some time, the rebellion led by Absalom was crushed by loyal troops, and David regained the throne. As he headed back into the city, who came to meet the king, with one thousand of his relatives, pleading for mercy? Shimei.

    “The Yorubas say the same mouth that the snail used to abuse the gods, is what it uses to lick the dusts of the earth. Shimei had suddenly become gentle.

    “And humble, too. He fell down before David, and said:”I have sinned. Have mercy on me. Don’t remember what I did against you on the day you went out of Jerusalem.”

    “Heh, on a certain day, some people would come to prostrate, begging for mercy, asking President Buhari to forgive and forget. What will the President do? What did David do? Abishai said again to King David:”Let me bring down the head of this man, who cursed, and threw stones at you?”

    “But David said to Shimei:”Thou shall not surely die.” And the king swore unto him.

    “But did Shimei live happily ever after? Old sins, they say, have long shadows. Before David died, he instructed Solomon his son, who succeeded him, not to forget to deal with Shimei.

    “At least, David had kept his part of the bargain not to kill Shimei.

    “What did Solomon do? He restricted Shimei to Jerusalem, adding that any day he went out of the city would be his last on earth. Days, weeks, and months went by. Shimei remained gentle.

    “But on a certain day, two servants belonging to him ran away to Gath, another city.

    “Shimei saddled his horses, and led his men to bring back the servants. He had received mercy from David, but he couldn’t show mercy to the servants. Mercy begets mercy.

    “The story was told to Solomon. Shimei has left Jerusalem. He went to Gath, contrary to your instructions. It was time for judgment.

    “Solomon commanded that what Abishai had long wanted to do should be done to Shimei. And his head was brought down.

    Adesina concluded his article with satirical questions, saying that, “Will the descendants of Shimei repent, turn a new leaf, and become human? Will they recognize their own mortality?

    “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still. He that is overtaken by hate, let him remain hateful still. Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give to every man according as his work shall be.

    “Let the descendants of Shimei who have ears to hear please hear. There is recompense for evil, and there is also recompense for good.’’

    TheNewsGuru.com reports recalls the Guinean President, Alpha Condé, on Friday ordered a 24-hour fervent prayer for President Buhari, who is currently on medical vacation in London.

    Condé gave the order while addressing the country’s Council of Ministers in a meeting.

    Guinean President expressed concern for President Buhari’s health and declared prayers for his quick recovery.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that President Buhari traveled for medical check-up in London on Sunday, May 7, more than a month he came back into the country from a previous medical vacation.

  • Lagos Assembly member, Kazeem Alimi dies at 50

    A member of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Kazeem Ademola Alimi, is dead.

    The lawmaker, who represented Eti Osa Constituency I, died after a brief illness yesterday, two weeks after his 50th birthday.

    A statement by Musbau Razak, the Chief Press Secretary to the Speaker Mudashiru Obasa, said the late lawmaker died at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

    A two-time lawmaker, Alimi was the chairman of the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

    He is survived by a wife and children.

  • Photos: 5 dead, 3 injured as truck falls on commercial bus in Lagos

    Photos: 5 dead, 3 injured as truck falls on commercial bus in Lagos

    There was pandemonium early Saturday morning at the Ojota area of Lagos as an articulated truck with registration number AKD 663 KF conveying a 40 feet container laden with plywood fell on a Volkswagen commercial bus (Danfo) with registration number FST 944 XR.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that five of the passengers in the bus died on the spot while three others sustained different degree of injuries.

    The copses have since been deposited at the Ikorodu General Hospital Mortuary, while the injured were taken to a trauma centre at toll gate.

    According to the General Manager of Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, Mr. Adesina Tiamiyu whose agency were alerted as soon as the incident happened, the accident happened at around 4:02 am on Saturday (today) at Ojota bus stop.

    The GM quickly alerted the Emergency Response Team, ERT of the agency who rushed to the scene of the accident.

    In his words: “Investigation carried out by the Emergency Response Team, ERT, at the scene of the incident revealed that an articulated truck with registration number AKD 663 KF conveying a 40ft container laden with plywood fell on a Volkswagen commercial bus (Danfo) with registration number FST 944 XR”

    Tiamiyu noted that it took the combined efforts of the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Fatai Owoseni, Commander of Rapid Response Squad, Tunji Disu and officials of Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA; Lagos State Ambulance Service, LASAMBUS; Lagos State Fire Service; Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC to rescue the victims and restore calmness to the area.

    The GM however advised articulated truck drivers and owners to exercise caution and avoid over loading to avoid such fatal accident in the nearest and distant future.

     

  • Haruna, only surviving son of late Gen. Vatsa is dead

    Haruna, only surviving son of late Gen. Vatsa is dead

    Alhaji Haruna Vatsa, the only surviving son of the late Maj,-Gen. Mamman Vatsa and the Director-General Protocol to Gov. Abubakar Bello of Niger state, is dead.

    The Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Malam Jibrin Ndace, confirmed Haruna’s death in a statement released yesterday.

    He said that Vatsa died on Tuesday afternoon in Kaduna, following a brief illness.

    Haruna’s lone brother, Jibrin Mamman Jiya Vatsa, also died in September 2015 in the early hours of Sunday in Calabar, Cross River State, after a brief illness.

    The state government particularly commiserated with Haruna Mamman Vatsa, the elder brother of the deceased.

    The father of late Haruna, Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, was a senior Nigerian Army officer and poet who was executed by the government of Major General Ibrahim Babangida on 5 March 1986 following a military tribunal death sentence for treason associated with an abortive coup.

    He served as Minister of the Federal Capital Abuja, and was a member of the Supreme Military Council.

  • JUST IN: Elder statesman Maitama Sule dies at 88

    JUST IN: Elder statesman Maitama Sule dies at 88

    A two-time minister and former Nigerian Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Yusuf Maitama Sule, is dead.

    He was 88 years old.

    Sule, also known by his traditional title, Danmasanin Kano, died in the early hours of Monday while on admission at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt.

    He was flown to the Egyptian hospital on Saturday after doctors at Kano’s Nasarawa Hospital diagnosed him of pneumonia and chest infection.

    A close associated of the late politician confided in newsmen that Mr. Sule’s remains would be flown to the country on Tuesday and the funeral prayers would take place at Kano Emir’s Palace by 4 p.m.

    Sule was minister of mines and power during the first republic administration of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, and was minister for national guidance in 1983.

    Details later…

  • Dead workers are still collecting salaries in Benue – Gov Ortom

    Dead workers are still collecting salaries in Benue – Gov Ortom

    The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has lamented that dead workers and some others who are supposed to have retired are still collecting salaries in his state.

    He said the sharp practices had increased the state’s wage bill to N7.9bn monthly, which he said was too much for his government to handle.

    Ortom said this in an interview with journalists shortly after attending a meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Friday.

    The governor said although he was committed to timely payment of workers’ salary, this could not be achieved with the unsustainable wage bill.

    He said his administration had therefore commenced a staff audit that will weed out “ghost workers” from the state’s payroll.

    He expressed the hope that the exercise, which will last three months, would bring sanity to the system.

    Ortom said, “You will recall that I declared a state of emergency on ‎payment of salaries, and I want to have the capacity to pay salaries as and when due because a worker deserves his wages.

    “We discovered that there were so many leakages on our payroll and ghost workers and other infiltration here and there.

    “I think that a wage bill of over N3.2bn is too much at the state level. And when you add pensions and gratuity, you are talking of about N4.2bn. It is too much for Benue State.

    “At the local government, you have a wage bill of N3.7bn. So, if you are talking about N7.9bn for a state, it is not decent enough.

    “Ghost workers, those who were due for retirement are still in the service, those who are dead are still collecting salaries and all that.

    “So, we believe that at the end of the day, we will be able to scale down to a level that we will be able to pay salaries as and when due.”

  • BREAKING: Former Taraba Gov Danbaba Suntai dead at 55

    Dambaba Suntai, a former governor of Taraba State, who survived an air crash at the Yola Airport in Adamawa State in 2012 has died. He was 55 years old.

    Suntai died at home where he was undergoing rehabilitation for brain injuries arising from the plane crash.

    A former commissioner of information in the state, Emmanuel Bello confirmed the news of his demise to an online news platform.

    He ran for governor and won on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party in 2007. He was sworn in as governor on May 29 of that year. He was re-elected in 2011.

    Suntai, a trained pilot, was flying the plane when it crashed in neighbouring Adamawa State in 2012. Some of his aides passed away in the tragic incident.

    He never returned to office after the accident and his deputy served out his tenure as acting governor.

    In 2015, it was reported that the former governor had suffered a stroke. In the last days of his life, his wife was reportedly his only constant companion.

  • Fuji House of Commotion star, Victor ‘Alika’ Eze is dead

    Nollywood actor, Victor Eze a.k.a ‘Alika’ is dead. The actor popular for his role in Fuji House of Commotion has been battling with stroke for several years.

    He reportedly passed on Sunday night 25th of June, after a long battle with stroke. Big Brother Naija former housemate, Thin Tall Tony took to his Instagram page to break the sad news. Tony described his passing as a loss to the entire movie industry. He mentioned him as his biggest influence when it comes to interpreting characters on stage.

    “It was looking like a great day until I heard about your passing, sir. Ladies and a gentleman he has been my biggest influence in characters on stage.He was too good on stage and a lord in switching roles. He could play 6 roles in one production and you couldn’t tell the difference. We dancers, stage actors from the national theater will always miss you” he wrote.

    Until his death, Eze alongside being an actor was also known to be a great writer, director, and producer. His other acting credits include Mouth to Mouth, Across the Bar, Ungodly Woman, The Last Army, Chop-Money, Farouk Lasaki’s Changing Faces, Together As One and Baby Guards.

    His literary works include Crazy Echoes of My Mirror, My 50 @ Nigeria @ 50, Footprints for Nollywood Acting, and Efulefu.

     

     

     

  • Tragedy as 120 die in oil tanker fire

    Over 100 people have died and another 100 injured after an overturned oil tanker caught fire.

    The tragedy at the Ahmad Sharqia area of Bahawalpur in Pakistan on Sunday morning occurred as a crowd attempted to scoop fuel from the tanker.

    The tanker exploded.

    Dozens of motorbikes and cars passing by were caught in the fire.

    The dead bodies and injured are being shifted to Victoria Hospital of Bahawalpur and emergency has been declared in the hospital, said Pakistan’s The Nation newspaper.

    The wards in the hospital are being vacated for the injured.

    Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper said the fire brigade arrived on the site of the incident shortly after the blaze started and rescue operations were initiated.

    Two fire engines battled the fire and eventually gained control over it.

    At least six cars and 12 motorcycles were burnt in the blaze.

    The injured were transferred to District Headquarters Hospital and Bahawal Victoria Hospital, rescue officials said.

    Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa ordered the army to assist the civil administration in the rescue efforts.

    “COAS expresses grief on losses in oil tanker incident,” Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major Gen Asif Ghafoor said in a tweet.

    NAN