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  • Sad! Four die, 12 injured on Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident

    Sad! Four die, 12 injured on Lagos-Ibadan expressway accident

    Four persons were confirmed dead, while 12 others sustained various degrees of injuries in a lone accident, involving a Mazda bus around Isara bridge on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

    Mr Babatunde Akinbiyi, Spokesperson, Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE), confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abeokuta on Monday.

    Akinbiyi said that the accident, which occurred at about 2:20pm, was caused by a tyre burst while on high speed, resulting in the bus somersaulting.

    He said that 16 people, made up of three male adults, eight female adults and five male children, were involved in the accident.

    Akinbiyi said that four people died on the spot and their corpses have been deposited at the FOS morgue.

    “We learnt the commercial bus, loaded with 16 passengers, including the driver, was on transit from Lagos to Ibadan when the rear tyre burst due to speeding.

    ”Four passengers died on the spot, made up of a five-year-old boy, two male adults and one female adult,” he said.

    He added that the injured were taken to Idera Hospital, Sagamu and Victory Hospital, Ogere Remo, while the deceased were deposited at FOS Mortuary, Ipara Remo.

    While commiserating with the family of the deceased, he called on motorists to avoid excessive speeding.

     

  • Another prominent Kano monarch is dead

    Another prominent Kano monarch is dead

    Dr. Wada Ibrahim Waziri, the Sa’in Bichi, Hakimin Dambatta has passed on at the age of 89.

    According to family sources, the prominent monarch died Wednesday morning after a protracted illness related to old age.

    The late monarch who was at one time the District Head of Makoda was born into a royal family and had his education early in Kano Middle School, passed out in the 1950s.

    Late Wada Waziri was a veteran nursing officer who became popular under the AVM Hamza Abdullahi regime in 1984 when he served as head of operation of the then Kano State Environmental Sanitation Agency, popularly known as Ruwa-Ruwa.

    During his life time, the frontline monarch Wada Waziri worked as a civil servant and later got involved in active politics.

    More details later…

  • Dubai returnee dies of COVID-19 in Lagos

    Dubai returnee dies of COVID-19 in Lagos

    A 32-year-old man, who recently returned from Dubai, has died of coronavirus-related complications in Lagos State.

    The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, made this known on Tuesday.

    Abayomi said the deceased returned from Dubai with severe underlying health conditions.

    Data released by the commissioner also showed that of the total 1,949 confirmed infections in Lagos, 1,395 are active cases, two evacuated, and 16 patients have been transferred to Ogun and Ondo.

    The commissioner also confirmed the 88 new cases of COVID-19 earlier announced by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.

    He tweeted, “88 new cases of #COVID19 Infection were confirmed in Lagos. Total number of confirmed cases in Lagos is now 1,949.

    “Additional 33 #COVID-19 patients – nine females and 24 males have been discharged following full recovery. Total number of discharged #COVID19 patients in Lagos now stands at 502.

    “Another #COVID19 infection-related death involving 32-year-old, male has been recorded.

    The deceased recently returned from Dubai with severe underlying health conditions.

    “Following the evacuation of Nigerians in foreign countries, total COVID-19 related deaths in Lagos is now 34.

    “I urge Lagosians to remain committed to rules guiding COVID-19 infection prevention regardless of relaxation of lockdown.”

  • Panic in Ekiti as 59-year-old woman slumps, dies while urinating

    Palpable tension engulfed Ado-Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Wednesday when a 59-year-old unmarried woman, Victoria Yemisi Omoare, reportedly slumped and died while urinating.

    According to a report by The Nation, the incident occurred at about 9:45 am at Ilokun area close to Abattoir, along the busy Ado-Iworoko road.

    Narrating the incident, the driver of the vehicle, who was said be a lecturer in the Faculty of Agricultural Science, Ekiti State University, Mr. Orimaye Oluwafemi, said the deceased who alighted from his vehicle died while urinating.

    Oluwafemi said he was going to the campus to fetch some water leaf in his farm and withdraw some money at the ATM when the woman and a student, both his neighbours, opted to follow him.

    He said the incident happened close to the University gate when he stopped by the road side to take photograph of a tree plant he could use for his thesis and the woman seized the opportunity to answer the call of nature in a nearby bush.

    He added that they waited for her return for about five minutes in his car before they found out that the woman had slumped and died.

    According to him, the Akoko- born woman was a teacher at Adegbola Memorial High School, Akure in Ondo state and had been staying with his family in Ado Ekiti before coronavirus pandemic was confirmed in Ekiti, though he didn’t know any of her family members.

    He disclosed that the unmarried woman just finished her PHD course and recently complained about abdominal pain a day after she completed a three -day fasting.

    Meanwhile the deceased remains had been evacuated and deposited at the Ekiti State Teaching Hospital’s morgue for autopsy.

    When contacted the Ekiti State Public Relation Officer, Sunday Abutu said such report had not reached his office as at press time

  • Two Customs officers die while chasing vehicle

    Two Customs officers die while chasing vehicle

    Two men of the Nigeria Customs Service attached to the Oron Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, reportedly died in an auto crash on Sunday while pursuing a bus suspected to be carrying smuggled rice.

    Two other customs officers and the driver of the bus being chased were said to have sustained varying degrees of injury in the accident.

    The survivors were reportedly rushed to hospital for treatment.

    The incident occurred around 4.30pm at Urue Ita along Eket Oron Road in Oron LGA.

    An eyewitness, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told our journalists on Monday that the bus the officers were pursuing was later found to be without any bag of rice.

    According to him, the Hilux vehicle conveying the customs officer, marked ‘Strike Force Team,’ hit the Sienna bus, with number plate, APP 784 FM, and somersaulted several times.

    “When I inspected the Sienna bus, no single grain of rice was in it. The bus was returning from a church in Oron,” the source added.

    The customs command in Akwa Ibom State, however, declined comments on the matter.

    The state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Nnudam Fredrick, said the police in Oron had yet to brief him.

    “I have not been briefed by the police in Oron concerning the death of the two customs officers. I am not in the picture and I am not aware of the incident,” Fredrick said.

  • Five Nigerian pilgrims die in Saudi Arabia

    National Hajj Commission of Nigeria on Tuesday confirmed the death of five Nigerian pilgrims in Saudi Arabia.
    The Chairman of the National Medical Team, Ibrahim Kana, released the figure Tuesday in Madinah from the commission’s National Medical Team Electronic Health Medical Records.
    “So far, Nigeria has lost five pilgrims including three females and two males; out of which one died in Madina while the remaining four died in the city of Makkah.
    “They all died of various illnesses including heart and lung diseases.
    “Records shows that so far in both Makkah and Madina, we have made 10, 485 diagnosis with Makkah accounting for over 60 per cent.
    “Additionally, 108 referrals were made to various Saudi Arabian hospitals after keeping 45 pilgrims on observation for variety of illnesses in the four facilities in Madina and another five in Makkah.
    “In order to ameliorate suffering of pilgrims, all the clinics are located within a stone throw to pilgrims’ accommodation in both Makkah and Madina,” he stated.
    Over 150 million drugs had been consumed by Nigerian pilgrims at no cost to them, the record showed.
    “The National Hajj Commission of Nigeria prepared a drug forecast for the entire operation, including drugs for HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, donated by the Federal Ministry of Health.

    “The remaining was procured by the commission, both onshore and offshore, following government due process.
    “In terms of the wellbeing of pilgrims so far on the medical side, we are yet to encounter any serious situation or potential outbreak of any disease, except for the extreme temperatures.
    “We admonish our pilgrims to stay indoors as much as possible.
    “If they must go out, they should cultivate the use of umbrellas and consume plenty of cold water,” he said.

    Regarding concerns of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona Virus (MERS-CoV), Mr Kana said pilgrims were strongly advised to stay away from camels which were the reservoir and vector for the transmission of the disease.
    “We appeal to pilgrims to eat healthy and not patronise illegal food vendors to prevent cases of gastroenteritis as a result of food poisoning.
    “Similarly, pilgrims are strongly advised not to consume stale foods which get easily contaminated as a result of the high temperatures.”
    He also advised pilgrims to attend the health centres opened for them, reminding them that they were free to make use of the free services and called on the health personnel to be cautious and humane to “the guests of Allah.”
    Mr Kana said all the NAHCON clinics were fully computerised, “therefore, pilgrims with the habit of patronising clinics just to receive drugs would not be able to do that this time.”

  • Mortuary union embarks on strike, warns people ‘not to die for now’

    Mortuary Staff Union in Ghana, on Thursday, advised members of the public to wait until their strike is over on November 20th, before dying.

    Richard Kofi Jordan, General Secretary of the union gave the advice while indicating that the union’s planned strike action would go on as planned unless the government listens to their concerns, reports Ghanaweb.

    He said, “Those who intend to die during that period should wait. When mortuary men are back to work they die. Simple.

    Mortuary workers in Ghana’s public health facilities are protesting their poor working conditions and are therefore demanding improved terms of service.

    According to the aggrieved morticians, they are exposed to several diseases given their close contact with corpses and chemicals used in preserving them but each time they raise concerns, the government turns a deaf ear.

    “The chemicals we use give us five different kinds of cancers, the government is aware of this situation. We are also at risk of blindness but nobody is addressing our challenges.’’ He bemoaned.

  • Panic as mother, four children die from electrocution

    Panic as mother, four children die from electrocution

    A mother, Asmau Shehu and her four children, Yusuf, Rabiat, Ummul, and Hadi have been electrocuted in Anguwan Sarkin Hausawa, Bosso Local Government Area of Niger.

    Ibrahim Husssaini, the Public Relations Officer, State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), confirmed the tragedy in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Wednesday.

    Mr Husssaini said that Asmau and three of the children died immediately during a power surge while one of them later gave up of the ghost at General Hospital, Minna.

    He said that two other children, Hussana Shehu and Maryam Shehu, who sustained various degrees of injury had been receiving treatment at the Minna General Hospital.

    The image maker said the deceased had been buried according to Islamic rites.

     

  • Panic as APC leader falls from two-storey building, dies

    Panic as APC leader falls from two-storey building, dies

    A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bayelsa State chapter, Chief Lionel Jonathan-Omo, is dead.

    Jonathan-Omo, the Deputy Campaign Director General of Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation during the 2016 governorship election in the state reportedly had a fatal fall from the balcony of his two-storey building in his country home in Beleu-Pogo in Ogbolomabiri, Nembe Local Government Area of the state.

    He was said to be relaxing on the balcony when he started feeling dizzy. He was trying to get up with the aid of a pillar close to him when he fell off the two-storey building.

    Close associates revealed that the fatal fall from the balcony was discovered by his wife after hearing the sound from the kitchen.

    He was immediately rushed to a hospital in the state where doctors were said to have advised that he be taken to the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital in Rivers State.

    It was learnt that the deceased was operated upon when he was rushed to the UPTH but did not survive the operation.

    A member of the Nembe Council of Chiefs and the State Chairman of the Civil Liberties Organisation, Chief Nengi James, said the death of Jonathan-Omo, a former Law Lecturer at Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt, had thrown the Nembe Kingdom into mourning.

    He said the news of his death came as a shock, describing the late Jonathan-Omo as a colossus that had contributed greatly to the Nembe Kingdom and the state as a whole.

    Reacting to the development, the APC described the death of Jonathan-Omo as an “indescribable loss” of a wonderful ally at a time his experience and energy were most needed.

    In a statement in Yenagoa on Thursday by the State Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Doifie Buokoribo, the party said Jonathan-Omo, who died on Thursday was a forthright politician, and an illustrious son of Bayelsa State and the Ijaw nation who partook in popular activities to better the lives of his people.

    Buokoribo said, “Jonathan-Omo broke his limbs in a fall and fought bravely for his life at a private hospital in Port Harcourt to recover from the injuries he sustained. He never survived them.

    “The chief died on Thursday after an unsuccessful operation. All of us had hoped that Jonathan-Omo would recover from his injuries and get on with his life, particularly, at this time of intense political activities in our state and country when his experience and wisdom are seriously needed.

    “Lionel Jonathan-Omo, who is from Nembe, trained as a lawyer and taught Law at the Rivers State University of Science and Technology for several years. He was a former commissioner in Bayelsa State.

    “He was also a delegate representing the state at the 2005 National Political Reform Conference. Until his death, he was a member of the APC. During the 2015-2016 governorship elections, he was the Deputy Director General of the Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation.

  • Pandemonium as man slumps, dies during presentation at ICPC event

    There was pandemonium in Abuja on Tuesday as a yet unidentified man slumped and died while presenting a paper at a programme organised by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission, ICPC.

    According to a report by Premium Times, the man who was described as a representative of an invited organisation at the event, suddenly fell and died before arriving the hospital.

    ICPC’s spokesperson, Rasheedat Okoduwa, confirmed the incident in a telephone conversation with PREMIUM TIMES but declined giving the details about the dead man.

    Confirming the tragic event, spokesperson of ICPC, Rasheedat Okoduwa said: “Yes a man had slumped while presenting a paper at an event in our office today. We rushed him immediately to the hospital, but he was confirmed dead at the hospital.”

    Details later…