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  • I almost committed Suicide – Julius Agwu

    I almost committed Suicide – Julius Agwu

    Popular Nigerian comedian, Julius Agwu has narrated the harrowing experience of how he survived brain tumours.

    Speaking in an interview alongside his wife, Ebere and his sister Theresa, Julius said he actually contemplated committing suicide one day.

    “The first seizure, I was actually in the room with him when it started,” his wife Ebere said. “I was talking to him and all of a sudden he is looking up to…”

    “I called the doctor on our way to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, the seizure came again, and I started praying.”

    Julius, who had a successful surgery in the US said, “What I remember was the fact that I woke up in the hospital and then I heard the story of my being in coma.

    “I lost my memory. The MRI scan revealed that I had three tumours in my brain.

    “I started looking for my property documents, I started giving my wife,” he said.

    “One day, they were not home , I almost committed suicide.”

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  • Suicide bomber kill self, vigilante in Borno

    Suicide bomber kill self, vigilante in Borno

    A suicide bomber and a local vigilante were killed during an attempt on a Maiduguri mosque on Monday morning, a security official has confirmed.

    Borno Police spokesman, Victor Isuzu, said a male suicide bomber carried out the attack at the Dalori area of the state capital.

    “Today at about 0522hrs, a male suicide bomber detonated Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strapped to his body near a mosque at Dalori Quarters situated along Maiduguri/ Konduga /Bama road.
    “The bomber killed himself and a local vigilante- the civilian JTF operative who tried to prevent him from getting close to the mosque where many faithful in the locality were observing their early morning prayers,” he said.

    20 people were killed at an attack in Buraburin area of Maiduguri In Dec, 28, 2016 while another four were killed two weeks ago at a Mosque in University of Maiduguri staff quarters.

    Isuzu said the area of the Monday attack had been secured and normal activities has resumed.

  • BREAKING: Many worshippers feared killed as suicide bomber attacks Borno mosque

    BREAKING: Many worshippers feared killed as suicide bomber attacks Borno mosque

    Many were reportedly feared killed on Tuesday after a suicide bomber attacked worshippers praying at a mosque in Dalori, Borno State.

    The horrendous attack happened after a suspected male suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) during a congregational morning Prayer at a mosque in Dalori quarter opposite the University of Maiduguri.

    Recall that a similar attack occurred recently at JS mosque near the staff quarters, killing a Director of veterinary medicine, Prof. Aliyu Mani, and many others.

    Details soon…

  • Army condoles with UNIMAID over death of Professor, 4 others in suicide attack

    The Nigeria Army on Monday condoled with University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) over the death of Prof. Aliyu Mani, the Director of Veterinary Medicine and four others who were killed by a suicide bomber in a Mosque.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the incident occurred around 5.45 a.m. on Monday at the senior staff quarters Mosque of UNIMAID.

    Brig.-Gen. Victor Ezugwu, the General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the army, gave the condolence when he visited the scene of the blast on Monday in Maiduguri.

    He said “we are here to sympathise with you on this ugly and sad incident and we want you not to be deterred in your endeavours.”

    Ezegwu added that the seven-year-old who perpetrated the act did not know what he was doing, stressing that “this is a boy that when you ask him to put his hand in fire, he cannot do it talks less of detonating himself with an IED.

    “We want to appeal to the Muslim community not to be deterred. Same incident like this had occurred in Damboa where Muslims were jam-packed and a suicide bomber detonated his explosive.

    “But I told them that this is the spirit; the Boko Haram terrorists want to scare you away. They want us to be afraid, they want us to live in fear.

    “The same thing happened here. We shouldn’t let this affect our faith and trust in God.

    “We are going to speak with the civilian JTF and the security; we also want to look at the factors that led to this ugly incident with a view to forestalling future occurance.”

    Meanwhile, Alhaji Muhammad Tanko, the Director, Public Relations of the university, said “all exams and classes had been suspended because of the ugly incident.”

    NAN recalls that Mani was the second Professor from the Faculty of Veterinary of the university that was killed by Boko Haram attack since the insurgency begun in 2009.

    Born in Katsina town on April 11, 1957, Prof. Mani attended Kayalwa Primary School, Katsina (1964-1970), proceeded to Government College Kaduna (1971-1975) and went to School of Basic Studies, ABU Zaria (1975-1976).

    He got admission into the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ABU Zaria and graduated with
    Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) in 1981.

    He did his NYSC with School of Agriculture in Asaba, worked briefly with Niger Basin Development Authority in Ilorin, Kwara, before he proceeded to University of Maiduguri as Assistant Lecturer, Department of Veterinary Medicine in October 1982.

    The late professor attended the Centre for Tropical Veterinary Studies, Edinburgh, UK,
    (1984-1985), where he got his Masters and later got his PhD in same school and returned to Maiduguri in 1994.

    He was a Fellow of the College of Veterinary Surgeons (2010), Director of UNIMAID Veterinary Teaching Hospital (1997-2000), Head of Department (2005-2010),
    Acting Dean of Vet Faculty (2008-2010).

    Until his death, he was the Director of UNIMAID Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

    He left behind one wife and two children.

  • Ekiti civil servant commits suicide over unpaid salary, accumulated debts

    Ekiti civil servant commits suicide over unpaid salary, accumulated debts

     

    Tragedy struck in Ao Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Thursday as a civil servant Tope Afolayan, said to be on Level 12, committed suicide over unpaid debt.

    Afolayan, a native of Oye Ekiti, worked in the office of the Accountant General of the State until the incident happened last Thursday.

    He is survived by a wife, who is a teacher at a public school in Ado Ekiti and three children. Afolayan was also a final year Law student at the Ekiti State University (EKSU).

    The deceased was also said to be an interpreter at a Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) branch in Ekute area of Ado Ekiti.

    His colleague, who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Sunday disclosed that Afolayan committed suicide by hanging himself in the ceiling of his house, located on Peace Avenue, Olorunda, Ado Ekiti.

    Afolayan, who has since been buried, did not leave any suicide note before taking his life.

    He was, however, said to have consistently complained of failure to pay his debts because of the non-payment of arrears of salaries owed government workers.

    A source said: “Although he didn’t leave any suicide note before hanging himself, he had been very moody and heartbroken for a couple of weeks before the incident happened.

    “He had been complaining about the debts he owed which he was unable to defray because of the arrears of salaries. In fact, he was among the last batch of applicants for car loan but his name did not come out.

    “We are shocked by Tope’s death because nobody thought he would go to that extent, we are still mourning his death.”

    Police spokesman Alberto Adeyemi confirmed the incident which, according to him, was reported at New Iyin Road Police Station in Ado Ekiti.

     

  • How to identify suicide bombers, accomplices – Nigerian Army

    The Nigerian Army has enlightened the general public on how best to identify fleeing terrorists in the country particularly in the northeast.

    Disclosing how to identify a suicide bomber or an accomplice, Spokesman for the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Sani Usman, told Channels TV that the terrorists, forced out of their enclaves, have taken to attacking soft targets, mostly with suicide bombers who are more of young females.

    Usman stressed the need for residents of different communities in Nigeria’s northeast and other cities to be wary of fleeing Boko Haram members, hinting that the process of coupling an IED would require inputs from different persons, making it possible for those observing to know that crisis was imminent.

    He said, “Terrorists are normal human beings that mingle with the public. Whenever you are coupling an IED about 10 other persons will be in the chain of it.

    “If the public are more vigilant, they will notice something amiss.

    “When you see somebody buying bells of nails and you know for sure he does not have the capacity to buy that quantity of nails and you know him very well to the point that he is not embarking on a building project, then something is wrong.

    “Sometime, you will see somebody in the night moving about when every other normal human being is sleeping or somebody, wearing a winter coat when actually it is so hot.

    “His mode of dressing is so awkward that you will think that you are in a winter society. In most cases they are odd.

    “They know the mode of dressing of people within a locality and that, a soldier posted to the area, may not know. They can identify when there is something strange about a person’s dress.

    “It is very important that we involve the people that are on ground,” he added, urging Nigerians to report suspected persons to security agencies within their locality to save lives.

  • I wanted to commit suicide- Lepacious Bose

    Many are still dumbfounded by Lepacious Bose’s weight loss story. The top comedienne was once a fat woman who leveraged on her size to tell her jokes. To many, Bose is at home with her massive weight. When she shared the pains behind her weight loss on Adesua Onyenokwe’s Seriously Speaking, people were surprised, she had her own issues she was battling with.

    According to her:” I was getting to a particular age, menopause was approaching and I said to myself it’s time to start asking myself some certain questions. The very serious thing about that is this, up until that time, I hadn’t seen my period in two years. And I will visit the doctors and they will tell me there is nothing wrong with me, telling me my hormones are not just balanced and they will prescribe hormonal pills.”

    “The hormonal pills were making me bigger. The bigger I got, the more depressed I became and the more depressed I became, the more I ate.”

    “My life was spiraling out of control and I didn’t know what to do anymore. I was seriously close to suicide. I was that sad and that depressed. It was a complex emotion for me and wasn’t something easy for me to discuss with anybody else. I was the only one that knew the web I was caught in and how I was feeling about it. I just felt it was time for me to take a decision”

     

     

  • Assistant Commissioner of Police commits suicide in Benin

     

    An Assistant Commissioner of Police, ACP, identified as Christopher Osakue, has reportedly committed suicide in Benin, the Edo State capital.

    According to a report by The Punch, the late police officer, who was in charge of training and development at the state police command after his recent posting from Ondo State, allegedly shot himself in the head with his service pistol in his residence located on Upper Sokponba on Wednesday.

    Osakue had earlier suffered a partial stroke few years ago and was gradually recovering from it before he took his own life.

    According to the report, the deceased had sent a woman and a little boy, said to be living with him, on an errand before he shot himself to death.

    A neighbour was said to have heard a gunshot inside the ACP’s residence about 5pm on the said day and shortly after the sound of the gun, a frightening silence engulfed the entire building.

    Confirming the incident on Friday, the Commissioner of Police, CP, Haliru Gwandu, explained that the pistol which he allegedly used to commit the act was signed for at the Ondo State Police command before he was posted to Edo.

    The CP described the senior police’ death as a case of suicide.

     

  • BREAKING: Two female terrorists killed as suicide attack foiled in Maiduguri

    BREAKING: Two female terrorists killed as suicide attack foiled in Maiduguri

    The Borno State Police Command has confirmed the death of two female suicide bombers in a failed attempt to invade Maiduguri.

    According to the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) of the Borno Police Command, Victor Isuku, the suicide bombers were halted at the outskirt of Maiduguri.

    Isuku, in a text message, stated that: “At About 2030hrs yesterday (Sunday), two female suicide bombers were halted to stop for routine check at Geleri village which is about 5km to Muna Garage, an outskirt of Maiduguri.

    “One of the suicide bombers detonated the IED strapped to her body killing her and her accomplice whose IED vest did not explode. Three residents of the area were however injured.

    “The command’s EOD unit rushed to the scene to render the unexploded IED safe. The area has been secured and normalcy restored.”

     

     

  • Dial 112 if any one attempts suicide due to MMM crash – LASEMA

    Sequel to the outbreak of the ‘frozen’ accounts and alleged crash of the Mavrodi Mondial Moneybox, otherwise known as ‘MMM’, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, has cautioned that suicide rate ‘may’ rise in the state.

    LASEMA gave the advice after a twitter user cautioned that suicide rates may increase in Lagos, due to the controversial ‘pause’ of the scheme.

    On its Twitter handle @lasemasocial, the LASEMA RESPONSE UNIT dropped an emergency number to call should any case of suicide arise in any part of the state.

    It said, “Dial 112 if you see any in your area. #LagosCares.”

    This is coming a few hours after a soon-to-wed Benue man drank insecticide following the alleged crash of the Ponzi scheme.

    Recall that promoters and participants of MMM in Nigeria on Tuesday woke up to the shocking news that the ponzi scheme was frozen and all confirmed accounts suspended.