Boko Haram :Lagos Evacuates 200 from Maiduguri

Joke Adefulire, Lagos state Deputy Governor

The Lagos state government has commenced the evacuation of its citizens from the University of Maiduguri and by  Friday the state had moved 200 students from the violence ridden city to Yola, Adamawa State from where it started airlifting them to Lagos.

The first batch of the students that arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos were received by officials of the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), led by the general manager, Dr Oluwafemi  Osanyintolu

According to the LASEMA boss, the evacuation of the 200 Lagos residents followed the alert raised in Maiduguri, which prompted the agency to dispatch its officials to the crisis zone, who evacuated the residents to Yola Airport, from where they are being air lifted into Lagos.

Ex-Borno gov in Aso Rock, denies Boko Haram links

A former governor of Borno State, Alli Modu Sherrif, accused of being the godfather of the violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, met with President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday and denied his alleged links with the group.

Ex-Borno Governor created Boko Haram – Gen Useni

ABUJA- THE Chairman of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, Lt. Gen. Jeremiah Useni (rtd) yesterday gave an insight into the emergence of the deadly Islamic sect, Boko Haram, saying that the group used to function as a political thuggery cell to a former governor of Borno State.
The retired army general who spoke with State House correspondents, after separate meetings with President Goodluck Jonathan and Vice President Namadi Sambo also supported the use of force by the Nigeria Army to flush out Boko Haram, saying that “like in war, the soldiers must be working on information on the Boko Haram. Innocent ones would definitely be killed in the process of trying to dislodge the Boko Haram members from their base”.
This is just as the leadership of the ACF called for the convocation of a Northern Peace Summit to discuss and proffer possible solution to the menace of the Islamic sect, currently ravaging the region.

President Goodluck Jonathan flanked by the Chairman Arewa Consultative Forum, Lt. Gen Jerry Useni and Vice President Namadi Sambo (2l) while others watched during a meeting with the Presidency and the Northern Leaders at the State House, Abuja. Photo by Abayomi Adeshida

Gen. Useni disclosed that he had earlier warned the former governor against the use of thugs during election, saying that like in Rivers state where thuggery gave birth to militancy, Boko Haram used to be a political thug group; but later metamorphosed into a terror entity.

32-year-old twins born blind cry for help

By Gbubemi God’s Covenant Snr.

THURSDAY, May 5, 2011 was their 32nd birthday, but Taiwo and Kehinde Lawal, blind twins were separated about 300 kilometres apart, for lack of a home, the junior squatting with the mother of a blind man she hopes to marry someday, and the senior squatting on an all-male blind people’s centre in Ketu, Lagos. Nobody sent them a gift or card to wish them many happy returns of the day. Gbubemi God’s Covenant Snr. had an encounter with Kehinde and Taiwo who bemoan their fate, painting a picture of gloomy and futureless birthday for adult twins.

A marriage in sign language!

THE bride, Oluwayemisi Olatokunbo Ogunbayo, a Master�s degree holder in Special Child Education from Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. the United States (US) is deaf and cannot speak. The groom, Opeoluwa Samuel Sotonwa, a lawyer, who holds a Master�s degree in Law from Howard University in Washington, and in the service of the US government is also deaf, but can speak to some extent.

ONLY the unfathomable script of predestination could work out this history, which is unlikely to be equalled or beaten anytime soon. The bride, Oluwayemisi Olatokunbo Ogunbayo, a Master’s degree holder in Special Child Education from Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., the United States of America (USA) is deaf and cannot speak. 

Nigerian who built his own car....

A young Nigerian engineer who built and rides in a car he built has one ambition, to build cars that will be sought after in international market.

Residents of Lagos Island and environs have now and again caught sight of a cute, rugged red SUV cruising along the highways or parked by the beaches on weekends with the slogan: ‘A question of attitude’ scrawled on its side. Don’t go shopping for it in any showroom because it is one of its kind in the whole wide world, fully Nigerian, built in Nigeria, by a Nigerian who had the ‘can do’ spirit GBUBEMI GOD’S COVENANT, SNR and DENNIS OKOSUN cruised around the Island in the jeep and filed in this report.

The young engineer is Sunday Abiodun Okpere, born on December 25, 1975 in Ebute-Metta, Lagos Mainland to Victoria and Augustine Okpere. His father was a managing director with the old National Electric Power Authority before he passed on when Sunday was only two years old.

Inside Abia baby factories

 

Building where Orikara formerly operated

The sight that confronted a team of policemen that raided the building located on Brass Street, Aba, Abia State, could only conjure a picture of the dark days of slavery.For all of four years, since opening the facility in 2007.