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Sahara Reporters Latest News Today and headlines on some of the happenings and news trend in the Country, today 07/09/19
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target=_blank>NCDC Confirms Death of Seven Tourists In Bauchi
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Friday said that seven tourists, who visited Yankari Games Reserve in the last one month in Bauchi State, died from an ailment believed to be Yellow Fever.
The NCDC said four confirmed cases have been recorded so far.
Three of them are residents of Alkeleri, the local council where the facility is situated, while a fourth is a person, who made visits to an unnamed location in Kano State and the games reserve in Bauchi.
The other six are said to have been among a party of 95 students from the Waka College of Education in Biu LGA of Borno State.
The disease surveillance agency said two other students had showed signs but were still alive as at the time the announcement was made on Twitter.
“NCDC was first notified on August 29 when we received the report of a confirmed case of Yellow Fever in Kano State from a laboratory.
“Subsequent investigations led by the Kano State Epidemiology Team established that this confirmed case of Yellow Fever was from a patient who visited the Yankari Games Reserve in Bauchi in August with his father.
“Unfortunately, the father died with similar symptoms before a sample could be collected and tested.
“Subsequently, on September 3, the Borno State Epidemiology Team reported deaths among students of Waka College of Education in Biu LGA.
“These students visited the Yankari Games Reserve in August.
“Of the 95 students that visited the resort, eight of them developed symptoms and six had died as at the time of the report,” the agency said.
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target=_blank>BREAKING: Ondo Senator, Tofowomo, Three Others Involved In Auto Accident
Lawmaker representing Ondo South Senatorial District at the National Assembly, Nicholas Tofowomo, has been involved in a car accident in Ondo State.
The lawmaker was reported to be heading to Abuja with his entourage when the accident happened on Friday evening.
Together with the senator was Banji Okunomo, Peoples Democratic Party Publicity Secretary in Ondo, and two other members of the party.
According to sources, the lawmaker and others involved in the crash are currently admitted at the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo, for treatment.
“They were rushed to the hospital immediately after the crash and two of those involved in the accident have been taken to the theatre already for surgery,” the source said.
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target=_blank>NCAC DG, Runsewe, Commended For Speaking Against Nudity, Bobrisky
Director-General of the National Council for Arts and Culture, Otunba Segun Runsewe, has been commended for rising up against nudity and immoral acts in the society.
In an open letter on Friday, a social commentator, John Akosa, hailed Runsewe for protecting the culture of the country by frowning against acts that bring shame to Nigeria and her people and also condemning the activities of popular cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye widely known as Bobrisky.
Recall that Bobrisky had received a warning from Runsewe to desist from engaging in acts that rubbishes Nigeria’s rich culture.
After that warning, Bobrisky fired back by boasting that nobody could touch him because he had connections in ‘high places’.
But in a move that signalled NCAC’s intent to protect Nigeria’s culture, the police in Lagos on August 31 sealed two venues scheduled to host the 28th birthday celebration of Bobrisky while the cross-dresser went into hiding thereafter.
Applauding Runsewe for the feat and protecting the future of Nigerian youth, Akosa said, “I hail your dedication and wisdom to draw the attention of Nigerians to the open deviant attitude of Idris Okuneye known as Bobrisky.
“Even though I do not speak for Nigerians, majority are happy and glad that you took the frontal battle to this community of confusionists and upholders of negative and insidious appearances.
“Continue to serve Nigeria to the best of your ability, encourage our return to the best usage of our culture and also focus on the youth who are future defenders of our culture.
“Do well to develop cultural programmes that can help restore our pride in our heritage and history.”
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E2%80%93driver-abducted-ondo-professor target=_blank>How My Boss Was Kidnapped –Driver Of Abducted Ondo Professor
Sunday Omonigbo, the driver of Prof Gideon Okedayo, who was kidnapped by some gunmen on Thursday night, has shed more light into how his boss was abducted.
Okedayo, a senior lecturer at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology, was abducted while in transit in Edo State.
According to Omonigbo, who spoke with SaharaReporters over the phone on Friday, the professor was seized while traveling back to his hometown of Igarra in Akoko Edo Area of Edo state.
He said, “We were driving in his vehicle when the kidnappers stopped us and started shooting into the air.
“They ordered us out of the car and threatened to kill us if we refused to obey their instructions.
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“Immediately we came out of the vehicle, they moved closer to my boss and dragged him away in the same vehicle.
“In the process, they hit me with a cutlass and injured me in my right hand. It was a very terrifying experience because I thought that they would kill the two of us.”
Divisional Police Officer of Igara Police Division, Ijana Awison, confirmed the incident when contacted by our correspondent.
He said, “The matter was reported here at the station and we have started our investigation into the incident.”
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target=_blank>Family Petitions Police Over Murder Of Ondo POS Operator
The family of Adetutu Ibrahim, a Point of Sales operator in Akure, Ondo State, who was killed by some gunmen on August 29 around the Oke-Ogba area of the city, has petitioned the police over her murder.
An elder brother of the victim, Adewale, told SaharaReporters on Friday that they had written a petition to the police over the matter and want a thorough investigation for justice to be served.
He said, “We are not sleeping over the case and we are following up because it is a painful incident to us as her family members.
“In fact, our lawyer have also written a petition to the police seeking for thorough investigations into the matter.”
Spokesperson for the Ondo State Police Command, Femi Joseph, said that they are working hard to unravel the circumstances surrounding Ibrahim’s murder.
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He said, “We are making progress on our investigation and have arrested three suspects in connection to the crime.
“The suspects are still with us and are cooperating and helping us with some useful information over the case.”
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target=_blank>Man Dies After Being Set Ablaze Over N200 Debt
The police in Delta State has arrested a woman for allegedly setting a young man ablaze over a N200 debt, leading to his death.
Commissioner of Police in the state, Adeyinka Adeleke, said another female accomplice allegedly involved in the crime was on the run.
The name of the victims was given as Sunday and it was revealed that he lived in Effurun under Uwvie Local Government Area of Delta.
According to The Nation, the women poured petrol on the victim and set him alight after accosting him to pay the N200 he owed one of them.
The victim died before he could be taken to the hospital for medical attention.
Adeleke said the suspect would be charged to court after investigation.
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target=_blank>BREAKING: Fire Guts Committee Room Inside National Assembly Complex
A minor fire outbreak was on Friday reported in one of the committee rooms at the National Assembly complex, Abuja.
The incident occurred inside committee room 322 at the House of Representatives building.
SaharaReporters gathered that the fire was put out by security personnel, who were on the ground to prevent it from spreading to other offices.
The cause of the fire could not be ascertained as at the time of this report and no casualty was reported.
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target=_blank>CACOL Calls For Introduction Of Anti-corruption Lessons In Primary, Secondary Schools
The Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership has called on the Nigerian Government to introduce the study of corruption and anti-corruption to pupils in primary and secondary schools in order to reduce corruption in the country.
The group made the call in a statement on Friday by its Executive Chairman, Debo Adeniran.
It said, “Since CACOL started this initiative of approaching the grassroots to take full ownership of this fight against corruption, we have received positive signals and hereby implore the government to evolve a more broadened approach that would design and incorporate the study of corruption as a curriculum/subject in all public and private primary and secondary schools in the country.
“Such would be climaxed by anti-corruption cadres in our various schools that would serve as veritable whistle-blowers against corruption wherever and whenever the cankerworm rears its ugly head.
“We as anti-corruption crusaders are willing and ready to partner governments at all levels to make this fight a success in order to rid our nation of its destructive agents and finally rollback corruption.”
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target=_blank>Xenophobia: Air Peace Delays Airlifting Due To Expired Travel Documents Of Nigerians In South Africa
Air Peace has postponed the free airlifting of Nigerians in South Africa due to expired travel documents of most citizens in that country.
Many Nigerians, who had been scheduled for evacuation back home in the face of attacks on them in South Africa, were said to be unable to tender valid travel documents when asked to do so.
As a result of the situation, the planned airlift originally scheduled for Friday, September 6, had been moved to Monday, September 9 or Tuesday, the following day.
Air Peace confirmed the development after discussions with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Nigerian High Commission in South Africa.
“Air Peace has prepared its aircraft, Boeing 777, for the flight since Tuesday but the Nigerian High Commission needed time to register Nigerians billed to travel.
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“They are already doing that in Johannesburg and Pretoria,” an airline source was quoted to have said.
In a series of xenophobic attacks on Nigerians and other African migrants, which began on August 28, over 50 shops and several investments belonging to foreigners had been destroyed while at least 10 persons were killed in the ensuing violence.
The situation has continued to anger many Nigerians back home with many taking to the streets to protest and attack South African businesses across the country in retaliation.
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Xenophobia: Nigeria Tired Of Repatriating Dead Citizens From South Africa –Gbajabiamila
Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said that Nigeria was fed up with repatriating the bodies of citizens killed in South Africa.
He made the statement in Abuja on Friday while condemning the latest xenophobic attacks on Nigerians in South Africa, adding that they would seek restoration and recompense for Nigerian victims.
Gbajabiamila said, “Let no one be left in any doubt, we will seek, and we will obtain by whatever means available, due restoration and recompense for all that has been lost in this latest conflagration and all the ones that have come before.
“We are committed to a sustained and special effort to see that justice is achieved for all our people who have suffered.
“We have heard the cries of our citizens, and we have witnessed their devastation; we will mourn for the dead and cry for the lost, but we will not stop there.
“Yet, today and too many a time, we are called to stand as pallbearers, bringing home to bury the bodies of our brothers and sisters, fathers and mothers, our children, savaged and decimated.
“What is their offence? That they dared to dream of glory and profit beyond our borders, and having dreamt, they endeavoured to make real the visions of their heart.
“We did not provoke nor do we deserve the violence that has been visited upon our people in South Africa.
“We reject entirely the obvious attempt to change the true narrative of events by casting the recently organised acts of violence as merely internecine conflict between gangs fighting for turf.
“Unless it is the position of South African Government that all Nigerians living in South Africa are gangsters and criminals, we demand that they reject these claims without equivocation.
“We will honour the lives of our fallen brothers by making sure that never again will our citizens’ inalienable right to life and liberty be so wantonly denied here at home or anywhere else in the world.”
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