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2015 presidential race: Cold war in APC, Buhari rebuffs younger presidential aspirants..

A cold war has broken out among presidential aspirants in the All Progressives Congress, APC following reported entreaties by younger elements among the contenders to persuade erstwhile head of state, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari out of the contest.
The party also called on past leaders of the country to salvage the country from total collapse in the hands of present administration.
National chairman of the party Chief John Oyegun made the call when he led top members of the party to the Up Hill resident of former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida on a courtesy visit Thursday night.

Son kills father, buries him in shallow grave in Enugu
A young man said to be a member of a kidnap gang operating in Enugu State, Mr. Chukwuekezie Ofonago has shot his father dead.
The suspect now in police net admitted to have shot his father, Mr. George Ofonago with a double-barrel gun at a hideout where he was kept while demanding an undisclosed sum as ransom from his family.
The incident occurred at Abor village  Enugu Inyi Community, Oji River Local Government Area of Enugu State.


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According to the State Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Ebere Amaraizu, operatives of the Homicide Section of the State Criminal and Investigations Department (SCID) of the state police command have already commenced full scale investigations into the incident.
He said that the deceased had suddenly disappeared from his home prompting his family members to raise an alarm.
The son was fingered to have been involved in his father’s disappearance in the course of the search.
“Following the sudden disappearance of the deceased, information got to the security operatives about the involvement of the son whom his family suspected reasonably to have played a suspicious role,” he said.
While the kidnappers continued to demand for ransom from their hideout, the son of the deceased was tracked down by the police.
He gave an insight on how he abducted the father and took him to where he allegedly shot him dead with a single barrel gun and buried him in a shallow grave.
Chukwuekezie confessed that it was not his wish to  shoot the father but that he was under pressure from the father who had instructed him to shoot him to death.

Boko Haram: Insiders compromise sensitive information – Expert 

The National Assembly has been advised to urgently pass legislation on sensitive information in order to safeguard Nigeria’s economic and military secrets from prying eyes.
Presenting the lead paper at the 2014 Security Seminar/Workshop held recently, the President of Association of Industrial Security & Safety Operators of Nigeria (AISSON), Dr. Ona Ekhomu said that foreign espionage was a concern for the compromising of national secrets for economic or military gain. Ekhomu, contended that given the penchant of some of our policy makers to give sensitive contracts to foreigners our national secrets are constantly under severe threat. He said that foreigners in Nigeria are here “to serve their home interests or the interests of any metropolitan powers that recruited them”.
“Intelligence is a key component of the war on terror, and since fifth columnists have been identified in the security agencies and in the government, national secrets need to be better protected in order to give Nigeria the strategic advantage in the war on terror.”
The renowned security expert stated that the sale of key parastatals and installations to foreign companies and interests as a result of the government’s privatization and commercialization program was fraught with considerable risk.
He warned that foreign intelligence agencies were aggressively gathering intelligence against Nigeria — some of which might be aiding the war efforts of Boko Haram.
Ekhomu warned against the insider threat, stating that sensitive information should be protected from insiders as it has become evident that some insiders compromise sensitive information, as has been seen in some Boko Haram ambush against military personnel.

Another MASSOB bloodshed imminent in Owerri toady
The crisis rocking the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has taken a new twist with the organization’s director of information, Mr. Uchenna Madu warning members to steer clear of the meeting convened in Owerri today by its leader, Chief Ralph Uwazurike as there is most likely to be bloodshed during the meeting.
In a statement made available to reporters in Awka yesterday, Madu said it was improper for Uwazurike to convene such  a meeting when the mayhem that led to the loss of several lives at Okwe, Uwazurike’s home town, was yet to calm down.
He said: “Uwazuruike has just summoned a meeting of all MASSOB members at Owerri for Saturday, 30th August, 2014. We see this as another evil plan to sacrifice the blood of some members.
“Because of the face-off between Uwazurike and the Nigeria police, there was unwarranted death of some members from Onitsha at Okwe on the order of Chief Ralph Uwazurike recently.
“The death of our members from Onitsha has exposed the selfishness and insensitivity of MASSOB leader who uses the organization to enrich himself.”
“MASSOB lost 18 members in Onitsha during the last sit at home exercise on June 08, 2013 which was a total flop, During MASSOB two months camping at Kilometer 7 Onitsha-Owerri Road, beside old spare parts market, Obosi on the order of Uwazuruike, MASSOB lost about eight members and these young Igbo youths have not been given proper burials, neither have their families been consoled. In fact, their names no longer exist in MASSOB register.
“Our members should be aware that security situation in Imo state is not healthy for MASSOB because of the ongoing crisis and death of our members at Okwe recently.
“This Owerri meeting is merely to create tension and bloody encounters which may result to sacrificing more innocent lives.
“Because of Uwazurike’s actions, MASSOB members are no longer interested in Nigeria politics. Since he threw MASSOB into the open market of Nigeria politics, anybody, group or political party who needs MASSOB members’ political support, campaign and vote should also involve MASSOB regional administrators, zonal leaders and national officials in their discussions and modalities for them to succeed.”


How I survived Ebola – Dennis Akagha

He and his wife-to-be had lofty dreams of living fulfilled lives and raising wonderful children together. The fiance was two months pregnant and their traditional marriage had been fixed for October.
His fiancee, a graduate nurse, had just secured a job at First Consultant Hospital, Lagos. He too also just got a marketing job with an oil and gas company. She was reluctant to go to work on the first day she was expected to resume on account of ‘morning sickness’ (pregnancy symptoms) and he encouraged her.
She did! Lo and behold, her first duty and first patient to nurse on her first day at work was the late Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian-American, who brought the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) to Nigeria. And that decision put a full stop to the lofty dreams of a promising family. Welcome to the world of Mr. Dennis Akagha, the husband-to-be of late Miss Justina Ejelonu, the nurse, who contacted and died of the Ebola disease from Mr. Sawyer.
In an exclusive, explosive and passionate interview with Saturday Vanguard, Akagha, who contracted the disease from Miss Justina, was quarantined, treated, cured and discharged last week, spoke on how and why his fiancee died, how he contacted and survived the disease, how he was stigmatized and abandoned by co-workers and neighbours, and why victims must be given adequate care. He said perhaps, Justina would have survived with better care. Read on:
His thoughts on Ebola and late Justina
The truth is that Justina and I were not legally married, we were planning for our traditional marriage in October and she just got this job. She was a qualified graduate nurse and got the job at the First Consultant Hospital in Lagos. She resumed duty at the hospital on the 21st of July, while Patrick Sawyer was admitted at the hospital on the 20th.
He was her first patient. She was one of the nurses that nursed him. She was pregnant and so her immune system was weak, which made it easy for her to contract the disease. On that first day which was a Monday, she was having some pregnancy symptoms, but I just encouraged her to go because it was her first day at work. Sawyer was her first patient.The next day, Tuesday, she didn’t work on Sawyer. Wednesday and Thursday, she was off. Then on Friday, Patrick Sawyer died. They didn’t know he had Ebola, it was three days later that they realized it was Ebola.

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