: Truck that crushed a lady to death this morning has been set on fire

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photos: Truck that crushed a lady to death this morning has been set on fire</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1953267162511071557" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeo2wneGUy0J4-7rDz3jCVCMX0b5uGtDcPzjApBFDEJhxcSdxaOcCK-TcoSaR6yZEjzROFVHmnM8H6__1HQdSSzvo9AxzqoaiuoUrxxCG9KYeC0IUUwsn4IQFIsH0iNgHbeEEmfuG8i-B/s1600/0.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeo2wneGUy0J4-7rDz3jCVCMX0b5uGtDcPzjApBFDEJhxcSdxaOcCK-TcoSaR6yZEjzROFVHmnM8H6__1HQdSSzvo9AxzqoaiuoUrxxCG9KYeC0IUUwsn4IQFIsH0iNgHbeEEmfuG8i-B/s1600/0.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1953267162511071557" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> The truck that crushed a woman to death this morning in Lekki, Lagos (read <a href="http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2014/08/graphic-pics-truck-crushes-lady-to.html" style="text-decoration: none;">here</a>), has been set on fire by an angry mob. Other trucks in the area were also damaged. The lady's husband (you will find him after the cut) is now at the scene. Police and Local Government officials are also now on ground. See more pics after the cut...<br /><br /><a href="" name="more"></a> <br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: black;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo105uASL2HQ-EDsEQwasyF99bkq80B5CuTYbbE2-cpe_oJT3X4kRE0e252Wg9AdQSqG6S0rGum7NpAlAoVmaoB0b1w6nHcqamn1Ck-QIIXG0NRV8WGV8OPU6mySinMkG-NIF89HigH7Te/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo105uASL2HQ-EDsEQwasyF99bkq80B5CuTYbbE2-cpe_oJT3X4kRE0e252Wg9AdQSqG6S0rGum7NpAlAoVmaoB0b1w6nHcqamn1Ck-QIIXG0NRV8WGV8OPU6mySinMkG-NIF89HigH7Te/s1600/5.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQK4X7T29VtkSsKx0xsAN2vl-ggb1SEm_-vyZzl5Xb6yQy7Cix9O9-qt_zez9QwklgMwIVGJkT4ZFQ7MuVnQYT1N4V8NOD7vFW3zDjgCFgdHg6UHgONAIWUB_3YPz9pH-_L0I0spVw62_/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKQK4X7T29VtkSsKx0xsAN2vl-ggb1SEm_-vyZzl5Xb6yQy7Cix9O9-qt_zez9QwklgMwIVGJkT4ZFQ7MuVnQYT1N4V8NOD7vFW3zDjgCFgdHg6UHgONAIWUB_3YPz9pH-_L0I0spVw62_/s1600/1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50NyIpqzZmvfaITbOfHzKWaH765y0tSYVj47mMJeHQOYs6wiWOdRc9iZgMaKAWGySgM2amGWY4z4FdLwA8Z_5fjrqwolBVSoSwiRuYtBlOq5qgS5VJTRBbo0cJHtqxRYeogP4B5INuHUc/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50NyIpqzZmvfaITbOfHzKWaH765y0tSYVj47mMJeHQOYs6wiWOdRc9iZgMaKAWGySgM2amGWY4z4FdLwA8Z_5fjrqwolBVSoSwiRuYtBlOq5qgS5VJTRBbo0cJHtqxRYeogP4B5INuHUc/s1600/4.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4kbFQyvFlw0a0FTRfWxiUxBh8jzpRdH_VavDXC2upmmQ9yNto4s1xY2RTGiQJg1bZc9GhnQgdYq0KkhIHItD5A0PKRVTuznRn_nwUu5oiozM3QW1wgcyRCe6sri5QDZekte4TrgcFtc3/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo4kbFQyvFlw0a0FTRfWxiUxBh8jzpRdH_VavDXC2upmmQ9yNto4s1xY2RTGiQJg1bZc9GhnQgdYq0KkhIHItD5A0PKRVTuznRn_nwUu5oiozM3QW1wgcyRCe6sri5QDZekte4TrgcFtc3/s1600/2.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />   </span></div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1953267162511071557" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">    The lady's husband pictured puking below...</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: black; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqoEkFhnb9sNw70ewcGwMx-h8nf45spDd4qlqvfUJeq9WJ2FnSOqBP3R0-riPcVuhmFGB80j3jucyQ_kCyALdA_5mCZbefPmUKo_D1hW97eJw7g1rQ7_2EG1QeLlKinjwZVQnxOz9QcQHG/s1600/unnamed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); 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How Ebola Virus Disease Came To Our Door, By First Consultants Hospital

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement Dr. Adadevoh co-authored with Dr. B.N. Ohiaeri before her death explained how Mr. Sawyer was first diagnosed with malaria upon his arrival on the night of July 20. It was when he failed to respond to treatment but instead began to develop “haemorrhagic symptoms” that he was questioned further.</span><br /> <div> <br /></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, the Nigerian physician who died in Lagos this week, was mistakenly exposed to the Ebola Virus Disease at the First Consultants Medical Center in Ikoyi where she worked and attended to Patrick Sawyer, the patient who brought EVD into the country.</span><br /> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span class="ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded pull-right clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; display: block; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5.5px 24px; max-width: 500px; width: 300px;"><span class="block-story-object-asset" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img alt="Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor" class="media-element file-embedded" src="https://secure.saharareporters.com/sites/default/files/styles/normal_medium/public/adad.jpg?itok=PvA6sBjQ" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; margin: 0px; vertical-align: middle; width: 300px;" title="Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor" typeof="foaf:Image" /></span></span><span class="block-story-object-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; padding: 12px;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block;"><span class="block-story-object-content-header-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; text-shadow: none;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dr. Ameyo Stella Adadevor</span></span></span><span class="block-story-object-content-footer" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin-top: 6px;"></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box;">But she was heroically instrumental to preventing a massive outbreak in the country, an effort she paid for with her life last Tuesday.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A statement she co-authored with Dr. B.N. Ohiaeri before her death explained how Mr. Sawyer was first diagnosed with malaria upon his arrival on the night of July 20.  It was when he failed to respond to treatment but instead began to develop “haemorrhagic symptoms” that he was questioned further.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“He denied having been in contact with any persons with EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) at home, in any hospital or at any burial,” the statement said.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First Consultants Medical Centre then began testing him for possible Infectious Haemorrhagic Disease, especially EVB, based on the fact that he was a Liberian citizen and the recent outbreak of EVD in that country, leading to EVD diagnosis. </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At that point, it was too late for Mr. Sawyer, but it appears it was also too late for Dr. Adadevoh, who then contracted the virus, and tragically died of the disease this week.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">Text of the statement by First Consultants Medical Center Ltd</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">In the interest of our patients, staff, the general public the nation at large we state the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A 40-years old gentlemen came into the hospital with symptoms suggestive of Malaria (fever, headache, extreme weakness) on Sunday night (20th July 2014). He was fully conscious and gave us his clinical history and told us he is a Senior Diplomat from Liberia. Laboratory investigations confirmed malaria whilst other test for HIV, Hepatitis B&C were negative. He was admitted and treatment commenced.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />However, due to the fact that he was not responding to treatment but rather was developing haemorrhagic symptoms we further questioned him. He denied having been in contact with any persons with EVD (Ebola Virus Disease) at home, in any hospital or at any burial. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In spite of this denial we immediately decided to do the following:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1. To conduct further tests for possible Infectious Haemorrhagic Disease, especially EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE, based on the fact that he was a Liberian citizen and the recent outbreak of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in that country.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />2. We immediately isolated/quarantined the patient, commenced barrier nursing and simultaneously contacted the Lagos State Ministry of Health and the Federal Ministry of Health to enquire where further laboratory tests could be performed as we had a high index of suspicion of possible EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />3. WE REFUSED FOR HIM TO BE LET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL IN SPITE OF INTENSE PRESSURE, AS WE WERE TOLD THAT HE WAS A SENIOR ECOWAS OFFICIAL AND HAD AN IMPORTANT ROLE TO PLAY AT THE ECOWAS CONVENTION IN CALABAR, CROSS RIVER STATE.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />4. The initial test results from LUTH laboratory indicated a signal of possible EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE, but required confirmation.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />5. We then took the further step of reaching out to Senior Officials in the office of the Secretary of Health of the United States of America who promptly assisted us with contacts at the centres for Disease Control (CDC) and World Health Organisation Regional Laboratory Centre in Senegal.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />6. Working jointly with the State, Federal Agencies and International Agencies, we were able to obtain confirmation of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE (ZAIRE STRAIN), (W.H.O. Regional Center Lab-Senegal/Redeemes lab/LUTH Laboratory)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />7. The gentleman subsequently died on Friday at a 6.50 (25th July, 2014)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />8. All agencies were promptly notified and in consultation with W.H.O, Regional EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE Centre in Conakry, Guinea and Best Practices, the following was commenced: </span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">a. Orderly temporarily shut down of the hospital with immediate evacuation of in house patients</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">b. The appropriate professional removal of the body and its incineration under W.H.O. guidelines, witnessed by all appropriate agencies.</span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; text-shadow: none;">9. Having concluded the above, it is now appropriate to give this press release in the interest of our patient, staff, the general public and the nation at large.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />10. In keeping with W.H.O, guidelines, hospital is shut down briefly as full decontamination exercise is currently in progress W.H.O. Guidelines<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />In conclusion, working with the STATE, FEDERAL AND INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, we were able to identify and confirm the diagnosis of the EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE. We hope that by our action of preventing this gentleman from being extracted from our hospital and traveling to Calabar we have been able to prevent the spread of EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE in Nigeria. <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Board and Management of the Hospital wish to thank all our staff members for their diligence and professionalism.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thank You.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Signed<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Dr. B.N. OHIAERI<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />DR. A.S. ADADEVEOH<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />First Consultants Medical Centre Limited<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />16/24 Ikoyi Road,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Obalende,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Lagos</span></div> </div>

How Ebola Virus Disease Came To Our Door, By First Consultants Hospital

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Ebola: Dearth of volunteers persist in Lagos despite N60,000 daily pay, insurance

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 class="entry-title posttitle" itemprop="name headline" style="border: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 30px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 2819px;"> <span style="font-size: small;">-Sun Newspaper</span></h1> <div id="entryContainer" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="entry entry-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 6px 0px 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LAGOS State is facing the problem of shortage of volunteers to help care for the victims of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD). In spite of a life insurance scheme and N60, 000 daily allowance being offered by the state government, health workers and volunteers are still not forthcoming.</span></div> <br /> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is coming as the Ebola disease saga in Nigeria took a sinister twist with cases of Ebola virus infection emerging among two spouses of the health workers (primary contacts) that attended to the index (first) case, Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer.</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignright" id="attachment_460518" style="border: 0px; float: right; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 20px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 422px;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/unn-students-wage-war-ebola-virus/unn-ebola-pix/" rel="attachment wp-att-460518" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, border-top-color; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="*Biochemistry students of UNN staging an awareness campaign on Ebola virus." class="size-full wp-image-460518" height="351" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/UNN-Ebola-pix.gif" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.247059) 1px 1px 1px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></span></a></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">*Biochemistry students of UNN staging an awareness campaign on Ebola virus.</span></div> </div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Minister for Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu, who confirmed the development in an announcement  yesterday in Abuja,  said the new cases are among the secondary contacts who have been under surveillance in Lagos but were quarantined as soon as they developed Ebola symptoms.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Disturbed by the dearth of volunteers, the Lagos State Government has appealed to health workers and volunteers to come forward to join the state’s effort in the battle against the dreaded EVD.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lagos State Commissioner for Health Dr. Jide Idris, said they were striving to save the lives of confirmed Ebola cases but “our major challenge in this regard is personnel with requisite expertise, hence, our call for volunteers.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“We require experts in different medical fields including critical care and infectious diseases and these still need to be trained using the World Health Organisation (WHO) protocol which may require up to five days of committed training before such experts can apply their skills safely without risk to themselves. Our international experts are currently providing this training on site.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is coming on the heels of the donation of 30 body scanners by the United States of America, USA, government to the Nigerian government to check body temperature at the country’s various ports of entry.’’</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking on the two new cases, Onyebuchi said: “The two are spouses of a man and woman who had direct contact with Liberian-American Patrick Sawyer, who flew into the country last month with the virus and infected 11 others before he died in July, including the male and female caregiver who both subsequently died of Ebola.’’</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The last two cases bring the total number of confirmed infections in Nigeria, including Sawyer, to 14. This brings to four the total number of EVD patients currently under treatment at the isolation ward of the Ebola Control unit of the Mainland Hospital, Lagos.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“The number of deaths still remains five while the number of those successfully managed and discharged also stands at five,” Chukwu said, noting that Federal Government, is working with  the Lagos State government and other partners, to maintain vigilance and continue to strengthen containment of the dreaded Ebola virus.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Along with Sawyer, the Lead Consultant at First Consultants Medical Centre, Dr Ameyo Stella Adadevoh, one other female doctor, a nurse, and an official of the ECOWAS office in Lagos have so far died of Ebola in Nigeria.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was not immediately clear if the newly confirmed cases are spouses of primary contacts who are dead or alive even though Chukwu had earlier in the week, hinted that with a good number of secondary contacts yet to complete the 21-day incubation period, the possibility of more cases of Ebola could not be entirely ruled out.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He reassured the global community that the country would not relent until the very last case of the disease is eradicated.The Federal Government, Chukwu said, is working with the Lagos State government and other partners, to maintain vigilance and continue to strengthen containment.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Federal Government, last Thursday approved the release of N200 million to Lagos State to fight the disease.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">However, the emergence of Ebola infected secondary contacts is unprecedented and heightens fears about the possibility of the disease spreading beyond expectations.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It also raises questions about the validity of assurances earlier given about the general low risk of exposure to the index case alleged to have been taken to hospital immediately on arrival at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Reaching all contacts</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Thursday, the Lagos state Commissioner for Health, Dr. Jide Idris said a total of 213 people were  currently under surveillance as part of efforts to monitor people who may have been potentially exposed to Ebola and that all persons certified negative have been freed.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Ebola  virus runs a maximum of 21 days and aside the treatment for those who have full blown cases, the more important work is tracking all those who have had primary and secondary contact.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Reaching all contacts is believed to be crucial towards gaining control over the virus, according to the World Health Organisation, which expressed cautious optimism when it noted that it was hopeful over the situation in Nigeria because all the confirmed cases came from a single chain of transmission.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Plans underway to honour Dr Adedevoh — </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">FG</span></span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Arrangements are being made by the federal government to honour Dr Stella Ameyo Adadevoh for the sacrifice she made in ensuring that Ebola did not spread to other parts of the country, the Minister of Health, Prof. Chukwu said yesterday in Abuja yesterday when he received the Association of Private Medical Practitioners in his office.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chukwu who commended the efforts of private medical practitioners in the country especially the role played by the First Consultant Hospital and the late Dr Adadevoh which he described as very crucial in ensuring that the virus do not spread like in other countries.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He said that the role of private medical practitioners have become sacrosanct, adding; “particularly now when public medical practitioners,  doctors are on strike.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“You have lost one of your colleague,  Dr Adadevoh,  we mourn her and all Nigerians who lost their lives to Ebola. We will ensure that her bravery,  courage and patriotism will not go unnoticed.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">NAS cautions against stigma, panic</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">President of the Nigeria Academy of Science, Prof Oyewale Tomori, cautioned against panic and stigmatizing of victims.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In a statement, Tomori said: “As the foremost independent scientific body in the country, and based on available evidence from the 22 other outbreaks of EVD that have occurred in the East and Central Africa in the past, the Academy wishes to state that there is absolutely no need for panic, but that the public should fully cooperate with the appointed health authorities. “The EVD is a deadly disease but patients stand a good chance of survival if taken in early for supportive management. The Nigerian record of the number of patients already discharged from the Ebola Treatment Centre strongly supports this. It is important to point out that these persons were discharged after having been certified virus-free by the laboratories at LUTH and Redeemers University.”</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">MDCAN commends FG</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meanwhile the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, MDCAN, has commended the Government  over its response to the Ebola disease. It also called on Nigerian communities to cooperate with the government to locate treatment centres in any area of choice by the Ministries of Health.</span></div> <div style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rising from a meeting of its Executive Committee, MDCAN in a statement, signed by the President, Dr Steven Oluwole also called for better protection for the health personnel in the forefront of the fight against the disease.</span></div> </div> </div> </div>

Ebola: Dearth of volunteers persist in Lagos despite N60,000 daily pay, insurance

-Sun Newspaper LAGOS State is facing the problem of shortage of volunteers to help care for the victims of the deadly Ebola Virus Di...

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Human parts syndicate busted in Lagos (PICTURED)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVJZwB4VpP5l5VfKpRvCGyfVfwKa0WOthTtP8agBVI2-t_YU5s68CtcH9gmbHIeJD5sOY11agXrq1qtcCRlPioAmR6N5pE0onvoQ_sHoiKXH0f6d480JupRR_1XJGtln4Ym4Rw0LWQfq_P/s1600/unnamed.png" /></span></div> <div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div> <div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Operatives of  the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have smashed a syndicate that specialize in selling human parts, <a href="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/offered-n30000-human-skull-suspect/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Vanguard</a> reports.</span></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The 3 suspects whose names were given as Mustapha Muritala, Sunday Oluyeba and Adenike Olanrewaju, were arrested at the Ojumerin area of Sagamu, Ogun State following a tip off. Recovered from the suspects were two human skulls suspected to have been procured from a graveyard.</span><div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When interrogated, one of the suspects, 42 year old Herbalist Mustapha Murtala, said he ventured into the business two years ago following an offer of N30,000 for a human skull. </span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I am a herbalist from Sagamu, Ogun State. I was introduced to human parts business by one Sunday Oluyeba I knew through my friends, Olanipekun and Kazim, three years ago. My friends asked me to get  native birds called eyeoshi and eyeoke, and I succeeded in getting them. They later came and requested a human head with an offer of N30,000. They said they wanted to use it to prepare concoction for a pregnant woman in labour . They told me they also use human parts to prepare concoction for women who have difficulty in getting pregnant. What <a href="" name="more"></a>they do is to grind the human skull, mix it with water and give to the woman to drink. Such concoction cleanses the stomach, after which she would become pregnant. Sunday brought the human head and I paid him N15,000 for it. This is the second time I am buying a human skull from him. I do not know where he got them from.”</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recounting how he was arrested, Mustapha said </span><br /> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I was going about my herbal business when a man came and demanded human skull. As I handed the nylon where I kept it to him, some men I later discovered to be policemen swooped on me. I have never killed anyone in my life.” he said</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After his arrest, he was made to put a call across to his  partner in crime, Oluyeba, demanding a human head. Oluyeba, who was indisposed, instructed one of his herbalist friends, Baba Beji, to go for the supply. He was arrested when he got there.<br /><br />Further investigations by police led to the arrest of another suspect in Sagamu. The suspect, Juwon Olarewaju, another herbalist, reportedly fled on sighting policemen and his wife, Mrs Olarewaju was arrested instead.<br /><br />34 year old Mrs Olarewaju, said she was shocked to find out her husband was involved in such a trade. She said; </span><br /> <div> <blockquote class="tr_bq"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“I have been married to Juwon  for five years and we have two children. My husband is a herbalist but I didn’t know he was dealing in human parts. I was arrested in my house at about 2am over the weekend. I swear, I didn’t know anything about all these. I was arrested because my husband whom they came to arrest ran away. These people implicated my husband in the matter; they said my husband supplied them with a human head.” she said</span></blockquote> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police say the suspects will soon be charged to court.</span></div> </div>

Human parts syndicate busted in Lagos (PICTURED)

  Operatives of  the Special Anti Robbery Squad, SARS, Ikeja, Lagos have smashed a syndicate that specialize in selling human parts, ...

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Over 5,000 displaced as fire razes 5 houses, sawmill

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">L</b></span></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">AGOS—</b></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Fire, </span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Monday night, engulfed five buildings and a sawmill in Oko-Baba area of Ebute-Metta, Lagos, displacing over 5,000 persons.</span><br /> <div> <span style="border: 0px; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Candida BT', serif; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Fire-Razed-Cole-Street-in-E.gif" style="-webkit-transition: background-color, border-top-color; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: background-color, border-top-color; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="Fire-Razed-Cole-Street-in-E" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-460394" height="237" src="http://dvsl3w2q45hb8.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Fire-Razed-Cole-Street-in-E.gif" style="-webkit-transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow; border: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; transition: margin 0.2s linear, box-shadow;" width="412" /></a></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit;">Property worth millions of Naira were also destroyed in the inferno</span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); font-style: inherit;"><br /></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The cause of the fire, which started at about 10.30 pm and raged till the early hours of yesterday, could not be ascertained.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, no casualty was recorded but several persons reportedly sustained injuries in the resultant stampede.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It was gathered that a similar incident occurred in the sawmill and bolt-up buildings last year.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Fire men attacked</b></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vanguard</i></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> gathered that officials of the fire service, who arrived the scene to contain the fire, were attacked by some hoodlums, with one of the fire trucks smashed. The attack was said to have delayed the rescue work of the fire fighters.</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Director, Lagos State Fire Service, Mr Rasaq Fadipe, said three fire trucks were deplored to the scene when news of the incident reached them.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On his part, the South-West spokesman of the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, Ibrahim Farinloye, said: “No casualty was recorded. We could not wait to count the number of houses affected. Except residents give number of houses affected, one cannot estimate. But they were just temporary structures built with planks. The fire consumed five bungalows built with sand concrete, multiple bolt up buildings and sawmill.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When men of the fire service arrived the scene, hoodlums struggled to take control of the fire fighting, thereby endangering lives but they were resisted and they turned against the firemen.”</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">…In Somolu</b></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Farinloye also said a three-bedroom flat and a two-storey building at 14, Ayodele Bajulaye, Somolu were also consumed by fire.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LASEMA reacts</b></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Authority, LASEMA, Dr. Femi Oke-Osanyintolu, who also visited the scene, said: “The fire was put out by the combined effort of the Lagos State Fire Service, LASEMA and the Local Emergency Management Committee of the affected local government area.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LASEMA and men of the NSCDC are still on ground for assessment and enumeration exercise. Over 1,500 houses made up of shanties were razed by the inferno and also over 5,000 people displaced.  </span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">‘<span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Sawmill equipment worth millions of naira were burnt. The equipment included spindle, saw machine, band saw, circular saw and generating machine.”  </span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He appealed to the public to be careful in handling electrical appliances and learn to quickly send alert if there is an emergency.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Victims’ account</b></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When </span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vanguard</i></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> visited the scene, yesterday, some lucky victims were busy gathering their personal effects while the unlucky ones were lamenting their plights.</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Although, thousands of people were affected by the inferno but the sawmillers told </span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vanguard</i></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> they lost several equipment worth billions of Naira to the inferno.</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The sawmillers, who spoke through their vice chairman, Mr Kedus Okoye, said many of them had closed for the day’s business before the inferno.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">According to the vice chairman, “the sawmill exists about 70 years ago but some retirees among us have sublet their shops and they have converted them to residential buildings.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the residents, who gave his name as Afeez, said: “I only moved in about three months ago after a friend moved out. I paid N60,000 for one year. Now, everything is gone and I do not have any place to go.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another, a father of three, who identified himself as Donatus Mgbeje, said: “I have been living here with my wife and three children for three years and I have witnessed this type of incident twice.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“The last one occurred last year during rainny season. No one can tell what caused that of last year and this one.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Anytime it happens, we w</span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ill begin to build again because we cannot afford money to rent accommodation elsewhere. We live like every other Lagosian here, the only difference is that while others live in concrete buildings, we live in makeshift buildings.”</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But some of the residents, who spoke to </span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vanguard </i></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">on phone said the fire could have been caused by a lit candle.</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This is not the first time an inferno will occur in this place but it is usually traced to the residential areas who refuse to understand that residential homes are not built near a sawmill. We want the government to come to </span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">our aid.”</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">One of the saw-millers,a 53-year-old Chief Mone Titus, who was mostly hit by the inferno, was speechless when </span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Vanguard</i></span></span><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> visited to the area.</span></span></span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The indigene of Oyo State said: “I have been running the sawmill for the past 28 years and have invested alot. I lost a 180KV generating set, a complete sawmill and offices to the inferno.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“We need urgent steps to restore the sawmill. I have three undergraduates and many dependants, how will I feed them? This incident has thrown me back to square one.”</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Another victim, 43-year-old Jude Nnamani, said he also lost millions of naira to the inferno.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He said: “My lines were switched off throughout the night and as soon as they were on, the bad news came and I rushed to the scene to watch my source of livelihood being razed. I am finished, where else will I go?</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">To 57-year-old Mrs Anthony Umeh, the inferno has caused a lot of damage to her family.</span></span></span></div> <div align="JUSTIFY" style="border: 0px; margin-bottom: 0cm; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“My husband brought me here in the 70s but he is no longer regular here due to old age. With the present development, do you think I can feed the family? I lost saw-dusters and several engines to the inferno,” she said.</span></span></span></div> <div class="OUTBRAIN" data-browser="safari" data-dynload="" data-ob-mark="true" data-os="ipad" data-src="http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/08/5000-displaced-fire-razes-5-houses-sawmill/" id="outbrain_widget_0" obdone="true" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <div class="ob_strip_container NA" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px;"> <span class="ob_empty" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><wbr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></wbr></span><span class="ob_org_header" style="border: 0px; display: block; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div> </div> -Vanguard Newspaper</div>

Over 5,000 displaced as fire razes 5 houses, sawmill

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We Were Sent to Bomb Lagos Airport (NAMA) – Boko Haram Suspect

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Update: We Were Sent to Bomb Lagos Airport (NAMA) – Boko Haram Suspect</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8332356624703075763" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXEBCAKtrbmPHId76uFl7gFGLarCIEe3Kpo9ui3bct2Wa2PuwyjUD_2I0RhC-cZgFuk5DE-deK7etaF0aEzC3FTUCJHB2X9YlQaJEY4F2Uwgli3V3nk7GW3oU2e-K8jvYMv29cqd5l5o/s1600/180814F-NAMA-Bomber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWXEBCAKtrbmPHId76uFl7gFGLarCIEe3Kpo9ui3bct2Wa2PuwyjUD_2I0RhC-cZgFuk5DE-deK7etaF0aEzC3FTUCJHB2X9YlQaJEY4F2Uwgli3V3nk7GW3oU2e-K8jvYMv29cqd5l5o/s1600/180814F-NAMA-Bomber.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Boko Haram suspect who was arrested at National Airport Management Authority (NAMA) annex in Lagos yesterday, confessed last night that he was sent along with other Boko Haram members to Lagos to bomb various parts of the city.<br /><br />The physically challenged 22-year-old suspect who was caught with canisters around his neck, in his confession, told security operatives that his two other colleagues were assigned the task of bombing Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), as well as the densely populated Lagos Island and Apapa areas of the megacity.<br /><br />Security source, who spoke exclusively to THISDAY, said the suspect (name withheld) had confessed that he alongside several others were recruited from Niger Republic and were trained extensively before their deployment.<br /><br />He also said the plot to bomb Lagos would not be simultaneously done, a clear deviation from the planned simultaneous attacks last year March, when the sect tried to bomb various designated places across the state at the same time.<br /><br />According to him, the attempt by the physically-challenged suspect was the first attempt to bomb Lagos after the twin bomb blasts in Apapa two months ago that claimed no fewer than five persons including the suicide bomber.<br /><br />A security official, who spoke to THISDAY on the strict condition of anonymity, said the attempt would have been successful but for the inability of the explosives to detonate when they were supposed to.<br /><br />He said: “He was caught because when he tried to set off the explosives, there was a hitch. He ran back to an obscure place to check it out and fix it.<br /><br />His suspicious movement and the frustration evident on his face aroused the suspicion of security operatives attached to NAMA.”<br /><br />Also speaking, another source from the state security department said already, investigations had kicked off in full gear to round up other suspects who were said to have been deployed to wreak havoc in the state.<br /><br />The suspect was arrested at the NAMA annex facility, known as CENTREX, about 300 meters from the international terminal of the airport, opposite the airport cathedral.<br /><br />THISDAY learnt that the suspect was making frantic phone calls, and looked frustrated and restless.<br />His mannerism and slovenly conduct aroused the suspicion of security personnel who were watching him and subsequently arrested him.<br /><br /><br />He was taken to the MMIA police station at Beesam junction.<br /><br />Shortly after his arrest, the police had initially pleaded for more time to undertake the investigation to confirm the identity and mission of the suspect.<br /><br />The police also said that the suspected explosive device found on the suspect would be examined and confirmed later, adding that it would be hasty to describe it as an explosive.<br />A police officer, however, described the device found on the suspect as locally made explosives.<br /><br />Reacting to the incident, the General Manager, Public Affairs of NAMA, Supo Atobatele, said the suspect was within the vicinity of the airport making phone calls along the Airport Road when the agency’s security personnel accosted him.<br /><br />He said his incoherent explanation aroused further suspicion, especially with the suspicious looking canisters on his person.<br /><br />“The attention of NAMA has been drawn to insinuations that a suspected suicide bomber was arrested at one of the agency’s facilities at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, on Monday.<br /><br />“The basic truth however is that the said suspect was on the ground making phone calls along the Airport Road close to CENTREX, an annex office of NAMA when the agency’s security personnel accosted him.<br /><br />“His incoherent explanation exposed him to the security personnel who later found on him some devices suspected to be explosives. He was subsequently handed over to the Airport Police Command for further investigation.<br /><br />“The Managing Director, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, in reaction, commended the security personnel for their vigilance and prompt arrest of the suspect,” Atobatele said in a statement.<br /><br />The suspect who wore brown shorts and a white T-shirt was prevented from speaking to reporters about his mission to the airport.<br /><br />But another policeman told THISDAY that the suspect was not willing to talk initially, having concealed his age but later said that his father was from Kano while his mother was from Cameroun and that he lived in Nasarawa quarters in Kano.<br /><br />Yet, another senior security official with one of the aviation agencies told THISDAY that enquiries had revealed that the suspect was from Niger Republic, arrived Lagos on Sunday and was asking people for the location of the airport before he was arrested.<br /><br />The official alleged that the suspect was on a mission and was sent by somebody, dismissing the initial statement from the police that he was a lunatic.<br /><br />“I don’t think that the suspect is a lunatic. If the police say that he is a lunatic let them prove that he is one.<br /><br />“From my own assessment, the suspect was on a mission; he was sent by somebody, but the police have not given us more information. I went to see him and the young man spoke both in English and in Hausa. The police said they should be given time to investigate the suspected devices, so let me give them time,” the official said.<br /><br />Meanwhile, suspected Boko Haram gunmen have killed 10 people who had fled their homes to avoid the incessant attacks by the insurgents, reported AFP yesterday.<br /><br />The villagers who were running from death inadvertently ran into death when they encountered the insurgents in a nearby village in Borno State.<br /><br />Like drunken murderers, the insurgents opened fire on them killing all 10, witnesses said yesterday.<br /><br />Residents of Krenuwa village had fled to nearby communities after Boko Haram members raided their community last month killing seven people.<br /><br />The people were further terrified when they saw the extremists raze a military camp, police station and several homes.<br /><br />About a dozen militants stormed the villages of Durwa and Maforo in the Marte district on Sunday, where some of the villagers were seeking refuge.<br /><br />“They came on motorcycles and gathered people before singling out their victims who moved in from Krenuwa after it was attacked”, said Usman Ari, a Durwa resident.<br /><br />“They shot six of them dead and slaughtered four,” said Ari, who fled to the Borno State capital, Maiduguri, some 100 kilometres away after the attack on the community.<br /><br />After the attack in Durwa, the suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed nearby Maforo and killed four, said Hassan Goni, another Durwa resident, who also fled to Maiduguri.<br /><br />“We are afraid they are going to come back for more attacks which is why we left,” he added.<br /><br />After the attack on Krenuwa village, a counter-offensive by soldiers killed five insurgents and captured another five.<br /><br />Krenuwa resident, Abba Kolomi, said Boko Haram had also killed six people from the village who sought refuge across the border in Chad.<br /><br />The Marte district was one of the areas where Boko Haram chased out the government last year, forcing President Goodluck Jonathan to declare a state of emergency in the region and a military offensive to crush the uprising.<br /><br />Although a scorched-earth military response reclaimed the territory, deadly Boko Haram raids on towns and villages in the area have continued unabated.<br /><br />Culled from <a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/boko-haram-suspect-we-were-sent-to-bomb-lagos-airport/186724/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Thisday</a></span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> </div> </div>

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Doctors, students, protest mass sack of resident doctors

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today: Doctors, students, protest mass sack of resident doctors</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8785821241119715139" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 616px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfqcIWaTuTrW7tCaLDT5otsiO6jwpUk1k4GhWucKWkNO00F8cgaf0NSolb9BYdH3nPqm5cUm0nEHn2PyCRQgE5fqQ2aXaisyAfPBNDVQsnRRp2s-xh45T0WflSghXSQ0wQN5JrSJl01DQ/s1600/2.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfqcIWaTuTrW7tCaLDT5otsiO6jwpUk1k4GhWucKWkNO00F8cgaf0NSolb9BYdH3nPqm5cUm0nEHn2PyCRQgE5fqQ2aXaisyAfPBNDVQsnRRp2s-xh45T0WflSghXSQ0wQN5JrSJl01DQ/s1600/2.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(153, 0, 0); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Medical doctors, students, consultants converged at the Lagos University Teaching hospital, (LUTH), Idi Araba, today to protest the recent sack of 16,000 resident doctors by the Federal Government. The protest was led by the Chairman of the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Dr. Tope Ojo.<br /><br />The doctors said their strike was never about an increase in their salary, that all they were fighting for was for better structures and equipment in hospitals across the country. 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Doctors, students, protest mass sack of resident doctors

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BREAKING NEWS: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested With Bomb At Nigerian Airspace Agency Office

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <h1 style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; color: black; font-size: small; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thetrentonline.com/breaking-news-boko-haram-suspect-arrested-bomb-nigerian-airspace-agency-office-photo/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=breaking-news-boko-haram-suspect-arrested-bomb-nigerian-airspace-agency-office-photo" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_new">BREAKING NEWS: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested With Bomb At Nigerian Airspace Agency Office (PHOTO)</a></span></h1> <img alt="BREAKING NEWS: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested With Bomb At Nigerian Airspace Agency Office (PHOTO)" class="aligncenter full-media nomargin" scale="0" src="http://thetrentonlinecom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Masked-Police-In-Borno-The-Trent-e1394877595207-795x528.jpg" style="border: none; clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" title="BREAKING NEWS: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested With Bomb At Nigerian Airspace Agency Office (PHOTO)" /><br /> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 5px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This picture taken shows Nigerian police part of the joint forces in Borno state posing prior to a patrol in Maiduguri. (Photo Credit: AFP PHOTO / Quentin Lebouche</span></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-bottom: 10px !important; padding: 5px 0px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There was an attempt by a suspected member of boko haram to bomb the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency, NAMA office in Lagos, ThisDay</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a href="http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/breaking-news-police-arrest-boko-haram-suspect-at-nama-office/186683/" style="outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reports</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">.</span></div> <div class="pf-content"> <div style="margin-bottom: 15px;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The suspect was arrested just few minutes ago and the explosives with him recovered.</span></div> <div class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_62526" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; max-width: 98% !important; overflow: hidden; text-align: center; width: 410px;"> <div style="text-align: left;"> <a href="http://thetrentonlinecom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Suspect-at-NAMA1.jpg" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img alt="The suspect and the alleged manual timer (Photo Credit: ThisDay)" class="size-full wp-image-62526" height="231" scale="0" src="http://thetrentonlinecom.c.presscdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Suspect-at-NAMA1.jpg" style="border: none; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-top: 7px; padding: 0px 0px 3px 4px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The suspect and the alleged manual timer (Photo Credit: ThisDay)</span></div> <div class="wp-caption-text" style="margin-bottom: 10px !important; margin-top: 7px; padding: 0px 0px 3px 4px; text-align: left;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He is currently in police custody.</span></div> </div> <div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> </div>

BREAKING NEWS: Boko Haram Suspect Arrested With Bomb At Nigerian Airspace Agency Office

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Nigeria: New look Lagos-Ibadan Highway and Kubwa, Abuja Road

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"> <h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Nigeria: Lagos-Ibadan Rd and Kubwa-Abuja Rd newest looks [photos]</span></span></h3> <div class="post-header" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"> <div class="post-header-line-1"> </div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5482421193635512280" itemprop="description articleBody" style="position: relative; width: 670px;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccTPbld3PmKBrVgJY8G-yObaajq2Hr9AX6zM9enY_cINRpAGPEC3tDS1jwPbxBJEd8DTpi1YODRT7Mg_szAE7fJGRPrPH4Q55odJhNf-V_a1LUW9M4LSxAAlrBNRmaxdABG4HqjjXP8g/s1600/BvTiIw2CIAMYRw1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiccTPbld3PmKBrVgJY8G-yObaajq2Hr9AX6zM9enY_cINRpAGPEC3tDS1jwPbxBJEd8DTpi1YODRT7Mg_szAE7fJGRPrPH4Q55odJhNf-V_a1LUW9M4LSxAAlrBNRmaxdABG4HqjjXP8g/s1600/BvTiIw2CIAMYRw1.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                                                              <i>           Lag-Ibadan Rd</i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_c736z4I_so3qtS0xcdqwpBSymSG-kfCblC-hX71TF3P05EbGOlm7UhKrRlX-eWaWyJrj1wdTckrA1NfZWDURbQ2ggFIcAUXQLWCpnwbkyxNx5HntLQoRyWgxyVPR9Lj8WPcOOIUGCI0/s1600/Picture2.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_c736z4I_so3qtS0xcdqwpBSymSG-kfCblC-hX71TF3P05EbGOlm7UhKrRlX-eWaWyJrj1wdTckrA1NfZWDURbQ2ggFIcAUXQLWCpnwbkyxNx5HntLQoRyWgxyVPR9Lj8WPcOOIUGCI0/s1600/Picture2.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Following the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan's administration with the level of works done so far you will agree me that the president has tried despite the challenges the country is facing. Few are the photos you can see on this site which were shared by the Special Assistant to President Jonathan on New Media, Reno Omokri, on his twitter account. The roads are;  the Kubwa-Abuja Rd to a 10 lane SuperHighway and  Lag-Ibadan Rd to a modern highway and others yet to be achieved. See the Kubwa-Abuja Rd below</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_cU0ywwNxRdIDlW9S5HTZ7un8JDKiWxbMiP05pBQJ2w2e1XnrRWOgX3esPyzrWlk1GcyOIjgw3z2bIpRGNCrBYGWqTu-h4M9HRiyRkkjwMBRGKCs2cnzNCan8H8U2xpxV3p0cLYYEWU/s1600/BvQD3KBIQAEx1Wb.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_cU0ywwNxRdIDlW9S5HTZ7un8JDKiWxbMiP05pBQJ2w2e1XnrRWOgX3esPyzrWlk1GcyOIjgw3z2bIpRGNCrBYGWqTu-h4M9HRiyRkkjwMBRGKCs2cnzNCan8H8U2xpxV3p0cLYYEWU/s1600/BvQD3KBIQAEx1Wb.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="640" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">                                                                 <i>    Kubwa-Abuja Rd</i></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0QkLQ98ebkpcsSVpB-_FcL5Wcw3-kfKBjZW7wyYPbbXoU5ec4xghU3U-1lvbgFn-pmeO4F6DyuhFjVkMEATGL9PA4BY2r1VRUuz75LLTD3QbDwb7Ijx0mPYqe-q5jsVoFrZhq507OAao/s1600/Picture1.png" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="337" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0QkLQ98ebkpcsSVpB-_FcL5Wcw3-kfKBjZW7wyYPbbXoU5ec4xghU3U-1lvbgFn-pmeO4F6DyuhFjVkMEATGL9PA4BY2r1VRUuz75LLTD3QbDwb7Ijx0mPYqe-q5jsVoFrZhq507OAao/s1600/Picture1.png" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="400" /></span></a></div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br />Kudos and Long live FRN!</span><div style="clear: both;"> </div> </div> <div class="post-footer" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(102, 0, 0); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; margin: 20px -2px 0px; padding: 5px 10px;"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="post-share-buttons goog-inline-block" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; position: relative; vertical-align: middle;"> <div class="goog-inline-block dummy-container" style="display: inline-block; padding-left: 0.3em; position: relative; vertical-align: top;"> <div id="___plusone_0" style="border-style: none; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"> <iframe data-gapiattached="true" frameborder="0" hspace="0" id="I0_1408353512818" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="I0_1408353512818" scrolling="no" src="https://apis.google.com/u/0/se/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&source=blogger%3Ablog%3Aplusone&size=medium&width=300&annotation=inline&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fekpoesitonse.blogspot.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fekpoesitonse.blogspot.com%2F2014%2F08%2Fnigeria-lagos-ibadan-rd-and-kubwa-abuja.html&gsrc=3p&ic=1&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en.Y7yo-hE6f2w.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DAQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Ft%3Dzcms%2Frs%3DAItRSTOCCewNInyW1jNvLdupkCgdxhOtiQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh&id=I0_1408353512818&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fekpoesitonse.blogspot.com&pfname=&rpctoken=25026844" style="border-style: none; height: 20px; left: 0px; margin: 0px; position: static; top: 0px; visibility: visible; width: 300px;" tabindex="0" title="+1" vspace="0" width="100%"></iframe></div> </div> </div> </span></div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"> <span class="post-labels" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"></span></div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"> <span class="post-location" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"></span></div> </div> </div> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="cmt_iframe_holder" data-href="http://ekpoesitonse.blogspot.com/2014/08/nigeria-lagos-ibadan-rd-and-kubwa-abuja.html" data-viewtype="FILTERED_POSTMOD" dir="rtl" id="gpluscomments" style="border-style: none; display: inline-block; float: none; height: 406px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: right; vertical-align: baseline; width: 671px;"> </div> </span></div>

Nigeria: New look Lagos-Ibadan Highway and Kubwa, Abuja Road

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