BREAKING NEWS (UPDATE): Many Feared Dead As Gunmen Storm Abuja (PHOTOS, VIEWER DISCRETION)

A press release signed by the spokesperson of the State Security Service, Marilyn Ogar following shootings at the Apo Legislative Quarters has said,"in the early hours of today 20th September, 2013, about 0030 hours, a combined security team went for an operation behind the Apo legislative quarters." 

"The operation was sequel to information obtained from two (2) Boko Haram elements Kamal ABDULLAHI and Mohammed ADAMU, who had earlier been arrested for terrorist activities. They led the security team to uncompleted buildings where arms were purported to have been buried underground."

Ogar said, "No sooner had the team commenced digging for the arms, than they came under heavy gunfire attack by other Boko Haram elements within the area, which prompted immediate response from the security team. As a result, some persons were injured and twelve (12) others have been arrested in connection with the incident, and are making useful statements."

According to the release, "Normalcy has returned to the area. Members of the public are advised to go about their normal businesses, as appropriate security measures have been placed to ensure the safety of citizens in the FCT.

"We want to reiterate the need for all Nigerians to be vigilant of their immediate environment and promptly report suspicious activities to security agencies. Our National security must remain the collective responsibility of all Nigerians," she added.

It was reported earlier that unknown gunmen dressed in military clothes, this morning, Friday September 20, stormed an uncompleted building at Legislator’s Quarters in Apo, Abuja, killing eight people.

DSP Altine Daniel, the police public relations officer in Abuja has confirmed the incident, saying that investigation is ongoing.

The incident was said to have occurred around 3:00am in an uncompleted building owned by an army general but was occupied illegally by truck pushers, scavengers and water vendors popularly known as 'mai ruwa.'

According to one eyewitness "those people living inside the building had been told to vacate the building on the orders of the Army General who owned the house but they refused to leave. It was unfortunate however, that some men in army uniform came in around midnight and opened fire on these innocent people.

Another eyewitness also said "I personally  counted eight dead bodies this morning in the pool of their blood, I saw bullets everywhere in the building ."

 

Some identity cards of the alleged "soldiers" (gunmen) were said to have been found at the scene.

Meanwhile the scene of the incident has been condoned off  by the men of State Security Service (SSS), soldiers and police.

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Agagu To Be Buried Beside Father’s Grave

The late former  governor of Ondo State,  Dr Olusegun Agagu,  is to be buried beside his father’s grave, his Kuyeju family in  Lameha Quarters, Iju-Odo, has said.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the late governor,  who was  65,   slumped and died on Sept. 13 at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.

NAN also reports that the Ondo State Government has officially announced that Agagu would be buried on Oct. 4 at Iju Odo, Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state.

Chief  Samuel Akinrogunde, a member of the Kuyeju family, told NAN on Friday in Iju Odo that Agagu had ordered that he should be buried beside his father’s grave at St. Paul’s Anglican Church cemetery.

``Before he died, he had  ordered that he should be buried beside his father, late Chief Olorunfemi Agagu, who died in March 1973 and was buried at St. Paul’s Anglican Church,’’ he said.

Akinrogunde also thanked the state government for making the burial of the late former governor an official responsibility of the present administration.

He added that the family would begin early preparations for the Oct. 4 burial, adding that  necessary  arrangements would be made  to forestall any hitch.

``Since the state government has announced Oct. 4 as the official burial date for Agagu, we will put our house in order to ensure a befitting burial for our son,’’ he said.

Akinrogunde,  who also heads the family burial committee, said the body  would collaborate with the government’s committee to ensure a befitting burial for the late politician. (NAN)

Five More Governors To Join Baraje’s New PDP

President Goodluck Jonathan and his Bamanga Tukur-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party may be heading for further isolation, as another five incumbent governors of the party may soon dump them for the Abubakar Baraje faction, otherwise known as New PDP (nPDP).

The five governors, who are drawn from two geo-political zones in the North and South, are said to be upset by alleged continuous manipulations in the party by the Presidency and the chairman, thereby alienating them from the mainstream.

Besides, Vanguard learnt that the affected governors maintained that there was no justification to support Jonathan’s second term bid when majority of their natives were opposed to the move.

The governors said they were convinced that the so-called peace moves will not produce any meaningful results, as they were merely stage-managed to buy time for Jonathan to secure a second term in office.

One of the governors told Vanguard that they were just waiting for the appropriate moment to defect to the nPDP with a view to actualising their political dreams.

Asked to state what the grievances of the defecting governors were, the governor said the decision was to save them from undue manipulation being orchestrated by the Presidency and the PDP leadership to give a second term chance to the President.

“What will happen is that very soon some of the PDP governors, who are watching the rest of us from the sidelines, will join and declare their support for us.

“It is because of the likely overwhelming support, which the Tukur group and the Presidency know we enjoy that they keep on talking about peace and reconciliation when in reality they are not ready for an early resolution of the crisis rocking the party.”

It was learnt that the grouse of the five governors who are jumping ship might not be unconnected with the fear that most of them could be dumped and made to face severe consequences if Jonathan won a second term.

They are said to have given examples of those who were given solid assurances by the Presidency to work with him but were jettisoned after he won the election in 2011.

“What most Nigerians do not know is that we suffered a lot to make Jonathan President and today he is using people who did not know how we enthroned him, to harass and intimidate some of us,” a governor from one of the northern states lamented.

“Look at the way the President is using state apparatus to fight the Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi, for instance, who risked his life and some of his supporters to give him one of the highest votes in the last election.

“What justification does the President have in persecuting the seven governors, who went out of their way to mobilise voters in their states to elect him,” a governor asked.

It was gathered that the five governors were likely to move out of  mainstream PDP anytime they consider most suitable, apparently to send further shock waves to the leadership that they were unhappy with the system.

FG, ASUU STRIKE NEW DEAL

FG, ASUU STRIKE NEW DEAL

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) struck a new deal last night.

This happened at a three-hour close-door meeting at the State House in Abuja between Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the leadership of the union.
Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, ASUU President Nasir Isa Fagge said the union had got a message from the government and would meet its members “and get back to the government”.
Fagge, however, refused to dis-close the details of the new “message”.
On whether there is a possibility of calling off the strike soon, he said “as a good messenger”, he would only report back to “the larger ASUU”.
Also speaking, Supervising Minister of Education Nyesom Wike, who was at the meeting, assured that the strike would soon end as the government was ready to resolve all the issues that led to the industrial action.
Also at the meeting were the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Com-mission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, as well as Vice Chancellor of the Bayero University Kano, Professor Abdulrasheed Abubakar, and his counterparts Isaac Adewole of the University of Ibadan and Hamisu Muhammed of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
Former ASUU presidents Dr Dipo Fasina and Dr Abdullahi Sule-Kano were also in attendance
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FG, ASUU STRIKE NEW DEAL

FG, ASUU STRIKE NEW DEAL

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) struck a new deal last night.

This happened at a three-hour close-door meeting at the State House in Abuja between Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the leadership of the union.
Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, ASUU President Nasir Isa Fagge said the union had got a message from the government and would meet its members “and get back to the government”.
Fagge, however, refused to dis-close the details of the new “message”.
On whether there is a possibility of calling off the strike soon, he said “as a good messenger”, he would only report back to “the larger ASUU”.
Also speaking, Supervising Minister of Education Nyesom Wike, who was at the meeting, assured that the strike would soon end as the government was ready to resolve all the issues that led to the industrial action.
Also at the meeting were the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Com-mission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, as well as Vice Chancellor of the Bayero University Kano, Professor Abdulrasheed Abubakar, and his counterparts Isaac Adewole of the University of Ibadan and Hamisu Muhammed of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
Former ASUU presidents Dr Dipo Fasina and Dr Abdullahi Sule-Kano were also in attendance
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4 Signs That You Are A Sex Addict

So you enjoy sex a great deal and perhaps spend most of your time thinking about doing the dirty, does this make you an addict?

Here are 4 signs you might be a sex addict and should seek help.

1. Obsession: The person is consumed by thoughts of sexual activity. That doesn't mean just thinking about sex. It means they cannot focus on anything else. They are obsessed with what they are going do next, when it will happen, how they're going to hide it, etc.

2. Compulsivity: They completely lack control over their compulsion to have sex. They may have told themselves over and over again that they aren't going to do it anymore. They really want to stop, but they are unable to.

3. They build up tolerance. It's just like any other addiction in this way. Like alcohol, at first you only need one drink to get affected. As time goes by you need more and more drinks. With sex addiction, maybe sneaking a look at porn works at first. Then it doesn't do it for you anymore. You might go online after your partner goes to bed. Then you go online at work, then on the phone on the freeway, and then it escalates to masturbating in your car. You have to increase the frequency, intensity and/or risk in order to get that desired effect.

4. They continue the behavior despite the consequences. Even if their spouse threatens to leave them, they're threatened to be fired or they even get arrested, they keep doing it. They need the rush--no matter what price they have to pay

Nigeria delay bonus reform

Nigeria delay bonus reform

Nigeria delay bonus reform

The release of the new code of conduct for Nigerian players has been delayed to avoid causing distractions during the ongoing World Cup qualification process.

The issue of bonus payments threatened to derail the Super Eagles' participation in the Confederations Cup in June as the players were on the verge of boycotting the tournament after the Nigeria Football Federation reduced the bonuses on offer.

A code of conduct has been drafted with the intention of preventing a repeat of that fiasco, but with Stephen Keshi's side still involved in the qualifying process, Nigeria's sports minister Bolaji Abdullahi has delayed the release to let the team focus on the task at hand.

Abdullahi explained that the report will be introduced once the national team have completed their final two-legged qualifying encounter against Ethiopia in November.

"The panel's report is very strategic and as soon as we are done with the World Cup qualifying matches, we will implement the report fully," he said.

"We don't want to introduce the report now so that it does not distract us from the work we have at hand now.

"We will continue to manage it. It is after the World Cup qualifiers that we plan to put in place the structures that can provide the final solution to it."