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Flags To Fly At Half-Staff For Owo Church Massacre Victims

Flags To Fly At Half-Staff For Owo Church Massacre Victims

June 6, 2022 11:34 am

In response to the recent Church massacre in Ondo State and in a show of solidarity to the victims, the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has directed that flags should be flown at half-staff in all public buildings, facilities, and official residences for seven days.

This, he said, is in honour of the victims of the Owo terror attack on Sunday.

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Akeredolu’s Chief Press Secretary, Richard Olatunde announced this on Monday in Akure.

”In honour of the victims of this unfortunate attack, I hereby direct that all flags be flown

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I Can Estimate Value Of Victims From Far – Evans

January 11, 2020 5:19 pm

Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike, alias Evans has said he could estimate the financial value of his victims from a short distance.

Evans said this in a video played during his trial in an Ikeja High Court on Friday during the cross-examination of the Investigating Police Officer (IPO) Insp. Idowu Haruna by Mr Emmanuel Ochai, the defence counsel to Victor Aduba, one of Evans’ co-defendants.

The alleged kidnap kingpin, in the video, was sitting on a sofa and confessing to Haruna about various kidnappings he masterminded.

Evans gave the details of his alleged victims who mostly paid ransoms in …

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Kaduna Explosion: DPR Recovers More Bodies Of 3 Victims

January 11, 2020 5:31 am
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) on Friday said a combined team of DPR, KEPA and other agencies have recovered mutilated bodies of three more victims of the Jan. 4 Kaduna gas explosion.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the recovery of the three bodies brings to eight the number of victims killed by the gas explosion.

The North West Zonal Controller, DPR, Isa Tafida made the disclosure during a condolence visit to the family of the late Chairman of Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission, Prof. Simon Mallam.

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Tafida represented

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B/Haram: Kidnapped Victims Speak From Captivity [VIDEO]

December 16, 2019 2:18 pm

A college lecturer and 10 other persons who were recently kidnapped by Boko Haram have called on President Muhammadu Buhari’s government to come to their rescue.

This is coming barely 24hours after the execution of four aid workers by Boko Haram.

The captives include Christians and Muslims who were abducted along the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway.

In a short video uploaded by Ahmed Salkida, a journalist known to have access to Boko Haram leadership, one of the abductees, Bitrus Bwala, who identified himself as a principal lecturer at the College of Education Gashua, in Yobe State said they witnessed the recent killing …

Flood: NEMA Warns Anambra Residents To Relocate

FG Donates Relief Materials To Flood Victims In Kebbi

December 10, 2019 10:03 am

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has donated relief materials to over 351 victims of 2019 flood disaster in three councils of Kebbi.
Director-General of the Agency, Alhaji Mustapha Maihaja, who was represented by Head of NEMA, Sokoto Operations Office, Dr. Kofoworola Soleye, distributed the relief materials in Yauri Local Government Area, yesterday.
Soleye said the materials were given to alleviate the sufferings faced by flood victims in the affected local government areas.
“We know that it will not be enough to take care of all what you lost, but just for you to know that the federal government is …

Microfinance Owner Defrauds 108 Victims – EFCC

December 6, 2019 11:48 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal office has paraded one Aisha Kabo, for allegedly defrauded members of the public through an illegal microfinance bank.

The Zonal Head of the EFCC, Mr Abdullahi Lawal, who addressed journalists in his office on Friday said the suspect had defrauded no fewer than 108 victims within 24 hours of her operation in the state.

According to him, “we got a report from concerned Nigerians that someone was operating an illegal microfinance bank along Tamaje road, Sokoto, on 4th of December.

“We set up our team and move to the scene immediately, …

Earthquake

Albanians Hold Mass Funeral For Earthquake Victims

November 29, 2019 11:32 am

Albanian families buried their loved ones on Friday and the country mourned the 49 people known to have died in this week’s earthquake, as officials grapple with the destruction left in its wake.

Entire families were crushed by their homes when the 6.4 magnitude earthquake — the most deadly and devastating in decades — jolted the Balkan country before dawn on Tuesday.

In the town of Thumane, where numerous buildings collapsed, loved ones wept before the six wooden coffins of the Cara family and three more belonging to the Greku family.

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Pope To Comfort Victims Of Japan’s 2011 ‘Triple Disaster’

November 24, 2019 4:52 pm

Pope Francis will meet survivors of Japan’s 2011 “triple disaster” — earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear meltdown — on the penultimate day of his long-cherished trip to Japan Monday.

After an emotional day comforting survivors of atomic bombs in Nagasaki and Hiroshima — where the pontiff attacked the “crime” of using nuclear power as a weapon — Francis will meet those still affected by the 2011 tragedy that killed nearly 16,000.

At 2:46 pm (0546 GMT) on March 11 that year, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific seabed just 130 kilometres (80 miles) from Japan’s northeastern coastline, unleashing a

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Obiano Gives Over ‎₦100m To Onitsha Tanker Fire Victims

November 20, 2019 5:45 pm
Governor Willie Obiano of Anambra State has disbursed over ‎₦100m to the victims of the Onitsha Ochanja market fuel tanker inferno that happened on Wednesday October 16, 2019.
Obiano who disbursed the cheque at governor’s lodge Awka said that six people lost their lives, 10 people injured while about 763 people lost their wares, shops and plazas to the fire.
According to the governor six deceased families got the sum of ‎₦1m each, 10 injured persons with broken legs got the sum of ‎₦500, 000 while other victims got the sum of ‎₦100, 000 each.
He said the money was
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Roma Holocaust: Amid Rising Hate, Victims Remembered

October 31, 2019 7:05 am

Margarethe Kraus was just a teenager in 1943 when she was deported from her home in Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz.

While imprisoned in the concentration camp, she endured extreme maltreatment and was subject to medical experiments.

She survived the Holocaust. Her parents did not.

They were among the 250,000 to 500,000 Roma and Sinti people – between 25 and 50 percent of the minority’s entire population in Europe at the time – murdered by Nazis and their collaborators during the second world war. 

Kraus’s story features in a new exhibition at London’s Wiener Holocaust Library.

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Anambra Govt To Compensate Onitsha Fire Victims In December

Anambra Govt To Compensate Onitsha Fire Victims In December

October 28, 2019 12:27 am

Anambra State government has assured Onitsha fire victims that they would be compensated for their losses before Christmas.

Deputy Governor, Dr. Nkem Okeke, who gave the deadline expressed optimism that by  December, Onitsha Fire Panel of Inquiry handling the compilation and verification of affected persons would have completed their job.

“Government has promised to procure more fire trucks, sink boreholes that will supply water, construct access roads, in order to combat mishaps in markets.

“As a state, we will continue to make life better,” Okeke assured.

The deputy governor said the committee would harmonise list of shops and affected persons, …

Anambra Govt To Compensate Onitsha Fire Victims In December

Onitsha Fire Victims Cry That No Donation Has Come To Them

October 24, 2019 6:10 am

Victims and landlords of last week’s fire disaster in Onitsha, Anambra State, have cried out that they have not received any money or donation from many Nigerians who visited the scene to commiserate with them.

The victims who disclosed this when they stormed the office of Chairman of Onitsha South Local Government Area Mr. Emeka Asanya in protest, saying they only got a cheque of ₦1m and nothing more from the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige who visited the scene last week Saturday.

The spokespersons of the victims Mr. Anthony, Chinedu Okonkwo, and Chief Uchenna Udaegbe who …

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