Justice Oputa dies at goes home!

News reaching Roving Informant reveals that Former Judge of the Supreme Court and Chairman - Oputa Panel, Justice Chukwudifu Oputa passed on Sunday afternoon at the age of 96.

Charlyboy’s daughter, Yvonne Oputa who confirmed the sad news to some journalists in a highly emotional laden voice reportedly said, ”papa is gone. He left us this afternoon.”  

The Oputa family also issued an official statement regarding the death of the former jurist. 

In a statement issued on Sunday on behalf  of the family and signed by the deceased son Charles Oputa (Charlyboy), the family announced that, ”The Family of Justice Chukwudifu Oputa wishes to announce the passing to glory of the eminent jurist and a retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Nigeria at the age of 96″. 

He passed on peacefully on Sunday afternoon, 4th May 2014, after recovering from a brief illness.

Funeral announcements to be released by the family.

19-year-old suicide bomber arrested in Yobe!

According to reports, a deadly attack on the A Division Police Station has been averted by the Police in Yobe state at the central roundabout in Damaturu, the state capital.

Information allegedly given by the State Police Commissioner Sanusi Rufai, revealed that  a 19-year-old alleged suicide bomber identified as Abubakar Umar was caught while trying to park a  Blue Chevrolet pick-up van in the early hours of Sunday, which he drove in front of the station in a suspicious manner.

“The vigilant policemen on duty immediately noticed his suspicious movement and fired some warning shots when the suicide bomber ran on the sandbags in front of the police station and he was arrested.

“After serious interrogation by the police, Abubakar Umar confessed that he is a Boko Haram and his mission to Damaturu was to come and bomb the police station and kill as many policemen as he can,” Rufai stated.

CP Rufai also informed that “the vehicle was carrying animal dung apparently as a decoy of concealing the explosives from prowling eyes of security agents”.

Speaking on the items recovered in the botched attack, CP Sanusi said: “we discovered five constructed gas cylinders with explosive improvised devices(EIDs), 20 liters of AGO(diseal), 10 liters of PMS(petrol), one fire extinguisher, 5 9.5 battery chargers and a wall clock in the car”.

He said the Police Bomb Squad condoned off the place and effectively diffused all the bombs.

The army also confirmed the failed attack.

Director of Defence Information Major General Chris Olukolade in a statement explained that an attempt was made to bomb the police station but was foiled by the police.

“An attack by suicide bombers operating in a pick up vehicle laden with IEDs was this morning foiled in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital. The target of the attack was the A Divison Police Station situated by the main round about in the heart of the town. The attempt was however foiled as culprit was arrested by the police personale on duty…

“A total of 6 already constructed turbines containers loaded with explosives as well as 20 liters of petrol and 11 bags of bean chaff have been recovered from the scene. The police anti bomb squad has safely detonated the explosives”, the statement said.

CNN's Jim Clancy vs Doyin Okupe on chibok missing girls!

CNN’s correspondent and anchor international affairs, Jim Clancy today had somethings to say about the #BringBackOurGirls campaign on Twitter.

The #BringBackOurGirls campaign in a few days gained global attention sparking widespread outcry from the international community

With Clancy tweeting about his concern over hundreds of abducted girls, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe responded accusing the Cable News Network of passing a editorial judgement without “hearing the view of the Nigerian Government.”

Read the tweets below:

When things happen in the United States and more advanced countries, the President or authorities that matters immediately go public and give a media brief..... in Naija, we have same public office holders withholding information, and when they choose to give, they pick some preferred  media orgs and send private messages on public matters. 

This is a very public issue that concerns all, it also bothers on life, so what ever the F.G has to say should be made public, no hording of information here please. 

If indeed you are making efforts, then let it be made known. 

Names Of Kidnapped Chibok Schoolgirls released!

Names of the schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram gunmen from their dormitories on 15 April, 2014 have been released by The Christian Association of Nigeria.

According to source, the list released by Evangelist Matthew Owojaiye, President/Founder of Old Time Revival Hour, Kaduna and immediate past Chairman of Northern States Christian and Elders Forum (NOCSEF), an affiliate of CAN, contained 180 names, contrary to reports by Borno Police Command that 276 girls were initially abducted and that 223 remain missing.

In the statement, Owojaiye urged prayers for the girls to be set free and lamented that the “daughters of Zion have been taken captive, to be treated as slaves and sold into marriage to unclean people. Abomination has been committed.​ Raise lamentation to High Heavens. What a shame on the Church of the Living God.”

“Every Christian home must raise a lamentation to heaven daily. Let God arise and defend his Name, Honour and Majesty. Let a 15 minutes cry to heaven be done in every church every time they gather. Oh God, Rend the Heavens and come down! Why should the people say where is our God?

Owojaiye’s statement also contained a demand for compensation.

“We make the following demands of the Federal Government whose duty it was to protect the innocent girls: A N50 million damages as trauma compensation to each girl.Arrangement should be made to take each of the girls to an overseas university on government scholarship by September 2014. Preparation for that must start now!
SS1 and SS2 girls in that school must be transferred to schools of their choice at a cost to be borne by the government. How can any girl feel safe in this kind of school where she lives in perpetual fear of attack?”

Names of abducted girls:

1 Deborah ​Abge Chrstian
2. Awa ​Abge
3. Hauwa ​Yirma
4. Asabe ​Manu
5. Mwa ​Malam Pogu
6. Patiant ​Dzakwa
7. Saraya ​Mal. Stover
8. Mary ​Dauda
9. Gloria ​Mainta
10.Hanatu ​Ishaku
11. Gloria ​Dama
12. Tabitha ​Pogu
13. Maifa ​Dama
14. Ruth ​Kollo
15. Esther ​Usman
16 Awa ​James
17 Anthonia Yahonna
18 Kume ​Mutah
19 Aisha ​Ezekial
20 Nguba ​Buba
21 Kwanta ​Simon
22 Kummai ​Aboku
23 Esther ​Markus
24 Hana ​Stephen
25. Rifkatu ​Amos
26 Rebecca ​Mallum
27.Blessing ​Abana
28. Ladi ​Wadai
29. Tabitha ​Hyelampa
30 Ruth ​Ngladar
31 Safiya ​Abdu .
32 Na’omi ​Yahonna.
33 Solomi ​Titus .
34Rhoda ​John
35 Rebecca ​Kabu
36. Christy ​Yahi
37. Rebecca ​Luka
38. Laraba ​John
39 Saratu ​Markus
40. Mary ​Usman
41 Debora ​Yahonna
42.Naomi ​Zakaria
43 Hanatu ​Musa
44. Hauwa ​Tella
45.Juliana ​Yakubu
46. Suzana ​Yakubu
47.Saraya ​Paul
48. Jummai ​Paul
49. Mary ​Sule
50. Jummai ​John
51.Yanke ​Shittima
52. Muli ​Waligam
53. Fatima ​Tabji
54. Eli ​Joseph
55.Saratu ​Emmanuel
56. Deborah Peter
57.Rahila ​Bitrus
58. Luggwa ​Sanda
59. Kauna ​Lalai
60. Lydia ​Emmar
61.Laraba ​Maman
62.Hauwa ​Isuwa
63. Confort ​Habila
64. Hauwa ​Abdu
65. Hauwa ​Balti
66.Yana ​Joshua
67.Laraba ​Paul
68.Saraya ​Amos
69. Glory ​Yaga
70. Na’omi ​Bitrus
71. Godiya ​Bitrus
72. Awa ​Bitrus
73. Na’omi ​Luka
74. Maryamu Lawan
75. Tabitha ​Silas
76. Mary ​Yahona
77. Ladi ​Joel
78. Rejoice ​Sanki
79. Luggwa ​Samuel
80.Comfort ​Amos
81. Saraya ​Samuel
82. Sicker ​Abdul
83.Talata ​Daniel
84. Rejoice ​Musa
85Deborah ​Abari
86. Salomi ​Pogu
87.Mary ​Amor
88. Ruth ​Joshua
89Esther ​John
90. Esther ​Ayuba
91. Maryamu Yakubu
91. Zara ​Ishaku
93. Maryamu Wavi
94. Lydia ​Habila
95. Laraba ​Yahonna
96. Na’omi ​Bitrus
97.Rahila ​Yahanna
98. Ruth ​Lawan
99. Ladi ​Paul
100 Mary ​Paul
101. Esther ​Joshua
102. Helen ​Musa
103. Margret Watsai
104. Deborah Jafaru
105. Filo ​Dauda
106. Febi ​Haruna
107.Ruth ​Ishaku
108.Racheal Nkeki
109. Rifkatu Soloman
110.Mairama Yahaya
111.Saratu ​Dauda
112.Jinkai ​Yama
113.Margret Shettima
114.Yana ​Yidau
115. Grace ​Paul
116. Amina ​Ali
117. Palmata Musa
118. Awagana Musa
119. Pindar ​Nuhu
120.Yana ​Pogu
121. Saraya ​Musa
122. Hauwa ​Joseph
123. Hauwa ​kwakwi
125. Hauwa ​Musa
126. Maryamu Musa
127. Maimuna Usman
128. Rebeca Joseph
129.Liyatu ​Habitu
130. Rifkatu Yakubu
131. Naomi ​Philimon
132.Deborah Abbas
133. Ladi ​Ibrahim
134. Asabe ​Ali
135. Maryamu Bulama
136.Ruth ​Amos
137.Mary ​Ali
138. Abigail Bukar
139 Deborah Amos
140. Saraya ​Yanga
141. Kauna ​Luka
142. Christiana Bitrus
143.Yana ​Bukar
144. Hauwa ​peter
145.Hadiza ​Yakubu
146.Lydia ​Simon
147. Ruth ​Bitrus
148.Mary ​Yakubu
149.Lugwa ​Mutah
150 Muwa ​Daniel
151 Hanatu ​Nuhu
152. Monica Enoch
153. Margret Yama
154.Docas ​Yakubu.
155. Rhoda ​Peter
156. Rifkatu Galang
157. Saratu ​Ayuba
158. Naomi ​Adamu
159. Hauwa ​Ishaya
160. Rahap ​Ibrahim
162. Deborah Soloman
163 Hauwa ​Mutah
164. Hauwa ​Takai
165. Serah ​Samuel
166. Aishatu Musa

167. Aishatu Grema
168. Hauwa ​Nkeki
169. Hamsatu Abubakar
170. Mairama Abubakar
171 Hauwa ​Wule
172. Ihyi ​Abdu
173. Hasana Adamu
174. Rakiya ​Kwamtah
175 Halima ​Gamba
176. Aisha ​Lawan
177. Kabu ​Malla
178. Yayi ​Abana
179. Falta ​Lawan
180. Kwadugu Manu

Roving Informant removed the 'religion tag' on the names of these girls because we simply want to identify them as; Nigerian missing girls', not Christian and or Muslim missing girls.

Borno Gov. pressurized us into conducting Exams in Chibok – WAEC boss!

The Head of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Charles Eguridu has revealed that it was the Borno State Governor who pressurized his team to conduct examinations for the abducted girls in Chibok.

He made the disclosure at a stakeholders meeting convened by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan to seek a solution for the missing girls which has received widespread local and international attention.

Eguridu said WAEC asked that the exams be conducted in Maiduguri which is much safer than Chibok, however his request was rebuffed by the governor who assured of security in the small town where the girls were abducted.

“Following the previous experience, we were afraid to go to the North East this year, yet we risked it and asked for extra security through the Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike.

“We also asked the various state governments to relocate all the centres to the state capitals where there would be adequate security.

“The three governors did not respond to our request but instead said they had made adequate security arrangements.

“The Borno State government also refused to relocate the students from Chibok to safer places like Maiduguri. The Borno State government only agreed to relocate the remaining 189 pupils to Uba after the abduction of the girls.

“On the overall, 530 students registered for WAEC at the Chibok center: 135 males and 395 girls,” he said.

The WAEC boss presented the students bio data containing the passport photographs of all the 530 candidates that registered at the Chibok centre for this year’s examination.

He also tendered letters written to three North Eastern Governors by WAEC asking that the Governors conduct the exam in safer areas. It was only Shettima who requested, and at the last minute, that the exams be held in Chibok.

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Two inmates dead, at least 100 injured in suspected gas explosion at Florida jail!

Two inmates were reportedly killed and between 100 and 150 prisoners and guards injured in an apparent gas explosion at a Escambia County jail located in the northwestern part of Florida - southern United States, late on Wednesday.




The blast according to a county official, partly leveled the four-story Escambia County Jail’s central booking facility, which held roughly 600 inmates, at about 11 p.m., county spokeswoman Kathleen Castro said. No escapees were reported.


“The building is still standing, it’s just unstable and partially collapsed,” Castro told Reuters, describing the incident as an “apparent gas explosion”.


“We have reports people heard an explosion and smelled gas. There was no fire,” she said, adding that the blast may have been related to severe storms that have hit the southern United States.
“The facility did receive extensive flooding as a result of the rains yesterday,” Castro said.

She said two inmates were killed and between 100 and 150 of those present were injured, adding it was unclear how the inmates died or the breakdown of injured inmates and guards.

A statement on the Escambia County website made no mention of gas, saying only it was an “apparent explosion” after earlier reporting it was “an apparent gas explosion”.

The facility, holds about 400 men and 200 women. Injured prisoners were being transported to hospital, with those uninjured being sent to other detention centers in Escambia County and neighboring Santa Rosa County, Castro said.

Castro described a frenetic scene where officials were scrambling to get people out of the building, provide medical care, and working to make sure inmates were detained and routed to other facilities. The search and rescue operation was ongoing, though the building had been secured.

source: Reuters

Pope Francis sends out message to Politicians!

In a 'timely' message shared via his twitter page, Pope Francis has called on Politicians worldwide to carry out their responsibilities with human dignity and common good in mind. 



The twit below:
Pope Francis ‏@Pontifex 3h

I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good.