Nigerian Army storm media house, quizzes manager over mutiny report!

According to reports, troops from the 7 Division of the Nigerian Army yesterday invaded the Maiduguri Regional Office of the Media Trust, the publishers of Daily Trust newspaper and quizzed two of its managers following a story published by the medium. 

The newspaper had published a story on alleged mutiny by troops from the division earlier in the week, which drew the ire of the Nigeria Army. It was gathered from staff of the establishment in Maiduguri that about eight soldiers led by the newly deployed spokesman of the 7 Division, Colonel Sani Usman stormed their office located along Baga road at about 12 noon, requesting for the writer of the story, according to report from ThisDay. 



When the writer could not be provided, the troops allegedly quizzed the Regional Operation Manager, Jamilu Aliyu and the out-going operational manager, Aminu Ado to the division office on the order of the acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the division, Brigadier General M.Y Ibrahim.

The duo were reportedly released about an hour later after interrogation. Both Aliyu and Ado, recounting their experience later, said they were threatened by the commander who repeatedly warned he medium to stop unnecessary criticisms of the military in the newspaper’s reports. 

Meanwhile, a letter signed by the division spokesman, Col Usman and left at the Maiduguri office of the Daily Trust warned the newspaper to retract the story. 

The letter warned that “failure to do so would henceforth attract sanctions”. It is also stated that “over time your paper has been unnecessarily critical of the military without cross-checking your facts with the formation,” even against the backdrop of the division unreadiness to give any information to journalists having centralized all information dissemination on insecurity in the state to the military authority at the defence headquarters. 
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Ex-Biafra Soldiers' Pension Triggers Agitation By Other Ex-Servicemen!

The military has started payment of pension to soldiers of the Nigerian Army who defected to fight for Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War.

Chairman of the Military Pensions Board, Air Commodore Mohammed Dabo, disclosed yesterday during the visit of the Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, to the headquarters of the Board in Abuja.

According to Dabo, the board listed 160 ex-Biafra soldiers granted pardon by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2000 for the payment of their monthly pension.

He said: "The Federal Government in May 2000 granted Presidential pardon to personnel of the Nigerian Armed Forces who defected to Biafra during the civil war. Their dismissal was therefore commuted to retirement."

Dabo added that "Subsequently, the Federal Government directed for their inclusion in the pension payroll which has generated a lot of irreconcilable problems."

He said: "For instance, the ex-service men are currently paid monthly pension on the bar; that is assuming that they are 35 years of service irrespective of actual level of service. One of the major contentious issues is the continuous receipt of additional list of Presidential pardoned soldiers published in various Federal Government gazettes."

Source: Daily Trust

Fire aftermath- NFF may be probed!

Following the fire that engulfed the secretariat of the NFF on Wednesday, information revealed there are strong indications that the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) may bounce on the leadership of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) any time from now, as the Sports Ministry has asked the Commission to probe the mountain of corruption allegations leveled against the football federation.

A top government source hinted on Thursday that the government has asked the Commission to probe the football financial dealings over sometime and wondered why the EFCC has not acted.

"I am surprised that the EFCC has not commenced investigation of the NFF. May be the action has been stopped," the source said.

It was alledged that the government is baffled at the fire that razed the secretariat, but is yet to make its position known.

Efforts to confirm the veracity of the government letter proved abortive as the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwajurien denied knowledge of such letter to the commission.

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Genevieve takes the Icebucket Challenge!

As world renown celebrities take on the icebucket challenge, Nigerian sultry actress Genevieve Nnaji, on Wednesday joined in, she shared the video of her participation on her instagram page and also nominated the Psquare group for the challenge.

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The action aimed at raising funds for research into ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a form of motor neurone disease) and in the UK to raise money for the Motor Neurone Disease Association and Macmillan Cancer Support.

So far the icebucketchallenge has reportedly raised over $40 million for charity.

Discharged Ebola Patients Warned to Abstain From Sex!

The Nigerian Institute of Medical Research (NIMR) has warned that infected men who have recovered from the killer Ebola virus disease (EVD) can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to seven weeks after the recovery.

Director General of the Institute, Innocent Ujah, gave the warning on Thursday at a one-day sensitisation programme on the EVD at the Lagos State University (LASU).

Ujah, whose presentation was titled, 'Clinical features and management of Ebola virus Disease', stressed that men who have recovered from the illness should abstain from sexual intercourse till about eighth to ninth week of total recovery.

"Men who have recovered from the disease can still transmit the virus through their semen for up to seven weeks after recovery from illness.

"Any man that has recovered from the Ebola disease should wait for eight to nine weeks after recovery before having sexual intercourse, in order not to transmit the virus to another person," he counselled.

Ujah, a gynaecologist, said NIMR was aware that the virus is coming and it has started preparing for it, adding that the institute is preparing to upgrade its facilities to take care of the disease and other deadly ones.

He reiterated that there is no definite therapy or vaccine against Ebola, noting that Nigerians have never paid sufficient attention to infectious diseases like this.

Ujah added that this is the first time Nigerians have responded to emergency.

Also, Adeyeye Arigbabuwo, whose presentation was entitled, 'EVD in the community: The myths and prevention', stated that myths refer to a lot of rumours, beliefs, perception from ordinary taboos, culture-guided understanding, sentiments and at some extreme, hard views that may not have scientific backing but being peddled around to create scare or fear with or without deliberate intentions.

According to him, examples of myths around Ebola recently include the use of salt in water to bathe for reduction of Ebola virus chances of infectiousness, the chewing of bitter cola in large quantity to prevent contagiousness of Ebola virus and the consumption of some daily quantity of condensed milk to prevent Ebola virus attack among others.

He stated that in breaking these myths, "it is good to note that Ebola virus is the cause of Ebola virus disease".

"It is when we come in contact with an infected living person or dead corpse and we have contacts with either their body fluids or secretions like blood, vomiting, stool, saliva, sweat etc that we are likely to be infected," Arigbabuwo said.

On its part, the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS) has offered to support government's efforts in containing the spread of Ebola virus in Nigeria.

But it said the country could effectively tame the highly infectious disease only if certain measures are taken.

President of the academy, Oyewale Tomori, in a statement on Thursday said the institution remains optimistic that Nigeria was capable of controlling the outbreak of the disease if the available human and material resources are maximally deployed.

Source:Daily Independent

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