Another Military Helicopter Crashes In Girei, Adamawa, Kills All Three On-Board!

A chopper belonging to the Nigerian Air Force reportedly went down at the same area, where a military helicopter on surveillance mission crash-landed in Damare town in Adamawa state days ealier.

According to reports, residents around the area said the chopper crash landed in outskirts of Girei town, a suburb of Yola, the headquarters of Adamawa State North-east Nigeria.

A statement posted on Defence Headquarters blog said all three crew lost their lives in the event. Rescuers reportedly worked throughout the night until Friday morning to preserve the wreckage and scene. 

The statement read:

“At about 2200hours yesterday 13 November 2014, a ground attack helicopter on an armed patrol crashed around the Federal University of Technology Yola, Adamawa State. 

“The crew of 3 was lost in the ill-fated accident.

“Rescue party worked throughout the night to preserve the wreckage of the aircraft and scene of the accident for proper investigation to be carried out.  Further details would be made known later” .

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A place of worship at Issakaba Base community, Ikota Housing Estate - Lekki area.

Deplorable Living Condition Of Slum Settlements In High-Brow Lekki Area Of Lagos State!

Call them neighbours and you are right, one can not help but ponder over the contrast between the 'high-profile' neighbourhood of the Victorian Garden City (VGC) and the Isakaba base make 'shift-settlement' pictured below, otherwise known as Ikota Housing Estate along the Lekki -Peninsula area of Lagos state, Nigeria.  

Picture of Ikota Housing estate entrance below:

Picture of Victoria Garden City (VGC) entrance below:

Manor Garden Estate in front of Ikota Housing estate below:

Pearly Gates Estate, close to VGC, Manor Garden and Ikota Housing Estate below:

  

Ikota Housing Estate: 

Ikota Housing estate is one of the low-income settlements relocated over twenty-years ago from Maroko, the area where the prestigious Oriental Hotel, Lagos, and Addax Petroleum is currently situated, along the Lekki Peninsula axis of Lagos state. 

As required of well-meaning citizens of a State, of-age (18-years and above) residents of this community perform their civic responsibility by voting during elections, just like their "upper-class" neighbours. The propulsion of this discussion is that while the high-brow and middle class areas get to enjoy some percentage of electoral promises, peharps due to the fact that they have influential individuals living among them; residents of the low-income estates get less than they deserve or might have been promised during electoral campaigns.

Despite past and present government's electoral campaign promises of 'House For All', motor-able roads, healthy drinking water, electricity supplies, quality/ affordable Health-Care schemes' ...the basic amenities that makes life easy, residents of this estate and other poorly planned/ densely populated communities are not seeing the actualisation of most electoral promises.

They live in unplanned and poorly constructed houses with no drainage, toilets/ bathrooms, and proper waste disposal system, as a matter of fact, some construct their houses on dustbins, as seen in the picture above.

They buy drinking water from residents that are lucky to have constructed bore-holes. During the rainy season, this community is dangerously flooded. There is no motor-able road. The only thing peharps going for this people is population because that is what lures most Politicians to these communities during polls.

Why should citizens of any well meaning State, be allowed to live in this deplorable condition while elected government officials at both State and Local government levels appear unperturbed.

The government can do much better than this, and we hope they do. 

Obianuju Mbanusi writes

Yobe School Bombing - State Government Shuts Down All Schools!

Following Monday bomb blast, Yobe State government has indefinitely shut all (Government/ Private) primary and secondary schools in some councils of the state pending when security improves.

The bomb explosion on Government Senior Science Secondary School, Potiskum assembly ground was detonated by a young boy, dressed like a student, who walked up to the assembly ground after an unidentified car dropped him off at the gate of the school at about 7:30am. The incident reportedly claimed the lives of at least 48 students and injured scores of others.

Military sources in Damaturu, revealed that unlike in Borno State where suspected insurgents launch attacks from either Sambisa or Gulumba Forests, the operational cells of the insurgents are located within Potiskum township and its environs. 

On his part, the Emir of Fika, who also doubles as the Chairman of Yobe state Council of Chiefs, Dr Muhammadu Ibn Abali Muhammadu Idrissa, summoned an emergency meeting of all the district heads, ward heads and village heads under his domain at his palace where they allegedly discussed on how to best handle security situation in the area.

In a brief address to the gathering of over 30 title holders the Emir expressed deep concern about the continuous attacks and lost of lives as result of the Boko haram insurgency.

Photo source: AP

Early Morning Blast Leaves Scores Of Students And Teachers Dead At Potiskum, Yobe State!

Scores were reportedly killed on Monday after an explosion ripped through a school in Potiskum, Yobe state, northeast  Nigeria as students gathered for morning assembly.

Accounts of the incident given by eye witnesses revealed that blast happened at the Government Comprehensive Senior Science Secondary School in Potiskum, the commercial town of Yobe state, at about 7:45am (0650GMT).

The reports says students and teachers gathered for the morning assembly when a bomber disguised as a student of the school entered the assembly hall with the students and triggered the explosive devices killing several students

Yobe State Commissioner of Police, Markus Danladi, who reportedly confirmed the bomb blast, said that he was on his way to the scene of the incident as he had no details. 
There is no official death toll, but 13 bodies were reportedly taken to hospital with more than 30 others left "with various degrees of injuries". 

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Myles Munroe, Wife, Killed In Bahamas Plane Crash!

Internationally renown motivational speaker and business coach, Dr. Myles Munroe of Bahamas Faith International  and his wife Mrs. Ruth Ann Munroe died in a plane crash in the Bahamas.

News revealed that the plane, a Lear LEA - 1.05% 36 executive jet, departed the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) in Nassau, Bahamas at 4:07 pm for the Grand Bahama International Airport, a privately owned international airport in Freeport, Bahamas with nine people on board; but it struck a crane at the Grand Bahama Ship Yard, exploded on impact and crashed while making an approach for landing at Grand Bahama International Airport at 5.10pm, into the ground near a junkyard area.

the crash site

The Bahamas Ministry of Transport and Aviation who reported the news says the crash killed all nine people on board the private jet. The identities of the other people on board have not yet been confirmed. The cause of the crash was not immediately determined, though there had been heavy rain across the region. A full investigation is expected to begin on Monday.

It was gathered that the crash occurred as people were gathering in Grand Bahama for Dr. Munroe’s 2014 Global Leadership Forum which scheduled for November, 10. 

A speaker at the event,  former mayor of Atlanta and former U.S Ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young released a statement through his foundation: “Ambassador Young expresses his deep sadness over the tragic death of his friends Dr. Myles and Mrs. Ruth Munroe. He offers condolences to the Munroe family and the families of the other souls who lost their lives as a result of this shocking plane crash.”                 

    

Africa’s richest woman and oil mogul, Mrs. Folorunso Alakija is expected to speak at the leadership forum.

President of Oral Roberts University where Munroe was a student, Dr. William M. Wilson, expressed his sadness at the loss of an "outstanding ORUalumni and friend."

May the souls of all departed, find rest in the Lord's bossom, Amen.