CYND's 7-Days Ultimatum: A Call For Peaceful Resolution!

A Few days after members of the Indigenous People of the Biafra (IPOB) movement claimed responsibility to the near-attack on Nigeria's Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, in Madird-Spain, while attending a climate change conference; a group, identified as Concerned Youths of Niger Delta (CYND) have reportedly given a seven-day ultimatum for the IPOB to apologize to the Minister, or all properties belonging to people of the Igbo ethnic group living and doing business in Ikwere-land (Minister Amaechi's Home-land) would be destroyed if such action repeats itself.

Describing the attack as "national embarrassment", CYND's National Coordinator, Commander Chikaru Oronda Ndamati, while briefing News men in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state capital city, cautioned the IPOB against unleashing their anger on the Transport Minister, or other national leaders over personal grievances.

The CYND group is reportedly made up of six Niger-Delta states: Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross-River, Delta, Edo and Rivers states.

Here's a Call for Peaceful resolution of issues that tend to divide us.

Explosion Rocks Idimu Pipeline!

Pipeline explosion rocked Iyana-Odu area of Idimi, Lagos state, in the early hours of Thursday, December 5th, 2019. 

Exposed Pipes at the area of explosion

Exposed Pipes at the area of explosion

According to eye-witnesses and residents who spoke with our reporters on anonymity terms, between the hours of 7:30 and 8am, there was a deafening sound from the pipeline area, then an explosion and inferno from a leaking pipe. 

This situation saw residents, who were hitherto getting ready to start their day,  running out of their houses, some, almost naked.

It was gathered that Thursday's fire was the fourth-time in 2019. As at the time of this report, there was no official report of the cause of explosion.

 A resident said it might have been triggered off by leaking pipes in the area, as a result of vandalism, thereafter, candles thrown into the small nearby river by members of prayer houses around the area, might have started the fire.

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Weeks After Reprisal Attacks, Businesses Are Back At The Malls!

The great loss suffered by enterprises after the reprisal attacks on shops located in Shoprite Malls, forced many businesses to shut-down for a while. A recent visit to the mall visit shows that most of the enterprises are back and running.

Take a look at the following video: 

Businesses located in Shoprite malls around Lagos- Nigeria, were attacked in the reprisal on recent xenophobic attacks on foreigners and their enterprises in South Africa. The situation has since been brought under control.

Worrisome Fire Out-Breaks In Nigerian Markets!

Recent fire out-breaks in some popular markets around the country calls for concern. It would be recalled that in mid October, a tanker, loaded with the PMS product, fell, spilling it's content around the MCC, Upper Iweka, and the Ochanja market areas, in the commercial city of Onitsha, eastern Nigeria. Lives were lost and properties worth millions of Naira destroyed in the inferno. A couple of days later, a similar incident occurred at the Omaba phase 2 area, Onitsha, and another at the popular Otowodo-market in Ughelli, Delta state. 

On Tuesday, 5th of November 2019, between the hours of 9 and 10 in the morning, fire reportedly broke out in one of the buildings which housed several enterprises on the busy Martins street, Balogun-Market, in the Lagos-island axis. There were no confirmed reports of casualties, however, properties running into millions were lost. 

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The Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, during his visit to the scene of the incident on Wednesday, November 6th, promised to provide support and relief materials to affected individuals, he also mention the need to complete the modern and safer market project in the area. 

According to official report, the fire incident was caused by factors that could have been avoided and even though emergency services were on ground promptly. The building could not be rescued due to congestion and other issues.

Eyewitnesses interviewed by our correspondent at the scene said the incident was caused by electrical fault.

Nigerian Communities In Need Of Government Intervention!