Tragic : Fire Guts Bayelsa's Chairman BIR house, Kills his son and girlfriend

A fire outbreak at the residence of the Bayelsa Chairman of Board of Internal Revenue, Mr Nimibofa Ayawei, on Saturday claimed two lives

According to the News Agency of Nigeria, the two victims were Ayawei’s son and his girlfriend, who were in the building, located in Akenfa, a suburb of Yenagoa.


NAN reports that residents assisted in putting out the fire and saved the building from being burnt down.

A family source, James Akan, it was reported that the two victims were Mike Ayawei and his girlfriend, whose name could not be immediately ascertained.

Akan said the fire started early on Saturday as Port-Harcourt Electricity Distribution Company restored power supply, raising suspicion that the incident might be from power surge.

Akan said: “The family members have deposited the remains of the two persons at the mortuary, it is really a pathetic sight.

“As they restored light, there was a loud noise like explosion and other occupants of rooms in the house started running for safety.

“Mike was trying to save his girlfriend before they were caught up by the fire.

“It is a pity, others even broke the protector in an effort to save their lives but help came too late, he unfortunately died trying to save his girlfriend.”

Akan said Ayawei just recovered from serious ailment and was away for burial when the fire broke out.

He said the family was in grief and would soon prepare for the burial of the victims considering that they were young people.

When contacted, the Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Asinim Butswat, said the command received a distress call that a house was burning and immediately dispatched a response team.

Head of Fire Service in Yenagoa, Dennis Obumor, said the service was not contacted during the fire, adding that the agency was unaware of the incident.


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Source : NAN

Photo not taken from the scene but was used for illustrative Purpose

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I can't tell how the negotiations went for the release of the chibok girls, i wasn't aware

Mohammed Buhari has denied knowledge of what his government exchanged with Boko Haram for the 21 abducted Chibok girls, saying he would need to return from Germany to be fully briefed.




“This is what I don’t know until I go back. I said the release is on the morning I left and this is not something we will discuss on the telephone,” Mr. Buhari said in the interview with German broadcaster, Deutsche Welle.


Twenty-one Chibok girls were released on Thursday and some government officials said the administration did not give Boko Haram anything in return.


The Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, denied a report that the government released Boko Haram detainees for the girls.


“Please note that this is not a swap. It is a release,” Mr. Mohammed told reporters Thursday.


Mr. Mohammed said President Buhari assigned the State Security Service to proceed with the negotiation and credited the release to “painstaking negotiations and trust on both sides”.


During the exchange with Mr. Buhari, Deutsche Welle’s Phil Gayle asked the president if he was aware of an exchange of Boko Haram commanders for the girls as widely reported in the media.


“Until I go back, I will receive a formal briefing on how the negotiations went,”

 “As soon as I go back home I will find out the written confirmation of how it all went.” Buhari said

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Attorney General tells Accused Judges to prove their innocence in Court

AMIDST  allegation of vendetta against him by two judges whose home the Department of State Security raided last week,  Abubakar Malami, the Attorney General of the Federation, has advised the duo to go to court and prove their innocence.



Malami while reacting to the allegations fired against him by the two judges through his Media Adviser, Comrade Salihu Isah, described their claims as mere afterthought, which he says does not have the force of law.

Justice Ademola Adeniyi and Justice Dimgba both of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had slammed Malami for being responsible for their travails in the hands of the DSS because of the previous verdicts they delivered against the justice minister.

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Photos : Vice-President Yemi Osibanjo represents President Buhari at the African Union Summit.

Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo on Saturday, October 15th was in Togo to represent President Muhammadu Buhari at the African Union Summit on Maritine Security in Lome, the Togo capital.

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Nigeria's Foreign reserve fall to $24.21bn.

The Economic crisis of the nation is not getting any better as the foreign exchange reserves have fallen to a new all time low.

The country’s external reserves have hit an 11-year low of $24.21bn, according to the latest data from the Central Bank of Nigeria.



As a result of this, a limited amount of dollars will be available at the official interbank spot market, fuelling concerns over another round of depreciation of the naira.


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The foreign exchange reserves fell by $600m in two weeks before shedding $1bn in four weeks, the CBN statistics showed.

Specifically, the reserves fell from $25.8bn on August 16 to $24.8bn on September 16. It decreased by $600m from the $25.4bn recorded on August 31 to $24.8bn on September 16, the current CBN data revealed.

This decline in the external reserves follows the CBN’s almost daily interventions at the interbank/official foreign exchange market in recent weeks, as chronic dollar shortage continues to weigh on the economy.

In its efforts to defend the naira and prevent it from falling further at the official interbank market, the central bank has been selling dollars there more frequently.

The naira had fallen to an all-time low of 365.25 to the dollar at the interbank market on August 18 before making a gradual recovery.

On Friday, the local currency closed at 305 against the greenback at the official market, while closing at 460 to the dollar at the parallel market on the same day.

The CBN had on June 20 lifted its 16-month-old currency controls and auctioned about $4bn on the spot and futures markets to clear a backlog of dollar demand and help boost interbank market trading.

The global plunge in oil prices caused the reserves to be depleting very fast. The development had forced the CBN to introduce foreign exchange controls, which were abandoned in June.

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New Born Baby Dump In Pit Toilet

     The corpse of a newborn baby has been discovered at the Ikotun area of Lagos state on Sunday, October 16.

The baby estimated to have been about one-day-old, was dumped in a pit with stagnant water in the area.

Residents of the area discovered the disturbing sight at a BRT bus stop and made a report to security operatives in the area,
According to reports, the corpse of the young child was handed over to the police at the Ikotun Division.
The search for the mother of the child has not been successful as anyone could have done it

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Ex-Beauty Queen Humiliated and Slapped by an Army Officer

Immediate past Miss Imo State Queen, Stephanie Korie was yesterday night humiliated by an army man at a graduation party of her friends.


Read her reaction below:

"Nigeria has turned to something else where men treat women with no respect. I'm so disappointed with our military;  they treat women with no respect . I've been hearing stuffs about the things they  do in Aba, Abia States but didn't believe until it happened to me tonight . I actually went to my friends graduation party with my younger sis  in my school, when all of a sudden some guys started fighting. I wasn't comfortable so we had to go out and we where about leaving when a guy approached me ( army officer not dressed in his uniform )  and asked me of the people with us; I was surprised because I was invited and didn't know much people in the party. But I didn't answer him then ,he told me he would slap me if I don't tell him. I was surprised and asked him why? Before I could recall what was happening he gave me a dirty slap. Now I'm wondering; do men go about slapping  any female they see? or the men in our country have lost the respect they have for women? It is a big shame for a soldier in the Nigerian  army to act with such irresponsible behaviour. And when he was asked why he did what he did, his reply was "do you know who I am" #StandAgainstMilitaryIntimidation #MenShouldNotHitWomenForNoReason #TheMilitaryShouldProtectAndNotIntimidateOurWomen‎"

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