At Least 22 People Have Been Confirmed Dead From The Explosion In Maiduguri

03-2016
At least 22 people have been killed after a suicide bomber
hit a mosque in Maiduguri.
17 others were also wounded and evacuated to the hospital.
It occurred during early morning prayers on Wednesday.
Correspondent reports that the first bomb went off from one
of the suicide bombers whom had disguised as a man in
order to be able to join the worshipers.
The second bomber, who was outside the mosque,
detonated her bomb when sympathisers rushed to the
scene.
It is the third attack on Umarari, a village occupied by
people dislodged by insurgents in adjoining villages.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the
Boko Haram terrorist group is largely suspected to be
responsible.
The group had claimed responsibility for similar attacks in
the past.
The attack came a day after the Chief of Army Staff,
Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, said he was confident
that Boko Haram would be eliminated in Nigeria.
He had said that troops fighting insurgents in the northeast
were doing so with utmost commitment and renewed zeal.
He gave the assurance on Tuesday at the office of the Oyo
State Governor during his one-day familiarisation tour of
the Two Division of Nigerian Army, Adekunle Fajuyi
Cantonment, Odogbo in Ibadan.
According to Buratai, the intensity of the onslaught against
terrorism has been increased and this has resulted in the
noticeable reduction of attacks in the region.
More details later.

OMG! Dangote Trailer Kills Couple

The eyewitness wrote: “Another Dangote trailer killed a
couple last night in Lagos around 11pm while I was
driving home. The trailer doesn’t have any caution light
or break light and it’s easy for any car coming from
behind to crash into it.

OMG! Woman Gives Birth To Triplet At Home On Her Own Against Doctor's Orders

A housewife, Mrs. Blessing Etoor, defied doctor’s
instruction that she would be delivered of her babies by
Caesarean section.
Mrs. Etoor, an indigene of Eleme in Rivers State by
marriage, who now has 10 children (six girls and four
boys) through multiple births, eventually gave birth to
triplets around 1am on Monday at home the natural way
without going through the knives.
It was gathered that Mrs. Etoor, who was formerly a hair
dresser, was able to push for the first baby to come out
before help finally came her way from a local nurse.
Narrating how she was delivered of the remaining two
babies, Mrs. Etoor, said her husband was able to bring in
somebody that helped her.
She said, “I gave birth to the babies in the house. I was not
feeling labour; I was just calling on my husband to give me
water to take my bath. I sat back and lay down. Just as I
was sleeping, water began to rush out.
“Then I asked my husband to run out and bring somebody
to take me to the hospital. But then he should ask his
younger brother to come and stay with me. Before the
brother came, it was like something was coming out of me.
“I asked my children to help me stay on the ground. I was
calling my first daughter, Faith, to help me. Just as I lay
down with my back on the ground, I started feeling the
baby trying to come out.
“I pushed and the first baby came out. So, I called on my
husband to bring somebody in to help me. With the help, I
was able to be delivered of the other two babies.”
Mrs. Etoor pointed out that her two elder sisters had given
birth to twins, stressing that her family has a history of
multiple births.
People have been visiting the one-bedroom apartment of
the Etoors on hearing how the woman from Ekiti State
shunned doctor’s directive and gave birth to triplets at
home.
Her husband, Mr. John Etoor, recalled that he had kicked
against the Caesarean section written on her card by the
doctor at the General Hospital, Nchia, because none of his
wife’s family had the history of undergoing such a method
of giving birth.
He added that though he never prayed for multiple births,
he had accepted them because they were given to him by
God.
Mr. Etoor, however, called for financial support from
government and public-spirited individuals, adding that the
babies were currently at home while the doctors had,
according to him, told him to bring the babies when they
are in stable condition.

NUPENG Calls Off Strike

Labour unions in Nigeria’s oil sector, the National Union of
Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) and the Petroleum
and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria
(PENGASSAN), have called off their strike with immediate
effect.
According to sources the strike was called off at 4:00 am
today after a marathon meeting between the Minister of
State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu and leaders of the two
unions.
The workers had staged a work walk-out on Wednesday
following the announcement of the unbundling of the NNPC
into seven autonomous units.
The workers kicked that the Minister had not carried them
along and that the unbundling triggered issues about
pensions, possible job losses and due process.
Spokesmen said the unbundling also breached the law that
set up the NNPC, 38 years ago.
Kachikwu assured them that there was no unbundling of
NNPC, stressing that, what was happening was a
restructuring.

NNPC: Workers Shutdown Operations Nationwide

Oil workers have shut down the operations of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) nationwide
following Tuesday’s unbundling of the corporation.
Members of staff and management of the corporation arrived
their various offices on Wednesday morning to discover that
they could not gain entrance following the total strike.
The immediate impact of the strike will be nationwide fuel
scarcity as products will not be lifted by NUPENG. It is not
expected to affect the crude oil export yet except the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) joins in
solidarity. Ibe Kachikwu, Minister of state for petroleum
resources who doubles as the NNPC Group Managing
Director, had announced the creation of seven independent
units on Tuesday, namely downstream, gas and power,
refineries, ventures, corporate planning and services, and
finance and accounts.
The Group Executive Committee (GEC) of the Nigeria Union
of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) and the
National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers
(NUPENG) convened an emergency meeting at 10pm on
Tuesday to discuss the development. At the end of the
meeting, GEC sent this message to all members:
“The GEC of NUPENG & PENGASSAN at its meeting of 8th
March 2016, which started at 10:00pm, has extensively
discussed the pronouncement of the GMD on NNPC
UNBUNDLING. We observed that the GMD/HMSP totally
disregarded due process and failed to engage
STAKEHOLDERS.
Hence, from midnight today (Tuesday), ALL NNPC
LOCATIONS will be SHUT DOWN COMPLETELY until further
notice. Further directives will be communicated
accordingly.”