Reports coming from Nangere Police Division in Yobe State say that a Police Constable in the early hours of Friday, shot two Inspectors to death and then turned the gun on himself.
Eyewitnesses said the trouble happened over a disagreement on a homicide case being handled at the station.
Details later.
The Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON, has rejected the insinuations in certain quarters that the stampede which led to the death of over 700 pilgrims in Mina, near Mecca was triggered by African pilgrims.
Barrister Abdullahi Mukhtar said at a news conference in Mecca, Saudi Arabia that it is unfair for anyone to blame Africans taking part in the pilgrimage for the tragic incident.
His words :
“At this time of electronic age and the close circuit cameras installed in Mecca and environment, the authorities can easily know how the stampede started and what caused it."
He however urged the pilgrims to abide by the time tables provided by the Saudi authorities to forestall a reoccurrence of the ugly incident.
According to News Agency of Nigeria, three Nigerians have been confirmed to be among those who died in the stampede.
NAN
Two staff of a new generation bank and two police officers attached to the bank were killed in a daylight armed robbery attack on the bank located at Ogaminana in Adavi local government area of Kogi State.
Reports have it that the robbers who struck around 10 am carted away 25 million naira meant to pay the salaries of the local government's workers.
The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, ACP. Williams Aya, who confirmed the incident, said that no arrest has been made, even as the police are on the trail of the robbers.
President Muhammadu Buhari has been called upon to stimulate economic activities and reverse the current negative growth of the country's GDP.
Specifically, the Centre for Social Justice, CSJ on Thursday urged Buhari to as a matter of urgency release funds for investment into capital projects to stimulate economic activities.
A statement released in Abuja by CSJ's Lead Director, Mr Eze Onyekpere called President Buhari's attention to the recent warning by the governor of the Central Bank that the economy is at risk of going into recession by 2016 if proactive measures were not taken.
The apex bank's governor, Mr Godwin Emefiele had on Tuesday at the Monetary Policy Committee meeting in Abuja said that the economy had remained fragile as a result of many factors.
Consequently, the CSJ has called on President Buhari to constitute his economic team without further delay.
The group also called on Buhari to quickly unveil his economic agenda as "public and private stakeholders cannot continue groping in the dark and imagining the content of the government’s economic agenda.”
Source : THE PUNCH
According to official accounts, 717 persons died while 863 others were injured in a stampede that occurred in Mina, near Mecca as over two million pilgrims were taking part in the ritual to throw stones at the devil.
Already, Nigeria is confirmed to have lost two illustrious citizens in the most tragic event to have occurred during Hajj in more than two decades. They are Prof Tijani El-Miskin of the University of Maiduguri and editor and girl child rights campaigner, Bilkisu Yusuf.
While Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Nayef has ordered an investigation into the incident, a number of reasons are being speculated to have caused the sudden chaos that led to the tragedy.
While Saudi health minister, Khaled al-Falih, said the stampede occurred because many pilgrims moved “without respecting the timetables” established by authorities, Iran's head of Hajj Commission, Said Omahi has a contrary view.
The head of Iran’s Hajj organisation, Said Omahi , told Iranian news agency, Irna, that two paths close to the scene of the incident had been inexplicably closed off by the Saudi authorities, resulting in the build-up of pilgrims.
However, the most damning reason so far adduced for this tragic event is the one put forward by the Head of the Central Hajj Committee, Prince Khaled al-Faisal.
He is reported to have told
Saudi-owned al-Arabiya TV that the stampede was caused by
“some pilgrims with African nationalities."
Does that suggest that the pilgrims who moved "without respecting the timetables" set by the authorities are the "pilgrims with African nationalities"?
And so, Bilkisu Yusuf, one of the most strident voices for the girl child died in the Mecca tragedy too?
"Bilkisu Yusuf attained heights that she direly wanted the GIRL CHILD to surpass thru society's COLLECTIVE ACTIONS. What a most PAINFUL LOSS!
"Bilkisu Yusuf was an extraordinary woman & professional. A distinguished journalist who gave plenty RESEARCH & VOICE to the GIRL CHILD. SAD." Oby Ezekwesili
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