Photo: How Saudi security forces caused the stampede by fencing off walkway & closing the gate http://lindaikeji.blogspot.com/2015/09/photo-how-saudi-security-forces-caused.html
Friday, 25 September 2015
The Nigerian Army declared on Friday that more than 200 Boko Haram Fighters gave up their arms following the capture of Banki on the border with Cameroun by Nigerian troops.
Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj. Gen. Yusha’u Abubakar told newsmen that after the fall of Banki on Thursday, over 200 insurgents willingly submitted themselves to Nigerian forces.
He said, “I have just received information from our troops about an hour ago that over 200 Boko Haram insurgents surrendered to them.”
Nigeria's military chiefs say they are doing everything possible to achieve President Buhari’s December deadline for the complete defeat of Boko Haram.
In a Friday morning fire incident that happened in Kubwa, a suburb of Abuja, the Isah family had their Sallah ruined when their one year old son was consumed in a fire incident.
Mrs Isah had lit up the stove before locking the door behind her, leaving the toddler alone in their single room apartment as she dashed out to buy condiments.
By the time Mrs Isah returned, the toddler had dragged the lighted stove upon himself, setting himself and the house on fire.
Sources said the toddler was dead before help could come and has already been buried according to Islamic rites.
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
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