see photos: River kaduna overflows its bank, and causes heavy flooding

El rufai provided all the evidences used against saraki

Saraki's case adjourned

    Trail against senate president bukola saraki has been adjourned to october 21st, 22nd and 23rd. He pleaded not guilty to the 13 count charges placed on him at the tribunal. The tribunal granted him bail on self recognition.

Bomb blast in maiduguri

   MAIDUGURI —Fresh multiple explosions have rocked Ajilari Railway cross in Gomari Airport ward of Maiduguri metropolis leaving scores of people dead and many others critically injured according residents living around the affected areas.
Ajilari cross is an outskirt of Maiduguri which has witnessed series of Boko Haram attacks including bombings in recent past.
The explosions which were suspected to have been masterminded by suicide bombers occurred simultaneously
at about 7:38pm, while the last one took place at about 8pm which forced many residents to flee into the city for safety.
A survivor, Mallam Ali Babagana, based in Alilari said on phone that the incident occurred at a popular telecommunication service point where many people gathered to buy GSM recharge cards and transact other
petty businesses.
“I was close to the scene of the multiple blasts, but God (Allah) saved my life as many were feared dead and injured.
I saw many shattered bodies of human beings at the scene before I ran away for my dear life,” Babagana said.
Another source said that he heard explosions suspected to have been carried out by some male and female suicide bombers who sneaked into the town from Sambisa forest.
“Already, we have started moving out of Ajilari for a safer place into the main town of Maiduguri. Many dead bodies
littered the scene of the blasts as we sought for an escape route to Gomari Airport,” the source said.
In another development, some suspected members of Boko Haram sect ambushed an operational vehicles of security forces along Maiduguri-Dikwa- Gamboru Ngala road on
Saturday.
Dikwa and Ngala were captured by terrorists two months ago, but recently the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai led some troops to recapture the two towns from the insurgents.
Due to poor telecommunications networks in the area, details of casualties on the side of the security operatives and the terrorists were sketchy, but sources said, both sides
suffered severe casualties during the ambush.
When contacted on phone, the Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of the 7 Division in Maiduguri, Colonel Tukur Gusau told our Correspondent that he was busy somewhere,
but promised to get back to the reporter after obtaining all the information from troops in the affected communities of Dikwa and Ngala, even as he said, he has not heard of any
explosion in Maiduguri at the time of going to press.

flood kills 53, displaces 100,420 people in 11 states

    Abuja— No fewer than 53 people have died in 11 states, following flood disasters that displaced more than 100,420 persons this year.
Thousands of houses, farmlands and property worth billions of Naira were also lost to the flood disasters in many local government areas affected in the northern states.
The affected states are Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara, Kaduna, Jigawa, Adamawa, Yobe, Gombe and Bauchi.

In Kano State, a director with the state Emergency Relief and Rehabilitation Agency, SERERA, Alhaji Sabi’u Mohammed,
said 12 people lost their lives in the disasters.
He said: “The deceased lost their lives in six local government areas of the state between August and September as a result of the flooding.
“Six persons died in Shonono, two each in Dala and Tudun Wada and one each in Gabasawa and Takai Local Government areas.”
He added that more than 1,600 persons were displaced by the flood, while property worth millions of Naira was destroyed.
Mohammed explained that officials from the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA had already visited some of affected areas and assessed the situation.
He said: “At our level, we have submitted a comprehensive report to the state government for possible assistance to
the victims of the disaster.
“I am happy to inform you that the government had recently approved N15.8 million for the purchase and distribution of relief materials to victims of the flood disaster in Albasu
Local Government area.”

11 dead in Sokoto, Zamfara

From Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara States, NEMA confirmed
the death of 11 persons from the flooding.
Thickman Tanimu, Deputy Head, Sokoto Zonal Operations Office of NEMA, said 10 of the victims died in Zamfara, while a seven-year-old boy died at Kuchi village in Kebbe Local
Government Area of Sokoto State.
Mr. Tanimu said that more than 86,710 hectares, valued at N1.58 billion, were destroyed in the three states.
According to him, 20,477 homes were also affected, rendering more than 46,200 people homeless. He said that
the flood affected eight out of the 14 local government areas in Zamfara, which included Shinkafi, Talata Mafara, Gusau, Anka, Tsafe, Bungudu, Zurmi and Maradun.
The official explained that 8,540 houses and 6,450 hectares of farmland, valued at N260 million, were destroyed in the affected areas in the state.
Mr. Tanimu further said that 11, out of the 23 local governments in Sokoto State, were affected by the flood, while two communities in Wurno and Goronyo Local Government Areas were evacuated.
He said: “The other local government areas affected were Rabah, Kware, Binji, Kebbe, Gwadabawa, Wamakko, Bodinga, Sokoto North and Sokoto South.” He added that, 24,750 people and 6, 922 houses were
affected, with 42,800 hectares of farmlands, worth N750 million, either totally destroyed or badly affected.

10 councils in Kebbi

In Kebbi state, the NEMA official said that 10 out of the 21
local government areas were also affected by the disaster. They were Argungu, Birnin Kebbi, Bunza, Kalgo, Dandi, Bagudo, Yauri, Danko Wasagu and Suru. He disclosed that 21,450 people and 5,015 houses were affected, while 37,460 hectares of farmlands, worth N570
million, were also destroyed.
According to him, two communities in Birnin Kebbi, namely
Wabbako-Fulani and Wabbako-Hausa, have been submerged by the flood.
He attributed the high level of losses to the release of water from Bakalori and Goronyo dams located in Zamfara and Sokoto states, respectively.

3 dead in Kaduna

In Kaduna State, the Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Ezekiel Baba, confirmed the death of three people in Kachia Local Government Area of
the state.
Baba said three persons died in August following a flood disaster which also destroyed several houses and crops.
He said: “We have not had any major flood incident in Kaduna State this year. So far, the only areas affected by flood were Kachia, Soba and Kajuru Local Government
areas, which was largely due to negligence on the part of the affected communities.
“Many of the affected communities are in the habit of dumping waste in drains.”
Similarly, Acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Ahmed Salihu, said that the ministry had assigned contractors to consistently de-silt solid waste
from drains.
He said: “We have also educated and enlightened all local government areas likely to be affected by the impending
flood, based on NIMET’s prediction, to be prepared just in case the flood becomes a reality.”
Building regulations
However, NEMA’s North-West Zonal Coordinator, Musa Illalah, attributed the occurrences of flooding partly to disregard to building regulations by the people.
According to him, building houses on waterways predisposes communities to flooding.
Meanwhile, Mahmood Shehu, Director, Disaster
Management, Kaduna SEMA, said that the state government had embarked on the enforce-ment of public health and environmental standard laws.
The Director equally said that adequate measures are being taken on risk assessment, planning, early warnings, information management and communication to curb
avoidable disasters.

3 dead in Katsina

In Katsina State, three persons died and more than 3,620 people were displaced by flood during the year.
Ibrahim Abdulkarim, Acting Executive Director, Katsina SEMA, said that flood disasters were recorded in 15 Local Government areas of the state. He listed the councils affected as Baure, Bindawa, Charanchi, Daura, Dutsi and Dandume. Others were Ingawa, Kusada, Katsina, Malumfashi, Matazu, Mai’adua, Musawa, Sandamu and Zango.
According to him, NEMA had also awarded contract for a permanent IDPs camp in Katsina metropolis at the cost of N156 million.
He said that the project, which was under the Presidential Committee on Flooding Disaster, Relief and Rehabilitation, has reached over 75 percent completion.
Mr. Abdulkarim also said that 10 solar-powered boreholes had been drilled in flood-prone areas, to avoid outbreak of
diseases.
He further added that NEMA had distributed 11 trucks loaded with relief materials to the flood victims and that the agency was enlightening the populace against building on
waterways and dumping refuse in the drains.
Abdulkarim further stated that ecological committees had been constituted in all the 34 Local Government areas of the state to mobilize residents on safe sanitation and
environmental habits to avert flood disaster.
“Some of the punishments contained in the laws are too light to the extent that the offenders will not feel the
impact,” he added Four people were also reported killed in Jigawa flood, five in
Adamawa and three in Gombe.

11 killed in Bauchi

In Bauchi, the Secretary, State Humanitarian CoordinationTeam, SHCT, Abubakar Umar, said no fewer than 11 persons lost their lives, with 11,708 houses and 104,147 farmlands destroyed by flood in 2015.
Umar said the value of the property destroyed was about N1.5 billion. He said that 88 communities and 105 villages in 18, out of the 20 local government areas of the state,
were affected.
Mr. Umar said the state government spent N12.75 million in ameliorating the hardship of victims affected.
Abubakar Ibrahim, a farmer in Darazo town, said the flood that occurred in July, caused serious destruction of farmlands and animals. He said the state government had
promised to assist the victims, but added that they were yet to receive anything.
Another victim, Danmmusa Ahmed, who lost his house and
birds to the flood in Toro Local Government Area, said they were yet to receive any assistance.
He said: “The committee said government would assist, but nothing has come to me yet."
  source: vanguard.

How to defeat evil

   Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life. There is no heart in all the world that has not felt the sting of pain,no mind that has not been tossed upon the dark waters of trouble, no  household where great destroyers,deseases and death have not entered,several heart from heart,casting over all the dark pall of sorrow. In the strong,and apparantly indestructible meshes of evil all are more or less fast caught and pain, unhapiness and misfortune wait upon mankind.
   
   With the object of escaping these,men and women rush blindly into innumerable devices and pathways by which they fondly hope to enter into happiness. And to all the happiness sought seems to come and the soul,for a time is lulled into a sweet security and an intoxicating forgotfulness of the existance of evil,but the day of deseases comes at last or some great sorrow,temptation or misfortune breaks suddenly in on the unfortified soul.
 
   Is there then no way of escaping from pain and sorrow? Are there no means by which the bonds of evil may be broken? Is permanent happiness, secure prosperity and abiding peace a foolish dream? No, there is a way and i speak it with gladness, by which evil can be slain forever. There is a process by which diseases, poverty or any adverse condition can be put to and end. There is a by which permanent prosperity can be secured, also a practice by which unbroken and ending peace and bliss can be realized.

   It is not enough to pray to God to remove the evil; you must find out why it is there an what lesson it has for you. You must understand yourself. You must cease to be a disobiedient child in the school of experience, and must begin to learn with humility and patience, the leasons that are set for your edification and ultimate perfection. Evil is an experience in your own heart and by patiently examining and rectifying your own heart, you will gradualy move into the discovery of the origin and necessary be followed by its complete eradication.

   An evil is rooted in ignorance and as long as we remain in ignorance, we remain a subject of evil. There is no evil in life that is not a result of ignorance. If you are willing to learn its lessons, it will lead you to a higher wisdom and then vanish away. You will be positive to mould your own circumstances to translate all evil to good and to wave with a master hand the fabric of your destiny.

EFCC declares Ex- Societe Generale Financial institution director wanted over money loundry

The economic and financial crimes commition EFCC, has declared Kennedy Izuagbe, a former director of Societe Generale.Financial institution Nigeria Plc and managing director of
Carlisle Properties and Funding Restricted, needed over a case of conspiracy and cash laundering to the tune of over N3.6 billion. An announcement from EFCC reads…
   “Kennedy Izuagbe, a former Director of Societe Generale Financial institution Nigeria Plc and Managing Director of Carlisle Properties and Funding Restricted, has been
declared needed by the Financial and Monetary Crimes
Fee. Izuagbe, forty five, who’s being investigated in a case of conspiracy and cash laundering to the tune of over N3.6 billion, has gone into hiding and all efforts to succeed in him have proved abortive.
He’s linked to the a number of shady offers and gross monetary misconducts that occurred within the financial institution, during which a number of tens of millions of naira had been granted as mortgage with out due diligence. The suspect, who’s believed to have fled the nation, is a local of Iviukhua village, close to Agenebode, Etsako East native authorities space of Edo State. The EFCC enjoins members of the general public

with info on the whereabouts of Izuagbe to contact any of its places of work in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt,
Enugu, Gombe and Kano, or the closest police station.”

Celebrate with rull9ja blog reader

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Saraki Trail: Code of conduct chairman under pressure.

Following filling of a 13-count corruption charge against senate president Bukola Saraki,the chairman of the code of conduct bereau,mr.sam saba has come under pressure.

It was gathered that the CCB boss callesd a meeting of all commissioners to retrieve and relocate some key assets declearation forms of public office holders to a special safe.

It was further learnt that the retrieved assets forms were thoseof president mohammadu buhari,vice president yemi osinbajo,house of representatives speaker yakubu Dogora and the governors.

A source said: 'since the charges became public knowledge,where there had been pressure on the CCB chairman but the bureau has no choice than to do its statuary work.

police arrest woman for kidnapping 3 children

          The ltire division of lagos police command has arrested a woman for allegedelly kidnapping three children of the same parents.
The Commissioner of Police in Lagos, Mr Fatai Owoseni,who made the disclosure at a press briefing on Thursday,said the children were

between ages one and four.Owoseni said that the children, including twins, were coming from an Arabic school at about 7 p.m. when the
suspected kidnapper picked the twins up on the road. He said the suspect went to the mother of the children and demanded for the one year old baby, which she obliged.

"It was another woman who saw the manner the suspect demanded for the child and the mother gave the child out without any resistance or questions that now raised alarm.
"For the quick intervention of the police from Itire, the
suspect would have been mobbed.
"At first, the suspect acted like a dumb person but aftersome tactics used on her by our operative, she started talking.
"We also got information that she has mental problem. All that she has said so far are useful for our investigation,’’ he said.
The commissioner therefore, advised members of the public to watch each other family members.
Owoseni said that there was need for parents to take adequate measures for the security of their children in school and at home.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the suspect,