WOMAN TRAPPED IN A RIVER AFTER CAR FELL INTO RIVER

 

An accident has occurred along Ife-Ibadan Expressway on Monday when a vehicle conveying three occupants including a couple plunged into the Asejire Dam.

Asejire Dam is the boundary between Osun and Oyo State.

Two male occupants of the car which submerged in the river were rescued alive by the local divers but the only female occupant in the car could not be brought out of the water for over one hour after the accident.

LASSA FEVER SPREADS TO PLATEAU STATE IN NIGERIA

 

The Commissioner for Health in Plateau, Dr Kunden Deyin, said the state recorded four deaths, while laboratory tests confirmed five cases of Lassa fever since December 2016.

According to the commissioner, 80 per cent of the mortality rate was due to late presentation of patients to health care facilities.

“The mortality rate is as high as 80 per cent; the reason is that people are reporting very late, Lassa fever is best managed when patients start taking the drug within the first week of contracting the disease,” Deyin said.

“The symptoms are similar to that of malaria such as nausea, body weakness and joint pains; it is at advanced stage that symptoms such as bleeding from the eyes, nose, mouth or private part occur.”

NIGERIAN WIDOW DESCRIBED HOW HIS HUSBAND AND SON WERE MURDERED

 

A 60-year-old widow, Mrs. Murna Yakubu from Ungwan Mississi community in the Jema'a Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Nigeria narrated how the Fulani herdsmen murdered her husband in November 2016 and killed her son on last year's Christmas Eve.

 

In her interview with the punch she said that they were at home with the children chatting when they heard gunshots. They thought the shooting was taking place in a neighbouring community. She was at home while her husband was at the village square with the village head. Two of her children who were with him at the village square suddenly rushed home in tears to tell her that her husband and the village head were gunned down. They said the assailants wore soldier in uniforms. They told me that those at the village square thought the gunmen were real soldiers who were assigned to the community to keep peace. 

MEET MISS NIGER DELTA PEACE CULTURAL PAGEANT 2017

 

Miss Iniobong Okon, a 400 level student of Ebonyi State University won the 16th edition of Miss Niger Delta Peace Cultural Pageant which held at Ibom Hall, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

In her statement she said "I am very grateful to God and my parents for their support. I will, during my reign, impact positively on the lives of people in the region and be a good ambassador of the organization."