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Mob Sets Fire Station Ablaze After Fire Destroyed Market In Oyo (VIDEO)
There was a violent protest in Akesan town, Oyo State as a popular market went up in flames early Sunday morning.
So, wares worth millions of naira were estimated to have been destroyed in the inferno. The Akesan market is popular for the sale of a wide range of food materials, clothing materials, household utensils, local artifacts, and several other things.
Although what led to the inferno is yet to be ascertained, eyewitnesses confirmed that the inferno started around 12:30 am. However, some people have attributed the incident to an electric spark. The fire service station is said to be few meters away from the market.
So, the people of the town reportedly went wild when officials on duty told them that they could not do anything to put out the inferno as there was no water in their truck.
Therefore, the mob reportedly set the fire station and the truck on ablaze in protest. However, firefighters from Ibadan had arrived at the market with a back up from Ogbomoso to put out the fire.
The NBA All-Star game has now to be called The Kobe Bryant MVP Award. NBA commissioner, Adam Silver made this announcement on Saturday 15th February.
The Kobe Bryant MVP Award will be given this Sunday at the closing of this year’s All-Star Game in Chicago. Both teams will be captained by Giannis Antetokounmpo and Lebron James respectively. Team Lebron will put on No 2 and team Giannis will put on No 24. These two numbers were worn by Gianna, Kobe’s daughter and Kobe Bryant.
Recall that Kobe won the All-Star Game MVP in 2002, 2007, 2009, and 2011. Also, he played as the youngest player to feature in the All-Star Game at 19 in 1998.
Modibbo Kawu, the DG of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has been put on suspension by President Buhari. This came following his corruption charges by the Independent Corrupt Practices, ICPC.
This development was confirmed by Armstrong Idachaba, NBC’s Director of Broadcast Monitoring. Further, the most senior director in the commission has been directed to take over from Modibbo Kawu.
Modibbo Kawu is currently facing a 12-count charge bordering on money laundering, abuse of office, and misleading a public officer with the intent of defrauding the government.
So, this contravenes Section 26 (1) (c) of the Corrupt Practices and other Related Offenses Act 2000 and punishable under Section 19 of the same Act.
Beisdes, Modibbo was first arraigned in May 2019 over the alleged misappropriation of N 2.5 billion for the digital switch-over (DSO) program of the government.
The Health Ministry in Egypt has confirmed the first case of the deadly Coronavirus. The authorities made this disclosure on Friday 14th February in a press release. They said the World Health Organization has been informed and the patient is in isolation for monitoring and treatment.
The patient’s nationality was not given. However, Egypt is the 28th country in the world to record Coronavirus and the first in Africa.
So, over 64,000 cases of the Coronavirus have been diagnosed around the world and 1,363 persons have been confirmed dead since its outbreak in Wuhan, China
