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Sad! Sea Pirates Allegedly Kill Four Naval Officers In Ondo Community
A tragic incident occurred at Gagira, a suburb of the Awoye coastal community in Ilaje LGA of Ondo State. The 4-Nigerian Naval Officers were killed by pirates over the the weekend as
So, the officers died during gunfire with the pirates after kidnapping three foreigners.
However, the authorities have deployed naval personnel to the community in search of the pirates and the riffles of the killed officers.
Therefore, curfew has been imposed on the community. So, effort to recover the stolen rifles of the killed officers is underway, disclosed Commodore Danjuma Ndanusa
Besides, he said that one of the arrested sea pirates disclosed that the rifles are in the area.
The Commanding officer said;
“We intimated them on what is at stake. It is like sleeping on a time bomb. I told all the Baales (village heads) to get all their youths and speak with them.
“That was why we did a total search and we found four telephones and one walkie-talkie belonging to the foreigners. I made this known to the four Baales from the community
"We also searched the boat they came with from Bayelsa State; we were able to recover empty magazines from guns on the floor of their boat.
We place a curfew on the four communities and the activities on the waterway by putting pressure on them to produce the arms because it is a threat to the innocent people in the community."
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
