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Family Of UNIMAID Student, Dalep Dachiya, Killed By Boko Haram Calls For Justice
The family of the 200-level UNIMAID student, Dalep Dachiya, who was recently murdered by the Boko Haram Insurgent, has beckoned on the Nigeria Government to get the killers of their son.
Dalep was heading back to school on 9th January when he was abducted by the insurgents. A video of his killing was released yesterday 22nd January by the insurgents.
The head of the family, Pa David Dachiya, held a press conference in Jos today. He said though the family has accepted their fate and left everything to God, fishing out and dealing with the killers of their son would bring relief to the bereaved family and everyone involved.
He urged the government to intensify its effort to bring to an end the continuous attacks in Plateau State.
"As a family, we just want to thank God for everything; we believe that what happened, happened for good. But we want to strongly call on the government to fish out the killers of our son. He was just an innocent boy who was killed for no reason. We equally urge the government to intensify efforts in fighting insurgency and all forms of insecurity in the country" he said
'' This morning, we appeal to the government for action because the statement that was made in the video is quite touching. If an eight years old child can tell the whole world that they are revenging what Plateau had done to their forefathers in Borno which I don’t know apart from hearing from him, I have never heard of it.
An eight years old boy cannot say that some elderly people have incited him to do it. We are in the last days. We are not provocating anybody but our prayer as a family is that God should touch our leaders otherwise all our people from Plateau will not be able to travel to Maiduguri or Borno in general because that statement has made it known that anybody who is going there would be killed if they know that you are from Plateau.
Our appeal as a family is that the government should do something to stabilize what is happening, we pray that God will see us through.” he said
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
