Alesinloye Market: Oyo govt orders full enumeration, verification of victims - ITREALMS

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The Oyo State Government has directed the Oyo State Emergency Management Agency (Oyo SEMA) to carry out a full enumeration and verification of the victims over the last Tuesday's fire incident at Alesinlonye market in Ibadan, reports ITREALMS.

This is coming as the government clarified that some 90 people and not 500 were victims of the fire incident against the report in a section of the media.

NNPC, SPDC lift Borno flood victims with US$1m - ITREALMS

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The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC JV) - Operator of the NNPC Limited, SPDC, TotalEnergies and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Joint Venture– has, announced the donation of US$1 million to support efforts to provide relief to over half a million people displaced in flood impacted communities of Borno State.

“The donation will go into the procurement and distribution of relief materials and medical supplies for displaced residents who are now in urgent need of critical aid,” said Managing Director, SPDC, and Country Chair, Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, adding that a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), local to the region with understanding of working with displaced people, will manage the distribution of the materials in collaboration with the Borno State Emergency Management Agency.

Borno: Aliko Dangote Foundation donates N1bn to Maiduguri Flood Victims

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...Presidential Committee on Flooding also donates N1bn

Chairman of Aliko Dangote Foundation (ADF) and Chairman, National Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation, Mr. Aliko Dangote, has donated a whopping sum of one billion Naira to help assuage the pains of the Maiduguri flood victims in Borno State.

The Presidential Committee on Flood Relief and Rehabilitation (PCFRR), which Dangote heads, also donated another sum of one billion naira to the cause, to help the Maiduguri victims of the flooding.

Osun food poisoning, govt orders full investigation, foots medical bills of victims - ITREALMS

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The Osun State government has ordered full investigations into the reported cases of food poisoning at St James Primary School B, Owoope Osogbo, reports ITREALMS.

The State Governor, Senator Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke directed immediate action when the matter was reported to him by the Special Adviser on O-Meal, Mrs Grace Oluwaseyi Ayodele.

Okafor gifts Awba-Ofemili flood victims - ITREALMS

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The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Eddinho Nigeria Limited, Chief (Dr.) Edmund Okafor has lifted some flood victims with donations of food items and cash in Awba-Ofemili, Awka-North Local Government Area of Anambra State, reports ITREALMS.

Chief Okafor also known as Ikemba Awba-Ofemili made distribution of the food items including some bags of rice, tubers of yam as well as cash, at the weekend in the town.

ALeP beckons FG, NEMA, Soludo to help Awba-Ofemili flood victims - ITREALMS

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The Federal Government (FG) has been beckoned upon through the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) and the Anambra State government led by Prof. Chukwuma Soludo to urgently assist flood victims in Awba-Ofemili town among others.

Awba-Ofemili is a community in Awka North Local Government Area of Anambra State and was heavily ravaged by the recent flood, sacking some villages including in Umuosite and some parts of Ege, Nkpuocha, Oka-akwu, Ngene Nkpumekwu communities to name a few.

Buhari commiserates with Benue, victims

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The President, Muhammadu Buhari has commiserated with the good people of Benue State, and the Governor Samuel Ortom over the reported killings and attack in the New Year day, reports ITRealms.

He also commiserated with several persons and condemned wanton destruction of property in Guma and Logo Local Government Areas of the state in the New Year.

The president expressed immense sadness at the wicked and callous attacks on innocent children.

Further, he assured the governor and people of the state that relevant security agencies have been directed to arrest those behind the regrettable incidents and avert future attacks.

Also, President Buhari commiserated with families of the victims and wished the injured speedy healing.

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Rescued Boko Haram victims taken to refugee camp

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Rescued Boko Haram victims have been released into the care of authorities at a refugee camp in the eastern town of Yola, an army spokesman said, reports ITRealms.

ITRealms also gathered that the 275 women and children, many of whom had bandaged heads and arms, arrived in the camp run by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday night after days on the road, travelling in pickup trucks.

Nearly 700 kidnap victims have been freed from Boko Haram's stronghold in the northeastern Sambisa Forest since Tuesday, with the latest group of 234 women and children liberated on Friday, ITRealms learnt.

"We don't have the facilities and resources to take care of these," army spokesman said. "The best organization in the country to take care of these people is NEMA."

Initial indications are that none of more than 200 schoolgirls snatched from their school dormitories in Chibok town in April 2014 were among the three groups released this week.

While Boko Haram has been kidnapping girls and women and turning them into cooks, sex slaves and human shields even before the attack on Chibok, it was that one incident that drew global attention to the six-year-old insurgency.

It is not known how many people Boko Haram has abducted, but Amnesty International estimates the insurgents, who are intent on bringing western Africa under Islamist rule, has taken more than 2,000 women and girls captive since the start of 2014, ITRealms gathered.

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iPhone most stolen mobile devices, women top victims

Half stolen mobile devices in the United Kingdom are iPhones, reports TechWorld, making it easy to resell afterwards, while women top the victims list.

According to the report, bad elements in the Britain’s capital city have been reported to have stolen 157 mobile devices on daily basis.

London’s Metropolitan Police stunned newsmen when it released the latest statistics, indicating that an astonishing 79 of which are iPhones, new statistics from

The report also added that in the six months to September 2012, a total of 56,680 mobiles were stolen from users in the city, 28,800 of which were desirable and easy-to-resell iPhones.

By the end of December, 2012, the latest month for which figures were recently released, crimes involving mobile device theft reached 9,751 for the month, mostly from young professionals between the ages of 20 and 30, with women the most likely to be targeted by thieves.

 

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