Monday 30 November 2015

LWKMD! AMan burst into flames after climbing electric pole because he was angry at girlfriend

LWKND! Man burst into flames after climbing electric pole because he was angry at girlfriend

A man in China has suffered severe burns after he climbed a utility pole and got electrocuted.

The 30-year-old man identified as Luo got into an argument with his girlfriend then got angry and decided to climb the utility pole.

As soon as he sat on top of the poles, he busted into flames and fell from the pole suffering severe burns all over his body.

Residents of Jinhua, Zhejiang shared this photo of the incident on social media

Kogi guber election: INEC confirms Yahaya Bello as APC’s choice for poll

Kogi guber election: INEC confirms Yahaya Bello as APC’s choice for polls

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has confirmed that the All Progressives Congress, APC has submitted the name of Yahaya Bello as its candidate for replacement of Abubakar Audu in the Kogi State supplementary election due for Saturday.

Nick Dazang, the INEC Deputy Director of Publicity, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja.

Dazang, however, did not disclose when the commission received the request.

Audu, the candidate of APC in the substantive election held on 21 November, had died about the time the results of the election were being announced the next day.

He was leading his closest challenger, Idris Wada, who is also the incumbent governor of the State by 41,000-vote lead before his death.

The election was declared inconclusive by INEC which also asked APC to nominate another candidate for the supplementary election to conclude the process.

But the death of Audu has thrown up a constitutional crises, with the deceased’s running mate, James Faleke claiming to be the right inheritors of the votes while APC seemed to have settled for Yahaya who came second in the APC gubernatorial primaries.

Supporters of the two contenders clashed at the Wuse, Abuja headquarters of the party on Monday as they waited for the party’s decision.

A stakeholders’ meeting being attended by Falake and Bello and other heavyweights of the party like the governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai was still ongoing as at the time of writing this story.

The party is expected to unveil Bello as its choice for replacement of Audu at the end of the meeting. The meeting is however a mere formality as Nick Dazang, the INEC Deputy Director of Publicity said on Monday that APC has already sent the name of Bello as replacement for Audu in the supplementary election.

“They have sent the name of their replacement candidate, the second runner-up in their primaries, that is Yahaya Bello, to the commission,” Dazang said.

The deputy director also told NAN that the commission was much ready to conduct both Kogi State supplementary and Bayelsa State elections, both scheduled for December 5.

Dazang said: “The commission is committed to conduct the two elections.

“That is why in respect of kogi, in spite of what happened, we came out with public notice which invites the APC to submit its replacement candidate for the election.”

Dazang said as part of the commission’s preparation for the Bayelsa State poll, INEC would be holding stakeholders’ forum in the state on Tuesday.

The deputy director added that INEC had concluded the distribution of non-sensitive materials for the Bayelsa State poll.

He also said the commission would be going to Central Bank of Nigeria to collect sensitive materials for onward distribution for the Bayelsa State election on Wednesday.

Dazang said: “After the stakeholders’ forum, the commission will immediately on Wednesday commence the distribution of sensitive materials in the state.

“We are inviting the representatives of political parties, their agents, observers, Civil Society Organisations and the media, among others, to witness the distribution of sensitive materials.”

Dazang said the commission would deploy its officers at National Commissioners and Resident Electoral Commissioners levels from neighbouring states to monitor the Bayelsa State election.

“You will agree with me that we don’t take any election for granted, no matter how small it is,” he said.

Boko Haram destroys Nigerian military base, 107 troops missing

Boko Haram destroyed a Nigerian military base as soldiers fled and only self-defense fighters prevented the insurgents from retaking a northeastern town, residents said Monday.

The civilian fighters held Gulak town after soldiers ran away Sunday night until the military sent reinforcements who fought off the extremists, former council chairman James Ularamu told The Associated Press.

The military base was burned down, said Ularamu.

Sunday night’s attack came as a military intelligence officer confirmed that 107 soldiers remain missing nearly two weeks after a Nov. 19 battle. The attackers drove off with an army T-72 tank and dozens of new camouflage uniforms, according to the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak on the issue.

Nigeria’s military has denied dozens of soldiers are missing.

Premium Times newspaper first reported the soldiers from the 157 Battalion, including their commanding officer, were missing in action along with the tank, three artillery guns and eight trucks including one carrying 60,000 rounds of ammunition.

The military has reported that it destroyed dozens of Boko Haram camps and freed more than 1,000 kidnap victims in recent weeks. But Boko Haram has stepped up the tempo and range of its attacks, with raids and suicide bombings in the past week in Niger, Cameroon and northern Nigeria.

Early Sunday the extremists kidnapped dozens of girls and set ablaze hundreds of buildings in Bam in Borno state, said resident Mallam Ali.

The setbacks come as Nigeria’s government admitted it cannot crush by December the 6-year uprising that has killed some 20,000 people.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan was not attacked - Police

The Police Public Relations Officer, Mr. Asinim Butswat, of The Bayelsa State Police Command has debunked reports that former President Jonathan was attacked in his state.

He stated that a group of hungry youths mistook a convoy of the former President for one of the governorship candidate on electioneering ahead of the December 5 election.

They followed the convoy perhaps for alms, only to discover it was that of Jonathan. When they realized this, the youths, who had followed him up to his house in Yenagoa, pulled back and ran away. Security operatives however ran after them and arrested some of them. They did not attack the convoy and no weapon was found on them.

7 Female students feared dead in Kano school dormitory fire incident

Seven female students have been confirmed dead after a fire engulfed their dormitory inside their school in Jogana village, Kano yesterday night. Eyewitnesses say the fire started at about 9pm when most of the students had gone to bed.

More than 25 of them sustained injury as they tried to flee the scene of the fire through the only two exits made available. The cause of the fire has not yet been ascertained.

Northern muslim elites laid the foundation for Boko Haram - Rev Kukah

The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah, says that the Muslim elites laid the foundation for Boko Haram in Nigeria. Kukah said this while delivering a lecture titled ‘The Muslim agenda for Nigeria: Challenges of development and good governance’, at a conference organised by the Islamic Welfare Foundation at the Fountain University, Osogbo in Osun state recently.

“A hypocritical elite continues to believe that it can claim the benefits of democracy but use it only to consolidate its hold on power. This is what has laid the foundation for what is now Boko Haram. We must locate the current crisis of Boko Haram within the context of the inability of the northern Muslim elite to live by their own dubious creed of being Muslims. They preached Sharia Law but only for the poor. They preach a religion that encourages education, yet their own people are held in the bondage of ignorance. They came to power on the basis of a democratic society but they turned around and declared Sharia to generate a false consciousness among the poor that they want a theocracy. They did not wish to live by the same standards, so they decided to live their own Islam in the capitals of the world away from the prying eyes of their own people. Boko Haram began as a revolt against this mendacity, subterfuge and hypocrisy. Now, I hear Muslims in northern Nigeria hiding under the cover of the facts by saying: ‘These Boko Haram people are not Muslims. They do not represent us’. Well, first, they are your own children. You must take responsibility for what has made them what they are today and to the rest of society. They claim they have been inspired by the Quran and no other holy book. They say they want to build an Islamic state. So, they are Muslims. After all, from the debates of the Constituent Assemblies of 1979, 1988, and 1995 and beyond, did their fathers and grandfathers not stage walkouts, demanding Sharia Law? Was it not to tame them that President Ibrahim Babangida declared what he called ‘no-go areas’ in the debates about our constitution? “The promise to institute Sharia has become the most potent tool for political mobilisation and organisation. Till date, the tactics may have changed, but the essence has not. Rather than face the tough questions of how and why over 15 million children in the northern states are on the streets; how and why the northern states are falling behind on almost every index of development, the northern Muslim elite continues to live for just the moment, with no plans for tomorrow. Should we pretend that a society that allows the forced marriages of its young daughters could frown on the idea of a group kidnapping and forcing young girls into sexual slavery? Islam must have an honest look at the mirror and have an internal discussion.”he said