NIJ STUDENT WEEK 2014

BY: BABALOLA FIKAYO

The NIJ student week which took off on the 2nd of June 2014, started with lot of performances from different artiste like korede bello,randy rondo etc..
Korede bello who is an ND2 student of NIJ,and newly joined the mavin record crew performed the song "DORO BUCCI".
While performing at the student week,invited his fellow ND 2 student to dance with him,while he was performing on the NIJ stage.
The student week finally ended with the ball night on Saturday 7 of June and everyone was happy.

Mavin Act/ Korade Bello performing at the NIJ Students' Week. Photo: Fikayo

Deadly blast in Nigerian city of jos.

An explosion in the central Nigerian city of Jos has killed at least three people in a suicide attack, police say. Police said the blast happened near an open-air TV viewing centre where people were watching the Champions League football final. No group has said it carried out the attack. However it comes days after a twin car bomb attack blamed on Boko Haram militants killed 118 people in Jos. A spokesman for Plateau state governor Jonah Jang said the latest blast happened on Bauchi Road at about 21:30 local time (20:30 GMT). Police commissioner Chris Olakpe told AFP news agency that the bomber's improvised explosive device detonated prematurely. "He died in the wake of the heinous crime. It exploded before the viewing centre because of pressure from local youths and the alertness of the local people," he added. Last month suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed a venue in Potiskum, north-east Yobe state, and shot dead two people watching the two Champions League quarter-final matches. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has previously described football and music as a Western ploy to distract Muslims from their religion. The latest attack comes five weeks after Boko Haram kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls, prompting international outrage. The UN Security Council has approved sanctions against the Islamist group.

NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT CONDEMNED BOMBINGS

President  Goodluck Jonathan. Photo: www.google.com

 BY: BABALOLA FIKAYOMI     
President Goodluck Jonathan has condemned twin bombings in the central city of Jos, in which at least 118 people were killed. Mr Jonathan said those who carried out the attack were "cruel and evil". It is feared more bodies still lie under the rubble of buildings destroyed by the explosions, which targeted a crowded market and a hospital. Nigeria has been facing a sustained campaign by the Islamist Boko Haram militant group. Last month Boko Haram abducted 200 girls from a boarding school in the north-eastern town of Chibok. The president said he was committed to fighting terrorism despite criticism that he has failed to ensure security. 'Enemies of progress' His office described Tuesday's attack as a "tragic assault on human freedom". "President Jonathan assures all Nigerians that [the] government remains fully committed to winning the war against terror and... will not be cowed by the atrocities of enemies of human progress and civilisation," it said in a statement. He announced increased measures to tackle the militants, including a multinational force around Lake Chad which comprises a battalion each from Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria. If this is once again the work of Boko Haram, it shows the Islamist extremist group's determination to expand its area of operation and prove that it can strike where it wishes, the BBC's Will Ross, in the Nigerian capital Abuja, says. The second blast in Jos came 30 minutes after the first, killing rescue workers who had rushed to the scene, which was enveloped by clouds of black smoke. "It's horrifying, terrible," said Mark Lipdo of the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian charity based in the city who said the air was heavy with the smell of burning bodies. Witnesses described a grim scene of dead and badly injured people - some with their limbs blown off - as fires were still raging out of control eight hours after the attack. Dozens of casualties were covered in grain that had been loaded in the second car bomb, witnesses said. "Firemen are still trying to put several blazes out. We believe we will find more bodies," a spokesman for the National Emergency Management Agency (Nema) said. He said the fires were being fuelled by flammable goods at the market, including rubber sandals. The regional governor's office told AFP news agency that most of the victims were women. The market and bus terminal are part of the commercial centre of Jos. Correspondents say that Nigeria is under renewed worldwide attention over its response to Boko Haram, especially given the global attention on the plight of the missing school girls.  Abuja Once again the explosions were meant to cause as many casualties as possible. Like the recent Abuja blasts, the victims are of different religions and were mainly people out on the streets struggling to earn a living. It has been almost two years since the last attack on Jos - when several churches were bombed. Those attacks were seen as an effort by Boko Haram to spark clashes between Christians and Muslims in the often volatile Middle Belt region of Nigeria. For more than 10 years this area has been the scene of violent clashes that have often been portrayed as religious conflicts even though they are rooted in competition over land, power and resources. There is, however, a risk that these latest bombings will spark reprisal clashes and religious leaders have appealed for calm. Meanwhile critics have questioned the military's tendency to use conventional tactics to fight an enemy waging a guerrilla war - they argue that "soft power" strategies could also be used. More than 2,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed this year, according to Nema, human rights and monitoring groups. Diplomats on Tuesday said Nigeria had asked a UN Security Council committee responsible for imposing sanctions against al-Qaeda-linked groups to nominate Boko Haram as a terrorist organisation. Sporadic militant attacks in Cameroon, Chad and Niger have also heightened fears of a regional war.

BRING BACK OUR GIRLS

#BRINGBACK OUR GIRLS. Photo: www.google.com

By: BABALOLA FIKAYO

Relatives of the abducted girls have received little information about the rescue effort Police in Nigeria have appealed to parents of more than 200 abducted schoolgirls to come forward with photographs of their daughters. The girls were taken from their school in Borno state by suspected Islamist militants more than two weeks ago. Borno state's police chief told  a correspondent from nij,

that the authorities needed to confirm exactly who was missing as the school records had been burned in the attack. He said it was now thought that 223 girls were still missing. The Islamist group Boko Haram has not made any response to the accusation that its fighters abducted the girls from the school in Chibok town in the middle of the night on 14 April 2014. The group, whose name means "Western education is forbidden" in the local Hausa language, has staged a wave of attacks in northern Nigeria in recent years, with an estimated 1,500 killed in the violence and subsequent security crackdown this year alone. 'Girls from several schools' Tanko Lawan, Borno state's police commissioner, said the headmistress of the school in Chibok had been working to produce a list of those believed to have been taking their final year exams. Her task had been hampered as students from surrounding areas had also come to the school to take the exams as it was believed the town was relatively safe from attack. He said current figures showed that 53 of the girls were believed to have escaped. But he added that it was difficult to know for sure, as some parents may not have informed the authorities if their daughters had returned home. "That's why we're appealing to parents to come with their photographs so that we know actually [that] these are the numbers we are dealing with," he told the Nij Hausa service. Since the kidnapping, the number of missing girls has been disputed and parents have criticised the government's search and rescue efforts. Earlier this week, a community leader in Chibok said that 230 girls were missing - a significantly higher figure than officials had been quoting - and 43 had escaped. This week protests have been held across Nigeria, calling on the government to do more to help secure their release. The girls were seized from their school late at night It is thought that the militants initially took the girls to the Sambisa forest; there have been subsequent reports they have been taken over the borders into Chad and Cameroon and possibly forced to "marry" the insurgents. Swathes of north-eastern Nigeria are, in effect, off limits to the army, allowing the militants to move the girls with impunity, says the nij's Will Ross in Abuja. A security source told Nigeria's Vanguard newspaper that four army battalions have been deployed to the area and an offensive on the forest was planned. Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for international military assistance to be offered to Nigeria in the hunt for the girls. "We could provide military help to the Nigerians to track down the whereabouts of the girls before they're dispersed throughout Africa - like air support, for example, if that was thought necessary," he told the UK's Guardian newspaper. Last week, an advisor to Nigeria's president said the government would welcome international assistance. Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau first threatened to treat captured women and girls as slaves in a video released in May 2013. It fuelled concern at the time that the group was adhering to the ancient Islamic belief that women captured during war are slaves, with whom their "masters" can have sex, correspondents say.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

FOI ACT. Photo: www.google.com

BY: BABALOLA FIKAYO

Freedom of information is a law that gives the right to access information from the federal gov. it is often described as the law that keeps citizens in the know about their gov.
It was enacted on July
4,1966 and taking effect one year later . this freedom of information provides that any person has a right enforceable in court to obtain access to federal agency records,except to the extent that such records are protected from public disclosure by one of nine exemptions or by one of three special law enforcement record exclusions. It is an extension of freedom of speech a fundamental human right recognised in thee international law which is today understood more generally as freedom of expression in any medium.

Head of 2year old boy discovered

 

 

The Ogun state Police command has recovered the head of the 2 year old boy that was killed on April 16 by suspected ritualist, Mamodu Bashir Ibrahim. Mamodu had raped the little boy's mother at uncompleted building at Ofada town in Obafemi/Owode local government area of Ogun State before killing and beheading the boy. The man was later arrested by men of the Criminal Investigation Department on April 22, he took the police team to where he hid the little boy's severed head.

 

According to the state Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Muyiwa Adejobi, who spoke with Vanguard, the head was found inside a bag in Mokola area of Ibadan of Oyo state.

"He has confessed to the crime, but still keeping some information to himself regarding those that sent him to get the commodity. The suspect took the investigation team to Mokola area of Ibadan where the head was recovered

7-Year-Old Girl Writes “Thank You” Letter To Judge Who Jailed Her Dad For Killing Her Mum

A seven-year-old girl wrote a thank you letter to the judge who jailed her dad for killing her mum.

London’s High Court was told how the youngster witnessed her father stab her mother to death.

The little girl, who cannot be named, was later found covered in blood near her mum’s body after trying to intervene, and “suffered a horrendous trauma” at the “severe loss of her beloved mother”.

Mr Justice Keehan said: “(The little girl) was not only present when her mother was killed, but she suffered injuries inflicted by her father as she bravely sought to protect her mother.

“She was found by the emergency services in the same room as her mother’s dead body. (She) was covered in blood.”

“On hearing of her father’s conviction and sentence of imprisonment she wrote a ‘thank you letter’ to the judge who presided over the criminal proceedings.”

Her father was jailed for a minimum of 10 years after admitting manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, with details of the case emerging in a written analysis by a judge sitting in the High Court’s Family Division.

Mr Justice Keehan was asked by social worker to decide about the girl’s future, and he gave approval for her to be placed in long-term foster care.