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Anambra: Osinbajo visits communities to sympathise with flood victims
By Nmerichukwu Igweamaka
The Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday visited some flood-ravaged areas of Anambra State to sympathise with the affected residents.
He assured them that the Federal Government would intervene by supplying them with food and other relief materials.
At Umueze Anam, in the Anambra West Local Government Area, the Vice-President became emotional at the sight of families evacuating their properties from their flooded homes.
He said, “I flew over those disaster areas and I witnessed the rise especially in Onitsha, Ogbaru, Awka North, Coscharis farm and other places.
“We have directed the National Emergency Management Agency to continue to deploy relief materials to the IDP Camps and some homes, where residents have refused to leave.”
While commending Governor Willie Obiano for his prompt response to the situation, Osinbajo said he would work with the Anambra State Government to ensure a proper management of the situation.
Speaking, Obiano said he had earlier visited those areas to ascertain the level of damage.
He said the flood submerged homes and farms, noting that the residents were predominantly farmers.
The traditional ruler of Aguleri, Igwe Christopher Idigo, on his part, called on the Federal Government to work with hydrologists to provide lasting solutions to the flood problems across the country by creating dams that would absorb water from River Benue and River Niger.
One of the victims, Mr Friday Ekwuoba, a farmer, described the damage caused by the flood as devastating, saying it had affected the residents’ means of livelihood. Ekwuoba, who refused to leave his home, pleaded with the Federal Government to assist them to come out from the storm.
The Anambra State Emergency Management Agency said the flood destroyed over 200 hectares of rice farm at Omor in the Ayamelum Local Government Area of Anambra.
The Executive Director of the agency, Mr Cyprian Agupugo, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Omor.
Agupugo said the major river in the area, Okpoto River, overflowed its banks, destroying the Ojagbo rice farm worth millions of naira.
The Vice-President was accompanied on the tour by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige; Delta State Governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa; the Director General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mr Mustapha Maihaja, and others. (Punch)
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Lady Dies After Friends Pushed Her Into Boiling Pot Of Fresh Pepper In Delta State
A Nigerian man identified as Israel Joe, has revealed how his friend, Roseline, died after she was pushed into a boiling pot of fresh pepper and tomatoes by her two female friends in Sapele, Delta State.
Joe stated that Roseline, a caterer, went on a trip with her friends to Sapele for a catering job where the bitter ordeal occured.
She tragically passed away on Saturday, April 13 after spending two weeks at the hospital in a very horrible state.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Joe said that before her untimely death, Roseline confided in him about two of her friends who were treating her coldly.
And he has vowed to bring them to justice.
This is such a heartbreaking event.
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IPOB Declares May 30th As Sit-at-home Day Across The Southern East States To Honour Biafran Fallen Heroes
The Indigenous People of Biafra has declared May 30, 2024, as a sit-at-home day across the South-East to celebrate Biafran soldiers.
The pro-Biafran group said that day is set aside annually to celebrate the men and women who died in the Biafran war between 1967 and 1970 and beyond and even until now.
This was made known in a press statement by the group’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, on Thursday, adding that every Biafran in the South-East is expected to sit at home and reflect on the war.
He cautioned South-East residents to avoid loitering about on this day, adding that those who intend to travel to and fro Biafra land must do so before the evening of May 29.
The IPOB statement also directed that all the residents of “Biafra Land” are to stay indoors from 6 am to 6 pm on May 30, 2024.
He also called on christians and traditionalists to pray to Chukwu okike abiama for the fallen heroes, And also for the independence of Biafra from Nigeria.
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Anambra State Government Arrests Man For Marrying Off His Underage Daughter
The Anambra State Government has arrested one Uzochukwu Okoli, for marrying off his underaged daughter.
Okoli was apprehended after his daughter reported to the State Ministry of Women and Social Welfare about the alleged ill-treatment being meted out to her by her father and the man he forced her to marry.
The daughter, Chioma Okoli, who is currently 16 years old, said after the death of her mother, her father took her and her sister out of Edo state and brought them to Anambra.
She alleged that she was first forced to live with a 70-plus-year-old man at the age of 14 but after some time, she ran back to her father’s house before he finally gave her out to a 34-year-old Chinedu Nweke as husband.
Chioma who was in the company of her sister, explained that life with Chinedu has been a living hell because he allegedly beats her and sometimes pees in her mouth.
She said this act made her run away with their 9-month-old baby. Her father, Uzochukwu Okoli, on the other hand, claimed her daughter is 18 years old and, at some point, said she is 20 years old.
After he was handcuffed, Mr Okoli threatened to deal with the daughters if he made it out of prison. He also urged Chioma and her sister to pray he dies in prison because he would make life more miserable for them.
Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Women and Social Welfare, Hon Ify Obinabo, has instructed that the case be charged to court so that the girl can get justice.
Both Mr Okoli and Chinedu Nweke were arrested and will be arraigned in court.
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