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How sales lady lost her life to Onitsha flood
By: Ikenna Oluka
A heavy downpour in the commercial city of Onitsha, Anambra State, has left the family of Nwoko in tears as their 23-year-old daughter, Chukwusom Nwoko, reportedly got drowned in a flood following a heavy downpour.
Information reaching News Express has it that the deceased was going home from work in company of two of her colleagues when the rain started and they decided to take shield in a nearby shop within Ochanja market roundabout.
The rain, which was said to have started shortly after President Muhammadu Buhari’s departure from the city on Thursday, lasted for over an hour.
According to a resident of the area, who spoke to News Express, he said that few minutes after the trio settled in front of the shop to wait for the downpour to ease, the shop owner told them to leave, saying that he wanted to close for the day.
The source who pleaded anonymity said: “The girls pleaded with him to allow them stay a little as it was still raining heavily but the man ignored them and was busy locking up his shop.”
He alleged that two of the girls left the shop in anger and crossed the deep drainage in front of the man’s shop with the aid of a plank used as a makeshift bridge.
“When the deceased girl made to cross the drainage filled with flood, the man raised the plank while she was on it and she fell into the gutter that was covered with flood because of the heavy downpour.
“On seeing that she has drowned, he briskly shut his shop and ran away before sympathisers and on-lookers who defied the rain to rescue the girl rushed to the scene,” he said.
It was however learnt that the body of Ms Nwoko was later recovered and taken to Borromeo Hospital morgue.
Speaking to journalists, the father of the girl, Mr. Ndubuisi Nwoko, accused the shop owner of killing his daughter, saying that the shop owner has absconded and is yet to be seen since after the incident.
He said: “I have lodged the matter at Fegge police station and we have gone to the mortuary where the police took photographs of the corpse.
“I want to see the killer of my daughter who was doing the work to keep herself busy while waiting to gain admission into the university.”
Confirming the incident, the Divisional Police Officer of Fegge Onitsha, Mr Garba Rabiu, said the suspect was still at large.
He said: “We are looking for the man; he has not been seen since the incident happened.”
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“80% Of Buildings In Lekki Have No Approval” – Lagos State Commissioner For Physical Planning & Urban Development Reveals
The Lagos State Commissioner for Physical Planning and Urban Development, Dr Oluyinka Olumide, has stated that 80 per cent of buildings in Ibeju Lekki have no approval.
Olumide disclosed this while speaking to newsmen recently.
In his words; “Just last week Thursday and Friday, myself and the team were in the Ibeju Lekki and Epe axis and you would agree with me that anybody passing through that corridor would see a lot of estates marked. We went there, and I can tell you that from what we saw, over 80 per cent of them do not have approval.
The procedure to get approval is first to get the planning information, as to what those areas have been zoned for. In this case, what we have is agricultural land, and people now go to their families to buy agricultural land. Of course, those lands would be sold because those families do not know the use such land would be put to.
The next thing to do is the fence permit. If you missed the earlier information on not knowing the area zoning, at the point of getting the fence permit, you would be able to detect what the area is zoned for. After that, the layout permits a large expense of land follows.”’
Olumide noted that a layout permit cannot be obtained if it is not zoned for the purpose it was designed for or for the purpose it was being requested.
“So, you can see all these layers, but people still go ahead to start advertising. Some have even gone to the extent of displaying the sizes they want to sell. Imagine someone in the diaspora who wants to send money without any knowledge. Then, no approval is eventually gotten. Even if they pass the assignment and the survey to them, we would not grant the individual permit, because that area is not zoned for that purpose’’ Olumide said
This partly explains why some of the houses are being turn down currently in the state.
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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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