How Ojukwu died in London

22 days after his 78th birthday, former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu succumbed to the cold hands of death.
The family said in a statement that their patriarch died of stroke in the Royal Berkshire Hospital, United Kingdom, in the early hours of yesterday.
The National Chairman of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA), the platform on which Ojukwu sought to become president in 2003 and 2007, and which Board of Trustees (BoT) he headed, Chief Victor Umeh, said the former warlord, passed on at about 2.30 a.m. yesterday.
Ojukwu had been flown to the London hospital almost one year ago, precisely December 23, 2010, after he suffered what doctors called “massive stroke” and went unconscious.

Pirates release Halifax oil tanker off Nigeria

Piracy has escalated in the Gulf of Guinea, prompting the UN to call for increased naval patrols.

An oil tanker seized by pirates off the coast of the Niger Delta last week has been released, officials in Nigeria say.

Sharia Favours the Rich, Claim Nigerian Rights Activists (Paging ... OWS "99 Percenters")

RFI ^ | November 24, 2011 | Rosie Collyer
Posted on Friday, November 25, 2011 1:18:24 PM by DogByte6RER
Sharia favours the rich, claim Nigerian rights activists
Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency is fuelled by their desire to see stricter Islamic law, or Sharia, in northern Nigeria. Civil rights activists have voiced their concerns that poor people would bear the brunt of a more severe form of Sharia.

Six HIV patients die after church tells them to stop taking meds because they were healed by God: report

 

VIDEO: therapy involves screaming to purge the devil, in place of drugs designed to keep HIV patients alive

BY Amanda Mikelberg
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sunday, November 27 2011, 2:58 AM

Sky News

Sky News video shows pastor of an evangelical church in England supervising a healing ceremony in which HIV patients are told they can be cured of their disease.

Sky News

Pastor at the Synagogue Church Of All Nations in London recommends HIV/AIDS patients discontinue medications because "Jesus is a healer."

BOKO HARAM: Senators in angry brawl over Jonathan

On November 16, 2011 ·

 

By InALEGWU SHaiBU

 

ABUJA — SENATORS returning from the Eid-el-Kabir holidays were, yesterday, in angry mood with President Goodluck Jonathan over the security situation in the country lamenting what they described as his inability to protect lives and property.

A bid by some senators to instigate a vote of no confidence on the President was, however, forced down by the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, who with the assistance of the Senate leadership mollified the angry senators.
Senator Mark was pushed to promise a face to face meeting with the President on the issue as a way of mollifying the anger of the senators. Senators who spoke during the closed door session to address the insecurity caused by activities of the Boko Haram group flayed what was described as the incompetence of government officials to arrest the situation.

The senators observed what they described as the extended time it was taking the government to decisively stop the killings and destruction of property through terrorist activities.

Report: Nigerian Jihadist Group Boko Haram Killed 130 Christians During Raid On Town, “Any Christian Who Couldn’t Recite Islamic Creed Was Shot”…

The slaughter continues.

DAMATURU, Nigeria, November 11 (CDN) — They stormed this town in Yobe state, northern Nigeria like a swarm of bees, and at the end of their four-hour rampage, some 150 people had been killed — at least 130 of them Christians, according to church sources.
Hundreds of people are still missing, and the destruction included the bombing of at least 10 church buildings.

Bombings: Fashola orders removal of abandoned vehicles within 14 days

By Olasunkanmi Akoni & Monsur Olowoopejo
LAGOS — In a fresh move to avert bomb blast in the state, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, issued a 14-day ultimatum to civil servants in the state to remove all abandoned and disused vehicles within and around the state secretariat and other government offices across the state.