The Police Command in Borno said on Sunday that it had arrested a driver, Malam Modu Mustapha, suspected to be purchasing fuel and food items for Boko Haram insurgents.|
Mr Damian Chukwu, the Commissioner of Police in the state, said this in Maiduguri that the suspect was arrested after a tip-off by members of the public.
“The Police have received information that one Modu Mustapha of Jumptilo village was a terrorists’ collaborator, who buys fuel and food for them, at Alagarno and other hideout.
“The Police descended on the suspect, who has confessed to the crime,’’ he said.
Wladimir Klitschko who yesterday lost to Anthony Joshua in their World Heavyweight boxing title fight has revealed that he didn’t expect his opponent to get up after he knocked him down.
The Ukrainian sent Joshua crashing in the sixth round before succumbing to his firepower in the eleventh.
Speaking in an interview with BBC, Klitschko said “I thought he wouldn’t get up but he managed to get up, and from that moment I kind of felt that he was out of gas and concentration and he recovered through the rounds.
My former youth ministry professor at Colorado Christian University, R.J. Koerper, used to say to our college class, “Everyone is looking for security and significance. Both are found in Jesus.”
Amen!
And this is exactly what teenagers are looking for in their own lives. Many are looking for security in temporary human relationships. They look to friends (including online ones) and family to fill the gap in their souls. But this is not enough. Only a relationship with God can fully fill the abyss of hopelessness that is in the center of every human heart. As Blaise Pascal once said, “There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.”
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has criticised some of the claims in the book ‘Against The Run Of Play’ which was written by the Chairman of Thisday’s Editorial Board, Mr. Segun Adeniyi.
According to Jonathan, the book as presented contains distorted claims on the 2015 presidential election by many of the respondents.
He said that at the right time, the main characters in the elections, including himself, would come out with a true account of what transpired either in major interviews or books.
A statement issued by the Press and Public Affairs Officer of the British High Commission in Nigeria, Mr. Joe Abuku says that President Muhammadu Buhari won the election with the backing of majority of Nigerians.
Britain insists that the only role it played in the election was the engagement with Nigerians and their leaders prior to the elections to make it non-violent, free and fair.
Former President Jonathan had in a book: “Against The Run Of Play,” written by the Chairman of the Editorial Board of Thisday Newspaper, Olusegun Adeniyi, alleged that former British Prime Minister, David Cameron, connived with former United States President Barack Obama, among other world leaders, to push him out of office.
Gombe State Commissioner of Health, Dr Kennedy Ishaya on Friday cautioned against any act capable of reducing the population of cats in the state, saying they help in the fight against lassa fever.
Speaking to newsmen shortly after a meeting of the state Rapid Response Team on Epidemics, the commissioner described cats as natural allies in the fight against lassa fever, as such should be protected.
He said the meeting focused on four health issues which were of threat to human lives, namely CSM, Measles, Lassa fever and Polio.
According to him, cats are natural predators of rats, the carriers of lassa fever, as such dependable means of reducing the rat population in the state.
Cat chasing rat
“People should stop killing cats as they are natural predator of rats and we are all aware that rats cause Lassa fever,” he said.
Ishaya also revealed plans by his ministry to commence vaccination of children below the age of six, to protect them against Cerebral Spinal Meningitis (CSM).
He said they decided to focus on that particular age group because they were the most vulnerable whenever there was outbreak of communicable diseases.
“Rainy season is fast approaching and usually CSM is associated with winds.
“Although we have not recorded any CSM case in Gombe state, we want to take precautions,” he said.
The commissioner said the state government was exploring the possibility of establishing laboratory in Gombe for screening of suspected cases instead of taking samples to Lagos.
