Today's Headlines: Be ready to rescue Nigeria, Sanusi urges youths, Bandits Attack Zamfara Community, Abduct Several Residents
Be ready to rescue Nigeria, Sanusi urges youths
Photo Credit:The Nation papers
Former Emir of Kano, Lamido Sanusi, has urged the youths to rescue the nation. .
He said this in a video that went viral on Tuesday.
The 14th Emir of Kano said: “You know, like I said in Abuja, I have my record of service, ,my father has his record of service, my grandfather has his record of service. We cannot be intimidated by somebody because you are President or you are governor and we cannot tell you that you are wrong.
“We’ve chosen different paths and I said yesterday and I’ll say it again, if I had gone into politics; at least given the people that have succeeded in becoming Presidents in Nigeria, I could have been president or I could be governor. So that I choose not go into politics does not make me a subordinate human being and this is what we all have to learn as Nigerians.
“We take too much rubbish! and we are all too afraid, too much in our comfort zones and by the time these guys finish with us our children will not have a nation and this is the real challenge that we face.”
The former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) added: “How do we standup? How do we retrieve our nation? How do we go back to that vision that we had? How do we give our children the opportunities that we have had and even better and this is the question that each of us must take with us and the only way to do it is if you are not in politics, you must hold those in politics to account. It is not a comfortable situation to be in but believe me, I’d rather, I wear… you know when people are not… when people are incompetent and they don’t like you, you wear their dislike as a badge of honour. You can’t be comfortable, you can’t be normal in a dysfunctional environment. So we must get outside our comfort zone and that is the only way to change this country.
Bandits Attack Zamfara Community, Abduct Several Residents
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Armed bandits early hours of Tuesday invaded Jan-Bako town under the Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State and kidnaped an unspecified number of people.
A resident of the town, Ahmad Janbako said the assailants attacked the community late in the night when residents were already asleep.
He said the bandits attacked the community silently from every entry point without firing a gunshot, looting shops and carting away food items and other necessities.
According to him, an unspecified number of residents, mostly women, and children, were forcefully taken away by the bandits.
“Last night, the community of Janbako town woke up in a terrible incident where armed bandits attacked the town from every corner and started looting the shops of traders and taking away food and other necessities,” Ahmad told Channels Television.
Two killed in Ogun road crashes
Two persons died in the early hours of Tuesday in two crashes along the Lagos-Ibadan highway.
Source: Daily Post Nigeria
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) said one of the crashes occurred at midnight, around Heyden Petrol Station, involving two male adults. “Unfortunately, one person was recorded dead from the crash and the second person unhurt,” the FRSC spokesperson in Ogun, Florence Okpe, told DAILY POST. Okpe said the vehicle involved was unidentified, stating that “it was a case of hit-and-run. The corpse was deposited at Idera morgue Sagamu.”
The second road crash, Okpe, said, occurred at about 04:25 am, around Tollgate on the Sagamu-Abeokuta route. Okpe disclosed that the Mack tipper truck (JBD483ZY) involved was speeding, which led to a loss of control. “The suspected cause of the lone crash was speed, which led to a loss of control, and the vehicle crashed.
Governor Oborevwori Salutes Okocha @50
Governor Sheriff Oborevwori of Delta State has congratulated multi-talented footballer, Austin Jay-Jay Okocha, who turned 50 yesterday, August 14.
Source: Leadership
Okocha, one of Africa’s best-known midfield impresarios all time, was honored with the African Legend award and the BBC African Player of the Year award in 2004 and emerged as the best player and top scorer at the African Cup of Nations finals in Tunisia in the same year. He also captained the Super Eagles at the 2002 FIFA world cup finals in Korea/Japan.
Okocha won 73 caps for the Nigeria National team between 1993 and 2006, scoring 14 goals, and was a member of three FIFA World Cup squads. Oborevwori in a statement by his chief press secretary, Sir Festus Ahon, yesterday in Asaba, said Jay-Jay Okocha was a quintessential footballer whose contributions to the development of Nigeria and world football were remarkable.
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