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QUick Read NDLEA destroys Indian hemp fa rm in Benue
Tuesday, August 14,2012
Bombings, kidnappings, expression of injustice - ASUU From TOIlyAdibe. Enugu
regrening that In spilt oflhe high budgetary aUo-
From Hope/bal>. Ua"vrdl
lessncss, and decreasi.ng acem to education and other indica of underdevdopmmt now characterize our natioml life~ he said The academic union disagrmI willi lhoseach'l)C2l.· ing for a Sovrnfgn Nmonal Confermc.e. SZ)ing w/w the nation nmkd was a change of attitude on the part into criminal activities. ofits leaden. "The spate of ins«urity in the country has -sovereign National Conf~ ha$ ~w continued unabated. On daily basis, the news- ....-orko:I anywhere; the R«1l1 example is that of stands are awash \'lith rrpons ortxxnbings.ldd. Sudan; evt'fl though the South Sudan has gaiMd nappings. assusinalions, armed robberies, arson. independma. peacehas not mumcd in that place; and rdakd acts of violence perpetuated against so the fundamm.tal issues of corruption and loot· the Nigerian people and foreigners a1ikr.. ing of public fund should be addrcs.sed; he said. -Thm are also reports of spir21 inlb.tion and He equally challenged the federal gmwnmmt phenommal increase in commodity prias lead· . on the full implcmOlbtion of the 2012 bodgft. $I)" Ing 10 food Inscauity and reductioo in Randard ~ ing budget pllitidzation would not augur ",'til for the of living across the country. JoblCSSl'lCS5, hotM~try. cation on security. bombings. kidnappings and
THE Acadnnic Staff Union of Unh'enities T HE Benlle :;tate. police com· (ASUU)has lashtdout atthtfeder2lgo'o~mmmt mand in a.uaboration with . for Its ptrcci...cd fail~ to addcess the country's Nation~ Dru~ Law Enforcement s«urity probltmS and other aiminal vices, par-. Agency(NDUiA) h:u des troyed a licularly the Boko Hanun insurgency. large portion e,f wttd cultivatJon Briefmg reporters &hartly at the end of its suspected to te an Indian hemp National Executive Council meeting held at farm in Logo leal goyernment the UniveBity 0( Nigeria. Nsukla. )'eSterday. area of the slate. T he agencys its National President Dr. Nasir lsa Fagge saki Deputy Publir P.eialions Officer the ins«urity problem across the nation was an for the Slate, A~P Alarlbe Ejike, expression of people's anger over high leYd of said the fum w~ estimated to injustice against the masses. hunger. dtprivations co... er about three hectares of and failure of government to lackie conuption. land. ThedestnJ:tionofthcfann. Hech<llkngcd all timor gm"ttIlJllmt to make according to him, had already security and "~are of tht masses a priority, commenced ..... hlle.the suspected farmers had dso peen arrested ilJld are being inle"ftlgatM by the iluthorities cOIICl:med.
armed robbny had become a daily oc::rutmlCl". TIle union also said the spiral incRasc in the prices of cs:s:cntial commodities, low 5W1dard of living and joblessness had pushed many dtizcm
Village heads crushed tip death ' in Niger FromAliyuM, H,lIJ'agam,Minna TH Et village a nJ yard hearu of ' Disanti. a co rrrru~_lty In Katcha local go\'e mmen l Irea of Niger Siale, were }oe, tl rday crushed to death by a \-d iele along Minna· Bida rold TIle ~'O tradilio nal rulers. Jibnn B lbankaka Ind Baba t.'luhamm:ld. Dle~ th eir death while coming bad!.: from a LI~ day flda'u pra{er in a neighborIng commun ity A witness said tht deceas:d '~~on a moton:yde when a pid:u-, \'an 105t control and ran on to Ll lem,llherebykillilig all oflhem insta.ltlY, Niger Police Public Rehtiom: Orticer (PPRO) DSP Phu Edobc' r confirmed the jncidenl
6,000 ba9:i of fertilizer~; allocated
to farmers in Jigawa
Jos tanker drivers protest over STF's assault on colleague h om Umi~&~ Ibnhim.Jos
THE /igJwa@o\'er;n menl rester· day said il hall "0 rar distributed 6.000 tones of ffrtiliurs to farm ers to comp\~Ient Ihe federal gm'trnments t-wallet fertiliters scheme. lne st.1te·~ CJmmissioner for Agriculture, lji Rabiu isa. who madt the an/louncemenl in an intervie\" in C>u~, said the slate go\1:rnmtnt Hac spe:nt N709 mil lion on the IlfOC\1n!:ment of the commodity for distribution 10 fumers this qu,lping season, He said tfle commodity was distributed Id f, .rmers wbo were nOllble to pJrticipate in the fede~ govunmeds e-wallet ferti liurs scheme. ~Some 4.1 I!. metric tones of the commodity were distributed before the apvaJ or the federal govemment's omslgnmenl The gesture is to t;)l:lp1emenl Federal Go\'emm~ot:, fcrOrt in ensuring l"Iilability ofth :commodityand encourage pnlduClivity; lsa said. (NAN) I ,
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HUNDREDS of proteslm mostiy tanker driYa'S )'cstr:rday blockM los Nangu~ junction leading to Bauchi aJkr a tanka drivu was assaulted by members of tht Spe' cia! Task Foret: (STF) at I nearby checkpoinl II was learnt that the victim. an .dderly man in his fifties. had a misunderstanding with the STF operaliYuat the chedcpotnt O\'t:r N 100. A witness said he saw an m opera-
ti'"e beating the Yictim before he slumpl.'ll and was rushed to il hos· pital. Another witness said he saw a man in I miUtary uniforn1 around Bauchi junction beating the yicl im but could not say Whll led to the misunderstanding. Shortly afttr the Incident, angry protesters took OYer the stree ts on the assumption th at the victim had died on "his way to tht hospital The protesters, it was learnt, used I lrailer to bloclt th~ road
linking J05 10 Bauchi for rour ~ours bringing lraffic 10 a hall l Malam Aliyu Inuwa likl!, who was stranded al the junction, said al was p~ing by when I noticed Lile road was bloc.ktd and there ",-ereangryprotesters~here.~
TIke, who said the junction
was blocked for four hours, said the -sTF .srctor commander came 10 the area in two Hilux vans with the victim in one of the \'ehkles. We saw the victim with a syringe attached to his wrist and he waved
10 us but he was looking \'ery weak." The STF Mooia and Infonna· tion Officer, uptain Mustapha, denowKed speculations thai the victim was shot by the STF. saying -I want to assure you that nobody was shot and It was not true that the soldiers at the checkpoint "-ere demanding for N I00," Mustap/u however said the victim was only beaten by the STF opentives It the checkpoinl because he refused to subj«t him· sdffor searchcs.
10 persons feared dead in road crash FI1IftI Hope Abah. Ma]udi ?..IOREthan IOpenon.s~yestcdayftareddtad to a roadacc:ident that occurred a10ng the GbokoMakurdi &pnssway in Bmue State. ThemshinYol\~atndbeiongingtoacon
struction company and an l8·seater bus "ith the insaiption ofBenue Unks Company. It was galhtted tJw Ihe pawnger bus wa.~ 011 iu way to Kano from Gboko when the Icqdatt
occurred al Liambec village near the: headquar· ters orTarb local government area. An eyewitness said more than ten persons iJled on t"espol when the bus collided with the truck with a number of others who sustained varied degrttS of inJury, Howeyer, the police in the state conrirmed that only four persons lost their lives in the accident and those who were injured had bten laken to NKST Hospital in Wannune.
But the General Manager o f the Slateowned Transport ComPilJlY, Engr.. Jobn Bili. told journalists that tilcrt' ptrsons died just as he conflrmM that be was yet to ascertain the correct figure at the time of sending this report. \\'hen conLacted, tht sKlor commander of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) for the state, Abubakar Buba, dedinM commenl on the Issue as he was said 10 haye' not }~t been
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