BAKKACIMA BLOG

  Military sources said  Lt General Ibrahim Attahiru   was on a trip to Kaduna when he died in an air crash with some of his aides. Efforts were on to locate the wreckage of the plane and evacuate the remains of the victims. His mission to Kaduna was said to be “official.” The Nigerian Air Force, in a statement by its Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet confirmed the crash. The statement said: “An air crash involving a @NigAirForce aircraft occurred this evening near the Kaduna International Airport. ” The cause of the crash is still being ascertained. More details soon.”

  One of the men who escaped from the Imo state Correctional Centre on Monday was set ablaze in his community on Wednesday. Angry residents of Umuawom village in Ikeduru Local Government Area caught him while allegedly threatening to kill a family member. The identity of the inmate could not be ascertained as of press time, but the information gotten says that he hailed from the nearby Ogwa community in Mbaitoli but grew up in Umuawom, his maternal home. He was said to have been involved in the kidnap of an Umuawom indigene. He was remanded for over a year. On escaping, he was said to have

  Reports says that four(4) people have died of Ebola in Guinea’s southeastern region of Nzerekore, the first resurgence of the disease in five years. One of the victims in Guinea was a nurse who fell ill in late January and was buried on February 1, National Health Security Agency chief Sakoba Keita told local media. “Among those who took part in the burial, eight people showed symptoms: diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding,” he said. “Three of them died and four others are in hospital.”