Policemen in Lagos are sleeping –IG

The Inspector-General of Police, Muhammed Abubakar, on Monday ordered the policemen attached to Lagos State Police Command to wake up from their “slumber” and ensure security and safety in the state.

Abubakar, who was reacting to the reign of terror unleashed by armed robbers on the state on Sunday, spoke at the presentation and inauguration of 114 security patrol vehicles, 40 motorcycles and other security items by Governor Babatunde Fashola.

The IG said, “It is no longer a tea party. There is no doubt that policemen in the state are sleeping. You must wake up from your slumber. “The story of yesterday (the robbery incidents) should not happen again. We must not fold our arms and allow miscreants to take over the state.

“I have ordered the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2, and the state Commissioner of Police to sit down and re-strategise and find a new way of fighting crime in Lagos.

“You have mobility, you have support, you have allowance from the state government; you must not allow people of Lagos to be terrorised by robbers. It can never be accepted anymore.”

Abubakar warned policemen in the state not to use the patrol vehicles for domestic use, saying they were meant to protect lives and property.

Actress Damilola Adegbite quits Tinsel

 

After four years of playing Telema Duke in the hit M-Net TV soap, Tinsel, Damilola Adegbite's management today announced her exit from the TV series. They didn't say why she left other than 'it was a professional career decision that had to be made' and they also didn't say if she would be replaced on Tinsel.

Despite leaving Tinsel, Damilola still plans to pursue her acting career, probably join Nollywood full time

NEMA Says More Floods Coming As 1000 Houses Destroyed In Makurdi

 

As the heavy downpour continue and rivers overflow their banks, the National Emergency Management Authority (NEMA) yesterday issued a flood alert for the immediate evacuation of all communities along the plains of River Niger.

Six states – Niger, Kogi, Kwara, Kebbi, Anambra and Delta – are at risk of imminent flooding.
The alert was issued just as Makurdi, the Benue State capital witnessed heavy flooding that destroyed over a thousand houses and displaced scores of people. Five people were declared missing in the floods.

NEMA’s alert said Jebba and Kainji dams had attained their highest water levels in 29 years and said the states at risk of imminent flood have already been notified to take necessary precautionary measures by relocating people from the flood prone areas and activate the National Contingency Plan to avert loss of lives and property.

It also said a rapid assessment team had been despatched to Kainji and Jebba to inspect the situation. 
The Makurdi floods yesterday destroyed property worth millions of naira, two weeks after the floodgates of the Lagda Dam in Cameroun were opened, killing several people and destroying several houses and farmlands in Adamawa State.

The state Ministry of Water Resources and Environment, and the State Emergency Management Agency had ordered residents of flood-prone communities to vacate the areas, but many of the inhabitants did not heed the warnings.

LEADERSHIP yesterday witnessed the victims crying out over the wanton destruction caused by the flood:  many houses and other property were submerged in the waters.
Some of the affected houses include that of the former governor of Benue State, Rev. Fr. Moses Adasu, and Kyabiz Hotel located along the Makurdi-Gboko road.