Current Jos Crisis Crippled Into Kaduna, topstories update-August 31, 2011

The current Jos crisis which started earily monday morning had claimed many life , in area called Eid...about 14 persons had been reported dead and over 50 cars burnt. The attack continued today,31st August 2011 as some Hausa attack an area called abattoir in Jos town exchanging gun shots with the military men. That area had been resident of some Hausas but they have been driven away from the area . A woman was reported battered in the area. Some group of women visited area for peaceful demonstration putting on black clothings.

It has been reported today that the crisis had transcended into kaduna crisis . NigeriaTopstories is waiting to gathered the full story. Stay updated on Nigeria Top Stories. Click Here To View Previous Entry on JOS CRISIS

Drama, Confusion as WAEC Releases Conflicting Results-August 30, 2011

CANDIDATES WHO WROTE WAEC EXAMINATION( MAY/JUNE 2011) ARE ADVICE TO RE-CHECK THEIR RESULTS AGAIN

From Aisha Wakaso in Minna
There was confusion yesterday
in Minna, Niger State, as
candidates who sat for the May/
June
Senior Secondary School
Certificate Examination (SSSCE)
had two conflicting results of the
same exam released to them, in
the last two weeks, by the West
African Examinations Council
(WAEC).
The examination body had, two
weeks ago, posted on its website
results of the examination.
However, the council’s office in
Minna went ahead at the
weekend to post another set of
results which were totally
different from the earlier set
released thereby forcing the
candidates to troop to the state
WAEC office to ask questions on
the authentic result.
When the candidates discovered
the conflict in the results, which
mostly had worst grades than
the first one posted, they
gathered themselves in large
numbers and went to the state
branch of the examination body
to verify which of the two
results was authentic.
THISDAY spoke to some of the
candidates at the WAEC premises
yesterday. They said the
examination body graded some
of them on subjects they did not
register for neither did they sit
for them.
According to one of them who
craved anonymity, he had
conflicting results from
Government Secondary School,
Minna. He said in the first result,
he had “B” in two subjects, “C” in
six subjects, including English
Language and a “D” in
mathematics.
But when he went back to print
another copy of the result, he
discovered that the council had
changed the results and had
posted “B” in one subject, “C” in
three subjects, while he made
“D” in three others, an “E” and an
“F” in another subject.
Unlike his performance in the
first result that the council had
posted, the candidate recorded
C5 in English Language and D7 in
mathematics, but in the new
result, WAEC posted D7 and F9
respectively for the candidate in
the two subjects.
Another female candidate from
Government Girls Secondary
School, Minna, did not only have
her result changed, she was
given grades in two subjects she
did not sit for. Aside from this,
her grades in English Language
and mathematics were equally
different from the former result
released.
When THISDAY contacted the
Branch Controller of WAEC in
Minna on the issues raised by
the candidates, he said the
problem affected almost all the
candidates and advised that all
enquiries on the matter should
be directed to the head office of
the council.
“Please you may have to go to
our headquarters in Lagos. This
is not a local problem and there
is no branch controller in other
affected states that can talk to
you over the course of the
problem,” he said.
But on a second thought, the
controller, who declined to
disclose his name, added: “All I
can say is that, the problem has
been rectified. Candidates can go
to the cafe and re-check their
results; they will see that what
they have on our website now
tallies with the initial results
released.”

Atiku Reacts To last UN Abuja Office Bomb Attack- August 30, 2011

Tuesday, 30 August 2011
The Former Vice-President, Atiku
Abubakar, has condemned the
suicide bomb attack on the UN
office in Abuja, maintaining that
mindless violence is counter-
productive to peace and
progress.
Reacting to the latest bomb
incident in the nation’s federal
capital in a press statement, the
former vice-president noted that
indiscriminate violence against
the innocent could not solve any
problem in any society.
According to him, there was no
alternative to dialogue and
peaceful resolution of conflicts.
He explained that, as an
international institution,
committed to the peace and well-
being of humanity, the United
Nations staff should be
protected at all times rather than
being put in harm’s way for
whatever reason.
Abubakar argued that violence
against the innocent desecrated
the principle on the sanctity of
life, which had been preached by
all religions of the world.
He warned that uncontrolled
violence could paralyse the
society, thereby, undermining
the pursuit of happiness.
On the appalling new security
challenges currently confronting
Nigeria, the former vice-
president had welcomed the
involvement of international
experts to unravel the extent,
nature, dimension and global
connection to these incidents of
bomb attacks, which were
relatively new in Nigeria.
He said the seeming paralysis in
the nation’s response to these
challenges called for global
collaboration because Nigeria
was dealing with a hitherto
unknown crime of this
destructive scale.
In his words, “our security men
are not

Current Jos Crisis-topstories updates. August 29, 2011

WHAT IS THE LASTING SOLUTION TO JOS CRISIS? August 29, 2011
The recurrent Jos crisis distabilizes the activites of business men and women, and other workers in the Jos town and around the town today. Most shops were closed. The road leading to Bauchi were block and this hidden the free movement of vehicles. Most transport worker were seen packed their cars. The atmosphere were tensed and people were in panic. Most of the roads seem deserted as people ran to their residents. NigeriaTopStories gathered that the incident was triggered off as a result of the last crisis, the indigene seem to use this period of popular sala celebration coming up tomorrow and next to retaliate against what the hausas did to them in last crisis. Hause who reside close to the indigenes were prevented from going to the mosque for usual prayers during the sala. Armed minitary men and mobile policemen were deploy in the whole town to alleviate the situation.

Oil Tanker Explosion, 5 reported dead in Benue-August 29, 2011

The Oil Tanker Explosion had put everybody in panic

An oil tanker, belonging to Con
Oil Plc yesterday, exploded into
flames killing five people, while
about 20 others were in critical
condition with severe burns at
the Okpoga General hospital in
Okpokwu Local Government Area
of Benue State.
The explosion, it was gathered,
occured when some residents of
the town approached the scene
where the tanker had
overturned after skidding off
the road with fuel gushing out
from it.
Following this, the tanker was
said to have caught fire and
exploded in the process, killing
three people instantly, while two
others died at the hospital.
Chairman of the local
government area, Mr. Robert
Idoko, who was on hand
alongside the state Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman,
Dr. Emmanuel Agbo, to ascertain
the level of damage caused by
the explosion, said most of the
victims were mostly women and
children.
He described the incident as
unfortunate, adding that:
“Everybody is in shock with
what happened but we shall do
our best to ensure those who
are alive in the hospital get
adequate treatment.”
He further urged the state
government as well as other
Nigerians to come to the aid of
the victims. However, efforts to
get the state Commissioner of
Police to comment on the
incident proved abortive as he
was said to be indisposed.
Meanwhile, the lawmaker
representing the local
government area in the state
House of Assembly, Hon. Olofu
Ogwuche, has called on the
federal government to impress
on the contractor handling the
Otukpo-Enugu road to hasten the
completion of the project
because “as it is, the durability of
the Otukpo-Utonkon-Okpoga-
Ugbokolo rural road constructed
by the Governor Gabriel Suswam
administration can no more be
guaranteed.”
“All motorists coming from the
East and those from Makurdi
now use the road as a by-pass to
and from Enugu.

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And it is obvious that the design
and construction of the road did
not take cognisance of this kind
of heavy traffic and that
accounts for this kind of
unfortunate accident,” Ogwuche
said.
Also, the Vice-Chairman of the
council, Hon. Sunny Ebute, called
on the Federal Government to
speed up the repairs being
carried out on the Otukpo-Enugu
road, stressing that the contract
for the construction of the road
was awarded four years ago.