And
so dearly beloved, while we were all busy rooting for BBNaija housemates and sloganizing
“based on logistics” everywhere, these are some of the many things that
happened while you were enmeshed in the
BBNaija euphoria especially in the last one week.
Last
week was a sad one for members, students, friends and family members of the
students and staff of Queens college as they bade their final ‘goodbyes’ to yet
another student Praise Sodipo, an orphan
who died as a result of the bacterial infection outbreak in the school
sometime back as she was laid to rest on Thursday. Her death made it the third
fatality recorded from the outbreak after two other students Vivian Osuiniyi
and Bithia Ituhua had died earlier even as about 1,222 students were reported
to have taken ill with about 16 others hospitalized at the time. Very sad one
indeed.
For
those who have been believing in an over-night turnaround as per the stability
of light in Nigeria, sorry to disappoint you with the unenthusiastic view from Mayowa
Adeleye ,a public affairs analyst who was reported to have written from Canada
to Nigerians stating that Nigeria cannot have 24/7 electricity supply anytime
soon as it does not have the funds to make it happen adding that the FG is
already ‘choked’ financially even as the current local investors that bought
NEPA/PHCN assists from GEJ led FG in 2013 are obviously financially handicapped
as well. Oops! There goes our hope for light in a bubble.
It
was reported that a German national Brenard Christo died after collapsing at
the Murtala Mohammed airport Lagos,
while waiting to board a local flight to Benin. He was said to have died at an
undisclosed hospital.
Once
again, EFCC was in the news also that about N448m was discovered in an abandoned
bureau d’ change shop within a plaza in Victoria Island, Lagos on Friday night.
According to reports, the Lagos state zonal office of the Economic Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) upon counting the money which was stashed in ghana must
go bags in high denominations of 500 and 1000 naira notes amounted to the sum
of N448million naira. Meanwhile the ant-graft agency is investigating the
matter in order to unravel the source and those behind it.
Good
news for all prospective JAMBITES as JAMB deemed it fit to extend UTME
registration and examination, given the high level of stress and technical
hitches which prospective candidates are undergoing at the accredited centres
and offices just to register.
Court
also remanded two MMM agents in prison over breach of trust.
Suicide
bombers didn’t want to be left out in the news as well, so they decided to attack
a mosque in Maiduguri. However the two female suicide bombers who could not
gain access into the Mosque after they were intercepted at the entrance died in
the bomb blast which occurred after one of them detonated hers, thereby injuring
five others while she and her partner died in the process.
Do
I need to talk about Apostle Suleiman’s saga? Makes no sense to many right now,
however, just a mention that Stephanie Otobo was said to have released her
statement of account in a video (though I haven’t seen it. Don’t think I will
anyway) just to drive in the nail further that the accusations over her
involvement with the Apostle is true. Nevertheless from all indications, looks
like many people have moved on from the gist thus leaving that story for those
who are not fully engaged doing anything meaningful with their lives or those
who are all out to play the game of “name and shame”.
And
in case you didn’t know, Efe, one of the housemates of the just concluded
edition of BBNaija reality show which put Nigeria in a ‘lock down’ for almost
an hour given the grand finale which took place last night, emerged the winner
and went home with a brand new SUV and a mouthwatering sum of N25million naira.
There is also news going round that a moneybag is also going to give him more
than the N25m and another SUV as well. Hmm! What a way to go especially in
these harsh times. Like someone noted, Efe is truly a guy with “Dangerous grace”.
