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Lagos businessman Michael Anyiam-Osigwe killed by Gunmen

Suspected armed robbers have killed a Lagos-based businessman, Mr. Michael Anyiam-Osigwe. The late Michael was until his death, the Co-ordinator General of the Osigwe Anyiam-Osigwe Foundation and a member of its Board of Trustees.

His father, Emmanuel, was reputed as one of the first Nigerian investors in the oil sector, while his sister, Peace, started the annual Africa Movie Academy Awards, AMAA.

The victim was said to be on his way to an engagement in Nkwerre, his home town in Imo State on Saturday, when suspected armed robbers attacked his car on the Ore-Benin Road.

It was gathered that he was shot in the chest during the attack.



Punch learnt that he was rushed to the EKO Hospital in Ikeja, Lagos, where he began receiving treatment for gunshot injuries. However, he was said to have given up the ghost on Sunday evening, after the doctors at the hospital tried in vain to save his life.

A statement by one of his six brothers, Charles, confirmed the incident:

“With grief and deep sense of sorrow, but with total submission to the will of the Almighty God who gives and recalls, the Anyiam-Osigwe family announces the untimely passing to eternal glory of Nze Michael Anyiam-Osigwe.

“Michael was killed by armed robbers who operated on the Ore-Benin Road, near the Okada Junction, in the afternoon of 29th November 2014 at about 2.30pm.”

He is survived by his mother, wife, Okiemute, five children, six brothers and a sister, among others.

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Meet Madam Ladi Kwali, the woman on the back of N20 note

I didn’t know the story of the image at the back of our N20 note until I stumbled on this and I must say that I’m very impressed by Madam Ladi Kwali and her exploits. Nigeria is blessed with great minds!

She is Nigeria’s best known potter who was awarded a Doctorate and was made MBE in 1963 for the level of detail and skill she utilized while making her pots.

Ladi Dosei Kwali (1925-1983) popularly known as Dr Ladi Kwali was born in 1925 in Kwali town in the present Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria. I join other well meaning Nigerians to celebrate this great woman!

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Father withdraws boy attacked by dogs from hospital against medical advice

Omonigho Abraham, the four-year-old boy who was attacked by two German shepherd dogs in the Igando area of Lagos State, has been withdrawn from the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja against medical advice..

Omonigho whose skull and scalp is exposed after the gruesome attack ,was on Friday last week, flown to an Indian hospital for treatment.The victim’s father, Mr. Odia,earlier complained his son’s condition had worsened due to negligence.

According to Punch, the hospital management had promised to take better care of Omonigho, adding that the state’s governor, Babatunde Fashola, had instructed that the government should bear all the cost of his treatment.

However, the Lagos State Government has said Omonigho’s withdrawal from the Burns and Plastics unit of LASUTH was against medical advice.The Commissioner for Health, Mr. Jide Idris, in a statement on Monday, said the victim’s father was “desperate” and rebuffed all explanations that the boy’s healing was a gradual process.

The statement read in part,

“While conservative wound management was being done in the Burns and Plastic Ward in LASUTH, the Lagos State Government set plans in motion to take Omonigho abroad for further management, where all expenses incurred would be covered by the government.His parents were informed of every step of the process, and had close and continuous contact with the Ministry of Health.After a thorough search, a suitable hospital was found that would care for the young boy. The chosen facility was the RAK Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirate.

LASUTH established a communication channel with RAK Hospital and it was determined that Omonigho would require a meshed skin graft coverage of the exposed skull for the next phase of his management.Governor Babatunde Fashola approved the funds for the management of Omonigho, which includes traveling, feeding and accommodation at the Rak Hospital in Dubai, UAE.”

The commissioner said Omonigho’s father after agreeing to all the travel plans, suddenly announced that he would fly out his son to India.He said efforts to assist in the India trip was rejected by Odia, who insisted that the Delta State Government and the NGO had decided to bear all the cost.

Idris said report from the surgical team responsible for the victim’s treatment showed that the boy’s health might be at risk if his ongoing treatment was interrupted.

“But Odia unfortunately, took the ill-advised step to leave the facility after being thoroughly counseled by the specialist,” he added.

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52 female suicide bombers commissioned to Maiduguri

There are 52 female suicide bombers on the prowl in Maiduguri, a member of the youth vigilante group has revealed.

It could be recalled that two suicide bombers were unleashed on Maiduguri last week causing the death of over 35 people.Two others were unleashed on the town this Monday causing six deaths and 36 injured people.

Speaking to Thisday Live on Monday after the two attacks on the Maiduguri Monday Mmarket, the source said the youth vigilante group had made it difficult for the insurgents to visit massive mayhem on the town with the incessant search of vehicles and people of the town.

He said:

“One of the female suicide bombers arrested revealed to them (youth vigilante) that presently in Maiduguri there are 52 female suicide bombers who have been commissioned to explode bombs at high density areas.”

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