The bodies of at least 33 people, some children, have been recovered after an overloaded boat capsized in the Niger River in north-western Nigeria. Emergency officials say they managed to rescue 84 people on board, but another 30 of the total 150 passengers remained unaccounted for. The accident happened on Wednesday morning in the remote area of Lolo village, in Nigeria's Kebbi state, but details only first started emerging on Friday. The boat had been carrying traders across the border from Gaya, in the Dosso region of Niger. They were planning to attend a village market in Nigeria. A co-ordinator for Nigeria's National Emergency Management (NEMA), Suleiman Mohammed Karim, told AFP news agency that the boat had a capacity of 70 passengers but survivors said 150 people plus their goods were on board. Referring to the remaining missing, he said: "Having spent two days on the water, we presume they are all dead."
Russian officials and Orthodox priests on Tuesday unveiled a statue in Moscow of inventor Mikhail Kalashnikov, whose iconic AK-47 assault rifle has claimed countless lives worldwide. Culture minister Vladimir Medinsky praised the inventor and called the rifle — which has been reproduced an estimated 100 million times worldwide — a “cultural brand for Russia.” Kalashnikov had “the best traits of a Russian: an extraordinary natural gift, simplicity, integrity,” Medinsky said. Born in a Siberian village in 1919, Mikhail Kalashnikov died in December 2013 in Izhevsk, the capital of the Russian republic of Udmurtia, where he lived. Six months before his death he wrote to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, expressing regret for his role in making the world’s most commonly used rifle. “My spiritual pain is unbearable,” he wrote in the letter which was later published in the Izvestia newspaper.
ENUGU- STAKEHOLDERS of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu state have resolved to adopt Direct primaries in the conduct of its election for emergence of party’s flag bearers for the forthcoming elections. The decision was taken, weekend, when stakeholders and prospective candidates of the party met in Enugu to arrive at consensus on the method of primary election for the party in the state. Among the party members who attended the meeting were the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama; Former Senate President, Ken Nnamani; Senator Ayogu Eze, Chief Gbazuagu Nweke Gbazuagu, APC factional state Chairman, Deacon Okey Ogbodo, among many aspirants for different positions in the state. Leaders of the party in Enugu state and minister for foreign affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama who briefed newsmen after the meeting said another meeting of the elders of the party will hold to validate their position on the choice of direct primaries and also to dismantle the two existing faction...
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