* Vice President Promises Government Unrelenting Effort Against Corruption
* Borno State Deputy Governor is Dead.
* Former President Obasanjo Narrates how he Cheated Death 12 Times
* Update on Lagos Crashed Helicopter - Black Box Found.
On the Foreign Scene
* At least 40 Migrants die in Mediterranean: Italy navy
Vice President Promises Government Unrelenting Effort Against Corruption.
The federal government will not relent in its fight to root out corruption in Nigeria, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, Punch reports.
The vice president made the statement yesterday while speaking with some journalists at the burial ceremony of a member of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, the late Mrs. Janet Oladoye, in Ilara-Mokin, Ondo state.
Borno State Deputy Governor is Dead.
There are reports of the death of the deputy governor of Borno State, Zannah Mustapha, who died in his sleep 15th of August (Saturday) morning. This was made known in a statement signed by Alhaji Usman Shuwa, the Secretary to the State Government in Maiduguri.
“It is with deep sense of utter shock and disbelief but with complete submission to the will of the Almighty Allah that the Borno Government hereby announces the passing away of Alhaji Zannah Umar Mustapha, the Deputy Governor.
“He died in his sleep this morning (Saturday) in Yola, Adamawa, where he was to represent Borno Government at the convocation ceremony of Modibbo Adama University of Science and Technology, Yola.
“He was also scheduled to follow up on his earlier visit to Yola, in connection with the welfare of Borno citizens internally displaced as a result of the Boko Haram insurgency.
“His remains would be brought to Maiduguri for funeral at the Government House, Maiduguri, at 4p.m. Saturday, Aug. 15, the statement read.
It also quoted Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno as expressing his heart felt condolence to the family of the
Deputy Governor and the entire people of Borno for the irreparable loss. Shettima appealed for prayers for the repose of the soul of the late Deputy Governor.
Former President Obasanjo Narrates how he Cheated Death 12 Times
The former president in his much controversial autobiography, “My Watch”, narrated how he escaped death 12 times. He gave a vivid explanation of how he survived infant mortality that consumed all but one of his siblings, how local herbs and concoction helped kept him alive after a life-threatening scorpion bite, and how he almost perished in the Ogun River while learning to swim.
Update on Lagos Crashed Helicopter - Black Box Found.
The black box of the Bristow helicopter which crashed in the Lagos lagoon, containing the voice of the helicopter pilot and flight data recorders has been found as announced by the Accident Investigation Bureau on Friday.
The announcement was made by the Commissioner of the Accident Investigation Bureau, Felix Abali, while displaying the two devices to aviation correspondents at the Bureau’s headquarters in Lagos.
Six people on the helicopter died and six others were injured during the crash. Among the dead were the pilot and the co-pilot, whose bodies were recovered on Thursday.
The cause of the crash is still unknown.
On the Foreign Scene
At least 40 Migrants die in Mediterranean: Italy navy
ROME, Aug 15 (Reuters) - At least 40 migrants have died after apparently getting trapped and suffocating in the water-logged hold of a boat in the Mediterranean, the Italian navy said on Saturday.
The victims are thought to have suffocated after inhaling fumes from fuel after the boat took on water in the hold, the captain of the navy ship leading the rescue said on Italian state television.
Commander Massimo Tozzi, speaking from the ship, said that when his men boarded the migrant boat they found the dead in the hold "immersed in water, fuel and human excrement".
Tozzi said his ship, the Cigala Fulgosi, had taken on more than 300 survivors, including women and children.
Last Tuesday, up to 50 migrants went missing when a large rubber dinghy sank in the Mediterranean Sea. Nearly 2,000 have been picked up this week.
Around 200 migrants were presumed killed earlier this month off the coast of Libya when their boat capsized
The Mediterranean has become the world's most deadly crossing point for migrants.
More than 2,000 people fleeing war and poverty have died this year in attempts to reach Europe by boat, compared with 3,279 deaths during the whole of last year, the International Organization for Migration said last week.
People smugglers, mostly based in lawless Libya and charging thousands of dollars for passage, have sent more than 100,000 migrants by sea to Italy so far this year, according to an Interior Ministry tally. Italy took in 170,000 in 2014.
Source: Reuters.
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Borno Government on Saturday announced the death of its Deputy
Governor, Alhaji Zannah Umar Mustapha - See more at:
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The
Borno Government on Saturday announced the death of its Deputy
Governor, Alhaji Zannah Umar Mustapha - See more at:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/08/deputy-governor-died-in-his-sleep-borno-govt/#sthash.imjof81f.dpuf
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