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ONE YEAR REMEMBRANCE SERVICE FOR THE LATE OLUREMI OYO
From left: Mr Vincent Oyo (husband), Mrs Okiemuote Abudiore, Mr Tolu Abudiore, Master Tolu Abudiore, Master Tobilola Abudiore, Master Kristopher Oyo, Mrs Nkem Oyo, and Mr Otome Oyo, during the one year remembrance service for Late Dame Felicia Oluremi Oyo, at St Joachim &Anne Catholic Church Ijegun, Lagos . PHOTOS; Kehinde Gbadamosi
Mr & Mrs Gbenga Ogunleye, Rector, Nigerian Institute of Journalism, NIJ.
From left: Mr Vincent Oyo, husband, Mrs Okiemuote Abudiore and Mr Tolu Abudiore.
The wedding ceremony of Vanguard Accountant's daughter The wedding ceremony between Patience Iroegbulam, Vanguard Accountant's daughter and Fidelis Anyanwu took place at the Catholic Church of Resurrection, Magodo Gra, Lagos yesterday. PHOTOS BY AKEEM SALAU
From left;Rev Anthony Oyedele; Sacred Heart Cathedral, Akure presenting wedding certificate to the newly coulpe, Mr and Mrs Fidelis Anyanwu and Mrs Stella Opara, sponsor of the wedding
From left: Mr Chinedu Anyanwu;Grooms Brother;Rep Father;Mrs Isabella Iroegbulam,Bride Mother the coulpe, Mr and Mrs Fidelis Anyanwu; Mr Samuel Iroegbulam, bride's father (Vanguard Accountant) and Mrs Victoria Anyanwu, groom's mother at the wedding.
Cross Section of Vanguard staff in a group photograph with the newly wedded couple, Mr and Mrs Fidelis Anyanwu.
The Newly Couple mr And Mrs Fidelis Anyanwu cutting their wedding cake.At the wedding ceremony between Patience Iroegbulam Vanguard Accountant Daughter and Fidelis Anyanwu.
L-r;Ms Titilayo Jolaosho,Financial Controller Vanguard Newspaper and Mrs Hellen Arowolo his PA.
How two ffemale emale bomber s, one other shatt ered Ny an bombers, shattered Nyan anyya, Kuje Continued from Page 7 acts”. The statement, signed by Acting ACP Adebisi Kolawole, Force Public Relations Officer, said, “Following the incidents the Police High Command ordered an immediate deployment of Police Explosives Ordinance Disposal Units to the scenes to prevent further destructions. “Preliminary investigations revealed the bomb blasts were carried out by two suicide bombers - a male and a female. “Meanwhile, the Inspector-General of Police has ordered massive stopand-search activities in and around the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.” Critical condition Most of the victims were rushed to the Nyanya General Hospital. A worker at the hospital told newsmen that about 18 victims were documented, and that they had been referred to the National Hospital, Abuja for further treatment. Sunday Gaius, of the Record Unit of the Nyanya General Hospital, said: “We have about 18 victims at the
Nyanya general Hospital; most of them in critical conditions were referred to the National Hospital. Most of them were having fracture, dislocation and some were serious injury.” In an interview with newsmen, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr. Linus Awute, represented by Dr Wapada Balami, who led the ministry team, appealed for calm, saying the victims had been receiving medical attention in various hospitals in the nation’s capital. The Director in-charge of Health Emergency Response and Disaster Management, Federal Ministry of Health, John Kehinde, also disclosed that “there are three corpses in Nyanya blast, but we cannot give exact figure for now, and about 20 sustained various degrees of injury.” Some of the Nyanya residents, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard, said it was a suicide bomb attack, carried out by a girl. The Youth Leader, Nyanya Community, Engr. Labaran Abdullahi Bala, said; “As at that yesterday night, I saw three corpses on the ground. “It was suicide bomber, we
saw one girl, and her body was in pieces; we suspect she was the one that carried the bomb, because she was the only one whose flesh was all over the place in pieces. We saw the head; we saw the legs and the hands separately on the ground.” National Hospital spokesperson, Dr. Tayo Haastrup, confirmed that nine dead bodies and 13 people who sustained various degrees of injury from the blasts were brought to the hospital. Haastrup said: “As at now, nine people from both the Nyanya and the Kuje bomb blasts were brought to our hospital. Also, 13 people who were brought alive with various degrees of injury are also in our hospital. “The good thing is that those who were injured are in stable health condition and are currently being treated. By Monday or so, we will open the mortuary and call people to come and identify their loved ones.” ‘Wife, grandmother dead’ Our correspondent who was at the emergency unit of the hospital yesterday morning met with a middle aged man who claimed to have lost his
wife and grandmother to the Kuje blast, leaving him with a seven-month-old baby. The baby is among those affected by the bomb blast and was receiving treatment at the National Hospital. The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory, Engr. John Obinna Chukwu, condemned in strong terms the blasts. Chukwu commiserated with Abuja people, particularly those who lost their loved ones in the incidents. In a related development, the Theatre Commander of Operation Lafiya Dole, Maj-Gen. Yusha’u Abubakar, yesterday, said, with the recovery of some property at Thursday’s Maiduguri multiple blasts, the military had to degrade Boko Haram insurgents by destroying their bomb factory houses and other property employed in “terrorists activities and insurgency” in the North East. Abubakar disclosed this in Maiduguri at the Maimalari Cantonment, while briefing newsmen on military’s renewed efforts on bringing end to the Boko Haram insurgency before the end of this year. He said the condoning and
search operations in Sajeri areas of Maiduguri blasts scenes revealed that demolition and destruction of facilities used by Boko Haram had to be promptly executed by the military and other security agencies. Saraki harps on intelligence gathering In response to the blasts, Senate President Bukola Saraki, last night, urged security agencies to step up intelligence gathering. Saraki, who condemned the incidents, however, urged Nigerians not to panic, as the renewed attacks were signs that the days of Boko Haram were numbered. In a statement from his media office, Saraki commended security agencies for their quick response to the bombings in Nyanya and Kuje, especially the prompt evacuation of the dead and the injured to medical facilities. Cowardly attacks in Abuja, elsewhere will not save Boko Haram – APC Also, last night, All Progressives Congress (APC)
strongly condemned the attacks, warning that no amount of cowardly attacks will save Boko Haram terrorists from imminent defeat. In a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the attacks, as well as other recent ones, are part of the cowardly tactics of the terrorists to focus on soft targets, after the military has succeeded in putting them on the run. It said the avowed determination of the Buhari administration to crush Boko Haram, which has seen the military recording a string of successes against the terrorists, will not be weakened by these dastardly acts that are nothing but the last kicks of a dying monster. APC appealed to Nigerians to be vigilant since Boko Haram members who have been smoked out of their strongholds may be seeking refuge elsewhere across the country. The party condoled with the families of those who were killed in the latest Abuja attacks, and wished those who were injured a speedy recovery.