Boko Haram Attack Kogi state DSS office

No fewer than 30 people detained at the Kogi State office of the Directorate of State Service were freed on Friday night when it was attacked by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram sect.
This was as four people, including an anti-riot policeman, were reportedly killed in the attack by the invading insurgents.
The attackers were said to have immediately made for the cell of the DSS office located along Hassan Katsina Road, Lokoja, and released all suspects kept there after gaining entrance.
Our correspondent gathered that around 9.45pm on Friday, the gunmen with sophisticated weapons invaded the DSS office.

English Premier League table, fixtures and result.

Noteable citizen of Nigeria involved the Mecca Stamped.

A brother of the former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof. Attahiru Jega, Justice Abdulkadir Jega; another Justice of the Ilorin Division of the Court of Appeal, Justice Musa Hassan Alkali; the Emir of Zing and Ameerul-hajj of Taraba State to 2015’s hajj exercise, Abbas Ibrahim and two of his wives have been identified as being among those that died in Thursday’s stampede in Saudi Arabia, We ha learnt

Abdulkadir Jega was a judge of the Court of Appeal and also a brother to the Editor-In-Chief of Daily Trust Newspaper, Mahmud Jega.

A family source told one of our correspondents that the body of the judge, who was a member of the Kebbi State Government delegation to the 2015 Hajj, was found in a mortuary in Mina, Saudi Arabia.

This is as the death toll from the stampede has risen to 769.

English Premier league table

 Premier League

Pos		Team	P	W	D	L	GS	GA	+/-	Pts
1		Manchester City	6	5	0	1	12	2	+10	15
2		Manchester United	6	4	1	1	9	5	+4	13
3		West Ham United	6	4	0	2	13	7	+6	12
4		Leicester City	6	3	3	0	13	9	+4	12
5		Arsenal	6	3	1	2	5	5	+0	10
6		Everton	6	2	3	1	8	5	+3	9
7		Swansea City	6	2	3	1	7	5	+2	9
8		Crystal Palace	6	3	0	3	8	7	+1	9
9		Tottenham Hotspur	6	2	3	1	5	4	+1	9
10		Watford	6	2	3	1	5	5	+0	9
11		Norwich City	6	2	2	2	9	10	-1	8
12		West Bromwich Albion	6	2	2	2	4	6	-2	8
13		Liverpool	6	2	2	2	4	7	-3	8
14		AFC Bournemouth	6	2	1	3	8	9	-1	7
15		Chelsea	6	2	1	3	9	12	-3	7
16		Southampton	6	1	3	2	7	8	-1	6
17		Aston Villa	6	1	1	4	6	9	-3	4
18		Stoke City	6	0	3	3	5	9	-4	3
19		Newcastle United	6	0	2	4	3	9	-6	2
20		Sunderland	6	0	2	4	6	13	-7	2

Mob pelts Saraki, others with stones at Eid prayer

Mob on Thursday hurled water sachets and stones at a tent under which the Senate President, Bukola Saraki and some other dignitaries sat, at the Eid-el-Kabir prayer ground in Ilorin, Kwara State capital.

Amid shouts of “ole” “ole” (thief! thief!), the mob, made up mainly of youths and workers in the state, reportedly defied security operatives at the Eid-el-Kabir prayer and threw objects at the tent.

Saraki was reportedly smuggled out of the area by security operatives.

The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Sulu Gambari, who arrived at the venue at 10 am, five minutes after Saraki, reportedly met the mob hurling sachets of pure water and stones at dignitaries including the Senate President.

717 pilgrims were killed in Mecca

No fewer than on Thursday, while 863 were injured during a stampede which occurred at an Islamic event held in the city of Mina, about two miles from Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The event was one of the last rituals of the Hajj season, an annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca, which is known as “stoning the devil.”

The Thursday tragedy is the deadliest in the city since 1990 when 1,426 people died in a similar stampede. In 2006, the stampede killed 363 people, Al Jazeera reports.

According to the Civil Defence Authorities in Mina who confirmed 717 deaths in the Thursday incident, the number had been climbing steadily, despite over 4,000 workers deployed along with 220 ambulances to the scene of the disaster.

Paroxetine: Antidepressant Found to be “Ineffective and Unsafe” for Teenagers

A re-examination of a study initially published in the American Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 2001 has some worrying results to report. It turns out that paroxetine, a popular anti-depressant, is not only ineffective, but also unsafe for treating children and adolescents. The medicine also proved to increase some of the teenagers’ risk of suicidal behavior. The original trial’s findings were contradicted by a study issued in the British Medical Journal, establishing that the drug paroxetine was highly unsuitable and unsafe for treating severe depression in young people. The former drugs company SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline funded the initial study.

Android Lollipop Bug: Phones Can Be Unlocked by Typing Long Password

If you’re using a smartphone that runs Android’s Lollipop OS and you thought you’d be protect with a password, researchers at Texas University in Austin are here to give you some bad news.
According to one of their recent discoveries, there’s a bug that affects 21 percent of Android devices in use and it basically allows anyone to unlock your password-protected device by bypassing the lock screen with an extremely lengthy password. In other words, your device is prone to hacking simply because overloading the lock screen with text unlocks it.

MultiChoice, has unfolded plans to expand its content and improve on its services to millions of subscribers

Leading video entertainment service provider in Africa, MultiChoice, has unfolded plans to expand its content and improve on its services to millions of subscribers across the continent.

The Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice Africa, Tim Jacobs, made this known in a recent meeting with journalists. He said the company would continue to evaluate its pricing structures as part of its plan to fulfill the yearning of customers for a good set of quality content.

Jacobs said, “We are constantly evaluating our cost structures. As part of our business model, we need to take into account the cost of content, relative to our different audiences. There have been massive increases in the cost of content such as the English Premier League football rights, which we have been factored into our pricing.

provide free and reliable Internet services in public places across the country

Representatives of Nigerian youths, on Thursday, called on government at all levels to provide free and reliable Internet services in public places across the country. The demand was among the recommendations made in a report on a national youth survey conducted by the Centre for Micro-enterprise Development in collaboration with the Ford Foundation. It was presented in Lagos. The survey studied diverse issues concerning Nigerian youths, including their social media consumption pattern, interest in vocational skills and careers, access to education and healthcare, employment rate and many other social concerns. ADVERTISEMENT Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Centre, Edna Ishaya, said 13,000 youths drawn from all the 36 states were studied through interviews, questionnaires and other research methods.