Lerabari's Blog

Weekend Humour  How many Nigerians know how to use a fire extinguisher?  Something pretty interesting happened today while I was heading home (as usual). I sat in a cab at Rumuola Junction, waiting for it to get filled. The sun was high and scorching hot, when one of the roadside fruit sellers started shouting, "Leave my cucumber! Leave my cucumber!!"   I turned to look at what was happening and there was another woman removing some cucumbers from a paint bucket just by the road. She succeeded and started off with the bucket which obviously had some content in it. At first, I thought it was the usual Urban Development guys at it again, trying to chase street traders and all. Looking at where she was heading, my eyes caught a man standing in front of his car with the bonnet open. Alas, there was a huge flame of fire in the bonnet and the man was at a loss for what to do. The woman with the bucket which apparently had water got close to the car and ...

Figures of rescued passengers from an 18-seater bus hijacked at Omerelu-Elele-Owerri road seem to be conflicting, as authorities give different figures. As you may know, an 18-seater bus conveying passengers from Abuja to Port Harcourt was diverted into a forest within Omerelu-Elele-Owerri road by unknown gunmen on Thursday. Some survivors of this particular incident say they ran into some hoodlums just after a security checkpoint on the road and were taken into the bush where they sighted some other kidnapped victims. According to one of those rescued, the gunmen were kind enough to feed them with ‘fufu’ and soup. Meanwhile, Chairman of Ikwerre Local Government Area where the incident occurred, Samuel Nwanosike, told newsmen that fifteen (15) passengers in the 18-seater bus hijacked along Omerelu-Elele-Owerri road have been rescued. He said the passengers included, thirteen (13) adults and two (2) children - about five years old. According to him, the bus was also rec...

Besides the boat accident which claimed the life of tragic-hero, Joe Blankson, on July 28, 2018, there have been reports of about two separate accidents on the waterways in Rivers State. One worthy of mention happened on Sunday, August 5, 2018 and took the lives of two children who were declared missing after the accident. Tragically, the children who were initially three in number are siblings. One of them was found not too long after the accident occurred on the Okrika-Marine Base waterway, rushed to the hospital and resuscitated. The other two were found on Tuesday, two days after the accident happened. Their distraught father, Henry Amamina said the children were buried by the river bank, stating that he couldn’t hold anyone responsible for their death because they are already gone. The girls, Destiny and Ngowari Amamina, six and four years old were on the boat with their mother and other sister.  Mr Amamina claimed his daughters did not have on life jackets, ...

                                        Rivers State Police Command has got its hands full with investigations, following recent deaths and killings in the state. Within the space of two weeks, there has been stories of accidents and murders that are begging for details and facts, to paint a clearer picture of what led to them.                                                        Late Joe Blankson and family First is the boat accident which occurred on the 28 of July, with reports of one person losing his life, ta...

A woman who hails from Delta State has reportedly died from a fire outbreak that occurred in Rumuosi community, Rivers State. Reports have it that the fire started from a candle flame which ignited her room. Some neighbours said they noticed heavy smoke from her one-bedroom apartment around 1am and made efforts to assist in putting out the fire. Unfortunately, she was found dead after they had succeeded in quenching the fire. Neighbours said the woman who is married to an Ikwerre man returned from her home state - Delta- yesterday, without her daughter, whom they say may have stayed back since schools are on holiday.  Her husband was said to have been away for a church vigil when the incident occurred and has since been invited by the Police for questioning.