Doctors in Abuja successfully remove dagger stabbed into man's skull

 

The 35-year-old commercial motorcyclist, Muhammed Kabiru, struggled on with the dagger stuck in his head till sympathizers assisted him to a hospital where the surgery was swiftly performed, The Sun reports.
Muhammed's brother, Mustapha Kabiru narrates that his brother had picked up a passenger to Masaka, a town in Nasarawa State that borders Abuja, for an agreed fare of #300.
Upon arrival at the destination, and asking for the fare, The Sun reports that the passenger brought out a dagger and stabbed Muhammed in the head and ran off. It remained in that position until doctors surgically removed it after several hours.
Mustapha, narrating how his brother survived the attack said: “Alas, my brother did not fall off the bike, but instead he rode on with the long dagger stuck in his head.”
“He was later taken to Pan Raf Hospital, Nyanya, where doctors led by one Dr. Odia and other members of staff battled to save his life, through emergency care."
According to the report, when Kabiru appeared to have stabilized, the doctors referred him to another hospital for proper management and care.
“An X-ray of the skull showed the dagger had gone in from the right side of the face just in front of the ear and was nearly poking out from the cheek on the other side,” a source at the hospital said.
Dr. Biodun Ogungbo, who was one of the consultant neurosurgeons who per­formed the surgery, shared the case through an online platform for Nigerian doctors.

Russia threatens to respond to NATO's military buildup along eastern border

Russian officials said on Wednesday that Moscow will create three new divisions to counter NATO’s planned troop buildup in Eastern Europe.
“The Defense Ministry is taking a series of measures to counter the expansion of NATO forces in direct proximity to the Russian border,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.
Shoigu said the new Russian divisions would be formed by the end of the year. Reuters, citing Russian media, reported that the Russian divisions would include about 10,000 soldiers each.
Western officials told The Wall Street Journal last week that NATO will send about 4,000 troops to Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Monday NATO was weighing a decision to place more battalions in the eastern member nations amid rising tensions between the West and Russia.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance’s planned buildup in the Baltics wouldn’t have happened if Russia didn’t insert itself into the Ukraine conflict in 2014. Stoltenberg said NATO’s deployment was a reaction to Russian aggression.
 
The announcement of heightened military measures on both sides comes after a serious of incidents in the skies and the Baltic Sea involving U.S. jets, a U.S. destroyer and Russian warplanes.
Last week, a Russian Su-27 performed a barrel roll over a U.S. spy plane in the Baltic Sea. Russia said the U.S. plane was coming too close to a military base and had its transponder turned off.
Su-27s and a military helicopter also simulated attack passes near the USS Donald Cook, flying up to 75 feet within the Navy destroyer last month in the Baltic Sea.


Speaking in Brussels on Tuesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed the alliance would deploy "batallion-sized" multinational units on a rotational basis in the east.
Andrei Kelin, a department head at Russia's Foreign Ministry, said the proposed NATO deployment was a source of concern for Moscow. Russia once held sway in eastern Europe as the Soviet-era overlord.

"This would be a very dangerous build-up of armed forces pretty close to our borders," Kelin told the Interfax news agency. "I am afraid this would require certain retaliatory measures, which the Russian Defence Ministry is already talking about."
Russia announced in January it would create three new military divisions and bring five new strategic nuclear missile regiments into service.

On Wednesday, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said the new divisions would be formed by the end of this year to counter what Moscow saw as NATO's growing strength.
Russian media, citing unnamed military sources, said the new Russian divisions would most likely be motorized rifle ones and number around 10,000 soldiers each.

"The Ministry of Defence has adopted a series of measures to counter the growing capacity of NATO forces in close proximity to the Russian borders," Shoigu said in televised comments.
The new divisions are likely to be deployed in military districts close to Russia's borders with Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland as well as Georgia and Azerbaijan.

NATO TO KEEP COURSE
"What we do is defensive, it's proportionate ... And therefore we will continue to respond," Stoltenberg said.
"There can be no doubt that what NATO does is a reaction to the Russian behavior in Ukraine. We didn't have any troops in Baltic countries ... before the illegal annexation of Crimea and Russia's destabilizing activities in eastern Ukraine."
He was speaking at news conference with NATO's new Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General Curtis Scaparrotti, who said he intended to continue NATO's response so far to what the West sees as a more assertive and muscle-flexing Russia.

Photos of Enugu locals after herdsmen attack will make you sad

The bloodbath in Ukpabi Nimbo community, Uzo-Uwani council of Enugu state on Monday, April 25, has left many villagers living in pain and despair. In a recent visit to the community, reporters and photo journalist caught up with some of the locals, who narrated the bitter story of watching the herdsmen slaughter their loved ones right there on their land. 

It was learnt that the rampaging Fulani herdsmen attacked the area killing scores of villagers, mostly farmers, and destroyed property worth millions of naira. Sources in the area had put the casualty figure at 40, even as the police was yet to give a definite figure. However, Vanguard had reported that six more bodies were recovered from the scene of the ugly incident on Wednesday, April 27, which took the death toll to 46.

The Fulani herdsmen attack comes on the heels of reports of a non-stop friction between the Farmers and herdsmen over the cattle rustling and trespassing into farmlands.

According to the reporters, many natives now live in perpetual fear and pain following the attack of the Fulani herdsmen, despite heavy security presence in the area. 

 This is quite evident in the pictures below:

 

A physical impaired Catechist shares how he had to take his family away from the community when the attack started. 


 

A woman carrying a wheel barrow and a chair at the same time, trying to locate where she can lay her head.   

 

An old woman looking unhappy 

 

A destroyed house now deserted. 

 

Kids looking sad 

 

    

 

An old man and his son looking helpless. An old man and his son looking helpless.

13 year old boy confesses he keeps guns for robbers

A 13-year-old boy was saved by the timely intervention of some officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LASTMA), from certain death as angry traders at the popular Idumota Market were bent on setting him on fire after he was caught with stealing in the market.

The young lad who is said to be the leader of a gang of street urchins terrorising traders in the market, allegedly confessed that keeps guns for senior armed robbers who collect them from him anytime they are going on an operation.
The boy who was beaten with all manners of weapon, told the traders that he was forced into stealing after his parents abandoned him.
“I was born in this market. My father and mother are also selling in the market, but they don’t cater for me. I roam about to eat and fend for myself. About 40 children sleep with me in shops at night. We wake early to leave the shops before people start coming for business.
Sometimes last year, while I was playing football with other children, some guys from Jankara area called me and gave me a gun. They  said I should help them keep the gun.
They also called one of my friends called Daniel and also gave him guns to keep. We hid the guns in our clothes.
There was a day that they took us to Agege to rob. Daniel and I kept the guns they used for the robbery operation that day. They have taken us to other places to rob too. They don’t give us anything."

Groom accidentally shot in the head In India during wedding ceremony

News reports have revealed the dilemma of a groom accidentally shot in the head during a shotgun celebration at his own wedding.

Groom accidentally shot in the head during wedding ceremony
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  The wedding which had taken place in Hissar, northern India, close to the capital, New Delhi has been called off as the groom who suffered serious injuries from the accident is expected to live.

The reports reveal that the groom, whose identified has been withheld, had suffered his fate due to a shotgun celebration misfiring.

Station House Officer (SHO), Mandeep Singh, speaking with Indian news website, ANI, said:

"We have registered a case on the basis of the statement of the injured person’s father."

The police are  now reported to have opened an investigation into the unfortunate incident which is best described as a freak accident.

5 Seattle police injured, 9 arrested after May Day marches in US

Five Seattle police injured, nine people arrested after May Day marches
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Five Seattle police officers were injured and at least nine people arrested on Sunday night, after unruly demonstrators hurled projectiles and Molotov cocktails and broke windows, authorities said.

Protesters gather every year on May 1 to focus attention on labor and immigration issues, but demonstrators in cities across the United States also used the occasion to rally against police violence.

Mayor Ed Murray blamed the "senseless violence" in Seattle on a "different crowd" from those who had attended an earlier peaceful May Day immigration march, however.

It was "deeply regrettable that in a city that goes to incredible lengths to respect First Amendment rights, there are some who disregard our values and engage in senseless acts of violence and property destruction," he said later, referring to free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution.

In posts on social media website Twitter, the Seattle police department said one officer had suffered a cut to the head as protesters hurled Molotov cocktails, another was hit by a rock, and a third officer was bitten, apparently by a protester.

Injuries suffered by two more officers were not detailed.

"Nobody has been seriously injured," police chief Kathleen O'Toole said after the unrest subsided, adding, "Once assaults started and property damage started, we took action. It's that simple."

Police said they made arrests in several places and restrained one group in a parking lot, before allowing some groups to disperse, but would maintain a presence in the area.

They charged three people with assault, one with destruction of property and five with obstruction of justice. Eight men ranging in age from about 20 to 32 were charged, along with a teen-aged girl.

Police used "blast balls" to disperse a crowd throwing rocks and bottles and breaking windows in a downtown neighborhood, the Seattle Times newspaper reported, after they used pepper spray several times to break up throngs of demonstrators.

The unrest mirrored violence at a Seattle May Day march last year, when crowds threw bottles and wrenches at police, who responded with pepper spray and flash grenades.

Sixteen people were arrested and three officers hurt in that violence, which similarly erupted after a day of peaceful demonstrations.