RIOT IN OKO POLYTHECNIC.

Two students were yesterday feared dead after masquerades in Oko community allegedly attacked students of the Federal Polytechnic Oko, Anambra state in their hostels outside the campus.

However, students of the school, Monday morning took to the streets to protest the alleged killing. According to an eyewitness, the masquerades attacked the students in their off-campus hostels also called ‘lodges’ located in the community.The source who pleaded anonymity said, two students died in the attack while many others were injured. And they are taken to the hospital.

Confirming the incident in a telephone and television interview, the Rector of institution, Onitsha have been deployed to the area to maintain law and order.

According to him, “seven students sustained varying degrees of injury and they have been treated and discharged.”

On the alleged setting ablaze, the home of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme, the Rector described it as untrue. “I spoke with the Igwe of this community now and he said nothing of such happened”.

Professor Godwin Onu said there was a clash between students and youths after the masquerades’ attack but stated that no death has been reported so far.

He disclosed that the School Management and the leaders of the community are leaving no stone unturned in order to calm the volient, adding that Mobile policemen from Awka and soldiers from 

IKEMBA DIM ODUMEGWU OJUKWU BURIAL CELEMONY

PhotoNews: President Jonathan at Dim IKemba Ojukwu

PresidIKEMBA DIM ODUMEGWU OJUKWU BURIAL CELEMONYent Jonathan said that the achievements that set Ojukwu apart and which had made him  subject of “edifying posthumous commentaries”, though undeniably solid were far from personal.  “They were solid altruistic achievements of a man whose life epitomized love and self sacrifice.  For only such love could explain  his preference for the great risk involved in the leadership role he assumed in his lifetime to the privileged background into which he was born,” he said. Recalling how Ojukwu sailed to leadership limelight and how “he reluctantly accepted the role that perhaps most critically defined his place in the history of our country”, the president also noted how the late Biafran leader, “despite his reluctances, he acquitted himself quite historically, heroically while fulfilling that role, not withstanding the difficult odds that stood against his side” during the civil war. “We are also aware of how after the dust of hostilities had settled, he became strong advocate of a united Nigeria.  All these governed by the same ideals of justice and fairness to all which were the hallmark of his vision as a patriot of humanists,” the president said."  -  Vanguard