Buhari’s son unconscious after horror power-bike crash

An air ambulance may take Yusuf out of the country any moment.

Yusuf Buhari, the son of President Muhammadu Buhari, has suffered a head injury and multiple fractures, following a power bike crash in Abuja.

Reliable sources told DAILY NIGERIAN that the crash occurred on Tuesday night when Yusuf was racing with a friend in the capital city.

“Yusuf was trying to overtake his friend when he suddenly veered off the road and skidded. He lay there unconscious for a while before the first lady was alerted,” a family source who preferred anonymity told DAILY NIGERIAN.
“She ordered that he be immediately rushed to Cedarcrest Hospital, where he is currently receiving treatment. We are more concerned about the head injury than the fractures. As I speak to you, Yusuf is unconscious.

“An air ambulance may take him out of the country any moment.”

Spokesman for the president, Femi Adesina, could not be reached for comment at the time of filing in this report.

Source: Daily Nigerian

FACEBOOK INTRODUCES SNOOZE BUTTON FOR YOU TO SILENCE ANNOYING FRIENDS.

Facebook has launched a new feature that lets you silence your most annoying friends.

The social network is rolling out Snooze, a button that stops updates from certain people from showing up in your News feed.

The feature also works for Pages and groups.

 effect is only temporary, lasting for 30 days, and any friends, pages or groups you Snooze won’t know what you’ve done.

Facebook says the feature will give you “more control” over the News Feed, “so the time [you] spend on Facebook is time well spent.”

To Snooze a person, page or group, all you need to do is click the Options button in the top-right corner of a post and select Snooze.

Facebook says you’ll be notified just before the Snooze period is about to end, and you can also reverse the setting at any time.

“We’ve heard from people that they want more options to determine what they see in News Feed and when they see it. With Snooze, you don’t have to unfollow or unfriend permanently, rather just stop seeing someone’s posts for a short period of time.”

It’s a handy new option, which is a less extreme alternative to Unfollowing friends permanently.

If you can’t access Snooze yet, it’s because the rollout process is still ongoing. Facebook says it should appear as an option for everyone before the end of the week.   

The company last week admitted that social media can be bad for you, and said it has a lot to learn.

Citing a study from UC San Diego and Yale, it said that Facebook users who clicked on four times as many links as the average person, or Liked twice as many posts, were found to have “reported worse mental health than average in a survey”.

LIBYA RETURNEES - NIGERIANS SELL NIGERIANS IN LIBYA

Following the uproar on social media over revelations that Libyan nationals are buying and selling migrants as slaves in Libya, it is learnt that Nigerians based in the country also sell their fellow countrymen.

On Thursday night, 150 migrants from mostly Edo and Delta states arrived the country aboard a Buraq Airplane at the cargo terminal of the Murtala International Airport, Lagos. It was two days after 239 migrants had also been brought into the country.

One of the returnee, a certain 26-year-old Odion Saliu, a hairdresser from Edo State, said she was kidnapped and handed over to a Nigerian, who forced her to call her mother.

According to her, her mother in Benin paid N200, 000 but she was again sold by the same Nigerian for 3,000 dinars (about N794, 000).

Saliu explained that the Nigerians spoke Pidgin English and some Nigerian languages.

She said, “When I was kidnapped with others and held for some weeks, the Arabs asked if I wanted to be taken to a Nigerian and I readily said yes. I was very happy that I was going to someone from my country. But it was a lie.

“The Nigerian they took me to lock me in a cell and told me to call my mother and ask for N60, 000. The man said he would sell me to a connection house if my family did not get the money. I called to inform my mother and the trafficker who facilitated my journey from Nigeria.
“But the trafficker spoke with them on the phone and told them the amount they demanded was too small. They increased it to N200, 000. My mother paid into an account after they provided her with the account number over the phone.

“The Nigerian said if I wanted to cross the sea, I had to pay him again. But when we got to the seaside, he sold me again.”

He said during their nine-day journey through the desert, they were sold twice by Nigerians.

According to him, when their Nigerian “burger” (trafficker) sold them to another set of Libyan traffickers at Agadez, Niger, the traffickers sold him and his wife to a Nigerian who took them to Sabha, Libya, where they were separated in different cells.

“We were made to contact our families on the phone and I had to ensure the payment of N400, 000 for my release and N300, 000 for my wife,” Anyaegbunam said.
Like others, he could only identify the Nigerians trading in their countrymen in Libya through the Nigerian languages they spoke and their accent.

“When you approach them and say, ‘Please, my brother, help me.’ They would tell you, “No brother in the jungle.”

A 25-year-old woman, Esosa Osas, who was in Libya for six months, said she also met many Nigerians selling their countrymen.

“You dare not talk to them, else they would beat you and lock you up. They sell women for 5,000 dinars and men for N4, 000 dinars. I noticed that the connection houses were also controlled by Nigerian women.”

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