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Police Raid Suspected Terrorists’ Camp In Imo

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Alex Enemanna
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Crack operatives of the Imo State Police Command have raided the camp of suspected terrorists in Izombe, Oguta Local Government Council of the state, killing five.

According to a statement issued on Friday by the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Michael Abattam, and made available to The Guardian, four live tortoises, arms and ammunition, army and police uniforms among others were recovered.

The statement said the officers raided the camp after diligent intelligence report, disclosing: “The Imo State Police Command’s Tactical Teams on 25/8/2022 at about 1630 hours, after diligent gathering of both technical intelligence and credible information on the clandestine activities of the suspected terrorists in Izombe, mobilised and raided the identified camp newly created by the hoodlums in Izombe community in Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State.

“The hoodlums who on sighting the police operatives engaged them in a gun battle but were overwhelmed by the superior fire power of the gallant police operatives, who positioned themselves professionally. During the fierce gun battle, the hoodlums suffered a huge casualty which resulted to them retreating, escaping into the bush with various degrees of bullet wounds.”

Abattam, disclosed the items recovered: “The operatives after dislodging the hoodlums moved in and conducted a thorough search of the camp where the some items were recovered including three English made Pump Action Guns; 118 GPMG ammunitions; 41 AK 47 live ammunition and 19 G3 ammunitions.”

Others were one cut to size locally made double barrel; one locally made double barrel; four locally made pistols; four locally made explosive devices; military uniforms; police uniforms; Biafra flags; four ESN caps; a pair of police boot; various types of hard drugs; and some police accouterments.

 

2023 Presidency: Peter Obi Now A National Project No More Igbo

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2023 Presidency: More Than 5 Governors, Other Top Leaders Working For Peter Obi – LP
Peter Obi

The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has said the presidential flag bearer of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is no longer an ‘Igbo project’.

The National Publicity Secretary of the organisation, Chief Alex Ogbonnia, said the Igbo had “exported him to the rest of Nigeria”, and added that Nigerians had “accepted and domesticated him”.

He spoke on the backdrop of the recent visit by some Igbo elders to the Sultan of Sokoto and the President-General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Muhammad Abubakar, to intensify consultation and concretise plans for a president from Igbo extraction in 2023.

The Secretary-General of Igbo Elders Consultative Forum, Prof. Charles Nwekeaku had told The PUNCH that the Igbo felt “betrayed by the Peoples Democratic Party, amongst other political parties.”

According to him, the Igbo have found another route to the 2023 presidency through Obi, who he said, had received the backing of northerners.

Reacting, Ogbonnia, in an interview with Saturday PUNCH, backed the elders.

He said, “As you must have heard, some Igbo elders are doing some consultations. We are still insisting on Igbo presidency. In the first place, if you watch the polity, you will see a lot of advocacies about Igbo presidency by Ohanaeze Ndigbo.

“We, the Igbo people, are so happy. We brought out our goods in the market and Nigerians bought them. What else do you expect us to do? We are happy. All Igbo are happy.

“Throughout last year and the year before, we have been talking about the Igbo presidency. Ohanaeze struggled to bring it to the fore. Luckily for us, Nigerians have bought it and domesticated it. Our product has been purchased.

“It is clear that the candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, is no longer an Igbo project. He is now a national project. Ohanaeze has pushed out the matter to the rest of Nigeria,” he said.

Meanwhile, the factional Chairman of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Lagos Branch, Chief Solomon Ogbonna-Aguene, said Igbo people would only vote for a candidate with the interest of the South-East region at heart.

He also advised Igbo indigenes in Lagos not to ‘put their eggs in one basket’ while trying to support a presidential candidate.

He said Ohanaeze Ndigbo in Lagos had agreed to only vote for a presidential candidate who would better the lives and change the fortunes of Ndigbo in Lagos.

Ogbonna-Aguene said, “Ndigbo in Lagos should not put their eggs in one basket. We must be mindful of what we say. Whoever you vote for should be able to change your life for the better. Also, we have to know the person with the interest of Ndigbo at heart; one who prioritises Ndigbo. That is the one we will vote for the presidency.

PUNCH

Inibehe Effiong Challenges A/Ibom CJ To Release CCTV Footage Of Court Proceedings

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Alex Enemanna
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After spending 30 days behind bars, human rights activist, Barrister Inibehe Effiong on Friday, breathe the air of freedom.

The activist lawyer looked a bit worn out with his hair and beard shaved, but remained high-spirited as he narrated experinces.

Recalling what transpired in the court on the fateful day, he asked the Chief Judge of the state, Justice Ekaette Obot to release the close circuit television camera in the court so that the lawyers would know the actual truth of the matter.

He said, “I am using this opportunity to appeal to my lordship , Justice Ekaette Obot to please release the close circuit television camera , the CCTV of that day, because I am told and aware that there is a CCTV in that court room. Let all the lawyers are when Inibehe pointed at the Chief Judge . Let them also see when Inibehe bounce the table.

“Even if I was the most insolent lawyer in Nigeria , you don’t have to scandalize my name and attribute to me the conduct that never took place in court just to justify what’s clearly unjustifiable.

“So, I am telling you is the truth. Any account outside what I am telling is a lie and it will remain a lie forever.”

Effiong ,however called for a sweeping reform of the criminal justice system, as according to him, many innocent citizens were languishing in the custodial centers for not committing offences to warrant their imprisonment.

He disclosed that he used his period in the gulag to work to ensure freedom for about 17 inmates.

He said” I can announce you that I have taken a step to secure the release of 17 inmates at the custodial center. I am doing that to also let people know that the criminal justice system in Akwa Ibom and Nigeria as a whole needs to be revisited. They are a lot of innocent people that are there.”

Abia At 31: Ikpeazu To Address State On Saturday

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Abia At 31: Ikpeazu To Address State On Saturday
Governor Okezie Ikpeazu

The Governor of Abia State, Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, will deliver a special State Broadcast to the people of Abia State to mark the 31st anniversary of the creation of the State.

Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Onyebuchi Ememanka said the broadcast will be live at 7am tomorrow, Saturday 27th August, 2022.

He advised all radio and television stations in the State to hook up to the Broadcasting Corporation of Abia State for the special broadcast.

FCT Minister Blames Street Traders, Beggars From Neighbouring States For Insecurity In Abuja

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Muhammad Bello

The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Muhammad Bello, has accused traders and beggars from neighbouring states of being behind the security breaches witnessed in the territory.

This is as the FCT Security Committee, chaired by the Minister, said it would work with the various communities to build a viable vigilante network in the rural communities, especially those prone to incidences of kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism, among others.

Represented at the meeting by the FCT Minister of State, Dr Ramotu Tijani-Aliyu, the minister also said the committee had concluded plans to launch the resuscitated G-7 Security Joint Operation in September 2022, involving states that are contagious to the FCT.

The G-7 Joint Security Operation is expected to fight crime in all the nooks and crannies of the member-states, especially the rising cases of kidnapping, banditry, and terrorism in the rural areas of the FCT and states bordering the FCT.

These were contained in a statement by Director, Information & Communication, the FCT, Muhammad Sule, on Friday.

The statement partly read, “The Security Agencies in the FCT have up their game. People who have no business being here, are being sent away.

“Some of them come under different guises such as begging, street trading, among others. They usually come from neighbouring states and are causing security breaches here. That is why we have decided to send them out.”

The FCT Police Commissioner, Sunday Babaji, said the G-7 Joint Security Operation that was being revived had received the support of sister security agencies as well as the Commissioners of Police in the member-states, who had all agreed on the need to collectively flush-out these criminals.

He revealed that the security agencies have gathered useful and actionable intelligence and would soon go after all criminals within its jurisdiction.

CBN Releases $265Million To Airlines

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ABN TV EDITOR
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Naira Redesign: Banks Get N52b Cash Deposits In Two Weeks
Godwin Emefiele

In a move to check the crisis in the country’s aviation sector, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) yesterday, released the sum of $265 million to airlines operating in the country, to settle outstanding ticket sales.

A breakdown of the figure indicates that the sum of $230 million was released as special FX intervention while another sum of $35 million was released through Retail SMIS Secondary Market Intervention Sales) auction.

Confirming the release, the Director, Corporate Communications Department at the CBN, Mr. Osita Nwanisobi, said that the Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and his team were concerned about the development and its effects the sector, travelers, as well as, the country in the comity of nations.

Mr. Nwanisobi reiterated that the CBN was not against any company repatriating its funds from the country, adding that what the bank stood for was an orderly exit for those that might be interested in doing so.

With the release of the funds, it is expected that operators and travelers would heave huge sighs of relief.

Some airlines had threatened to withdraw their services in the face of unremitted funds for the outstanding sale of tickets in the country.

Abia CP Decorates Newly Promoted Police Officers, Tasks Them On Discipline, Good Conduct (Photos)

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Abia CP Decorates Newly Promoted Police Officers, Tasks Them On Discipline, Good Conduct (Photos)

The Commissioner of Police Abia State command, CP Janet Agbede has decorated the newly promoted officers of the command who were elevated from the rank of Deputy Superintendents to Superintendents of police, ABN TV reports.

Abia CP Decorates Newly Promoted Police Officers, Tasks Them On Discipline, Good Conduct (Photos)

At the decoration ceremony at the command headquarters on Friday, CP Agbede urged the officers to be up and doing and not to disappoint the Police Service Commission and the Force who deemed them worthy of the promotion.

She said “I congratulate them and appreciate God for their lives, I thank our able IGP for counting them worthy to be promoted and as they are promoted they have been given an additional rank which means that they have to buckle up and make sure that they don’t disappoint the job and the IGP for being promoted, it is an encouragement to do more.

READ ALSO: We Have Not Commenced 2022 Recruitment – Police

“Some of them might be given a higher duty post because of the higher rank and much will be expected from them, they should try as much as possible to see that they don’t disappoint themselves and disappoint the job I wish them well in their future deployments”.

Names of the newly promoted officers are;
Haruna Godiya
Leonard Onah
Osondu O.
Obetet
Ogbonna A.E
Olufemi Ojo R.
Bonayentune Ozoacu
Sunday Ahaluonu
Jampi Wadianu
Paul Daniel
Thomas I
M.A. Leo
Etim Sunday
Joseph A.C
Nwannkwo B.E
Nseàntip N.U
Michael Akwube
Eze I Agatha
Francis Osazuwa
E.O Abuwa

One of the newly promoted officers, SP Haruna Godiya speaking on behalf of colleagues said “I am the most excited person in the whole world today because I have been elevated from my former position to the next one.

“Police have a primary duty to perform among them, the major one is the protection of lives and properties. I promise on behalf of myself and my colleagues that were promoted at the same time that we will try our possible best to do the needful”.

2023: Atiku, Tinubu, Others Made Wike Political HERO By Chasing Him Up And Down – Bakare

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2023: APC Will Be Doomed If President Buhari Allows Free, Fair Elections – Gov Wike
Governor Nyesom Wike

Alhaji Ahmed Bakare, a public commentator, has berated the former vice president and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) flag bearer, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, and the presidential candidate of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, for making Nyesom Wike a political hero.

In an exclusive interview with DAILY POST in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital, Alhaji Bakare lamented that the Rivers State Governor had been made the doyen of Nigeria’s politics because of the two cabals chasing him everywhere in the name of joining their camps.

He said that the two old brigades and their associates have been following Wike, begging him to form an alliance with them as if Wike is all and all in Nigeria’s politics.

“Atiku has already forgotten that he once told the whole world that with or without Wike and Rivers State, he could still win election, then why is he chasing him everywhere,” he added.

“Apart from Atiku, Tinubu, and their associates, the media also contributed in building Wike’s political dynasty in Nigeria because everything about Wike always appears on the front pages of our national dailies.

“One thing they don’t know is that wike being the Governor of Rivers State has no constitutional power to force anybody to vote against his or her conscience.

READ ALSO: Atiku Finally Meets Wike In London

“He has just one vote and he Wike cannot claim that everybody in Rivers State is with him.”

Bakare said that the Rivers State Governor has been in the news almost daily because they made him so great and so important, saying that both the ruling APC and opposition PDP have internal crises that their presidential candidates are supposed to have settled before chasing Wike around.

Speaking on the presidential candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, Bakare said that the party is on fire as the party’s chairman, Board of Trustee chairman, and the presidential candidate of the party are all from the northern region, advising Atiku to settle that issue first before Wike’s issue.

He said that people like Wike from the southern part of the country are unhappy with the development, pointing out that even the party’s leadership is confused over this issue.

On Tinubu and the All Progressive Congress (APC), he said that the party also has the problem of the Muslim-Muslim ticket, which the Christians, especially in the North, have been kicking against it outrightly.

Bakare quoted the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal, saying that the Muslim/Muslim ticket was designed to kill, maim and eliminate Christianity from the entire system.

Bakare said that Babachir explained that the Muslim/Muslim ticket was aimed at eliminating Christians from any political, economic, educational, and social benefits of the country.

The public commentator, therefore, advised both Atiku and Tinubu to put their houses in order before making Wike a political hero.

“Both the APC and PDP should know better that the internal crisis rocking their parties are capable of denying them victory in 2023, and 1,000 of Wikes may not prevent the actions of Nigerians.

“Let APC not think that the Nigerians of yesteryears are still the Nigerians of today as the insecurity situation, economic hardships, high cost of living, and many other negative factors have made the electorates to be wiser politically.

“If time is not taken, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi may capitalize on their lapses of APC and PDP to run away with a landslide victory in the 2023 presidential election.

“The APC has come under serious criticisms, especially on the insecurity situation, abject poverty, and high cost of living in the land. The party, therefore, needs a lot of homework to convince Nigerians on why the party must return to power in 2023.

“If the APC capitalizes on the power of incumbency, it will fail woefully in 2023. The party leaders should reflect on what happened in the just concluded Osun governorship election, where PDP ran away with victory even though the APC candidate was a seating Governor.

“The PDP in the State capitalized on the lapses of APC like insecurity, abject poverty, high cost of living, and many other negative factors to convince electorates to revolt against APC through the ballot box.

“If the homework is not done properly, the same fate may befall APC in the presidential election because Nigerians are tired of the party’s government and are crying out for a total change.”

He urged the two old brigades to concentrate on mapping out formidable strategies that would give them victory in 2023 rather than chasing the shadow.

Nzuko Arochukwu Women’s Wing Honours Sen. Kalu As He Unveils Skills Acquisition Centre (Photos)

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Nzuko Arochukwu Women's Wing Honours Sen. Kalu As He Unveils Skills Acquisition Centre

The Apex women organisation of Arochukwu Worldwide on Friday bestowed on Orji Kalu the honour of commissioning its newly built Fashion skill acquisition centre built to empower youths with requisite vocational skills.

President General Women’s Wing Arochukwu women’s wing Worldwide, Lady Bright Onyemaechi Uche showered praises on Orji Kalu for massively supporting the initiative designed to equip youths with various skills.

Lady Bright Onyemaechi Uche
Lady Bright Onyemaechi Uche

While appreciating Kalu for his support, Lady Bright listed Kalu’s completed and ongoing projects in Arochukwu which include; the completed Akama Road New Market slaughter Road, ongoing refurbishment of Amoba Primary School, and the ongoing construction of Utughughu Road.

The centre jam-packed with women sang praises of gratitude to Orji Kalu for his unflinching support towards the realisation of the project.

Speaking to the elated women, Kalu explained the need for Youths to acquire skills asides from formal education, according to Orji Kalu the projects he expedited to the community will be in phases, concluding Kalu announced the donation of the sum of 2 million naira to the jubilant women.

Maikyau Sworn-in As New NBA President

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Maikyau Sworn-in As New NBA President

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Mr Y.C Maikyau was on Friday sworn in as the new President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA following the expiration of Olumide Akpata-led administration.

Mr Y.C Maikyau
Mr Y.C Maikyau

Maikyau, who was sworn in as the 31st President of the NBA, won the election held earlier in July with 38,000 electoral votes.

At the swearing-in ceremony which held at Eko Hotel & Suites, Maikyau thanked God for bringing his thus far.

He also thanked his colleagues at YC Maikyau & Co., his campaign team, as well as friends and associates who supported his candidacy.

The new President commended the outgone Akpata administration for the giant strides it recorded at the NBA in the last two years.

He made a commitment to not only sustain the laudable achievements and projects of the Akpata administration but also to build on it.

He extended a hand of fellowship to all those who contested the office of the NBA President with him, saying he and his team would be coming to tap from their indepth knowledge from time to time.

“I saw all your great manifestos and your laudable proposals for the NBA. What has happened is that we are now the ones who have been given the responsibility. I invite you all to join hands with us as we build the Nigerian Bar Association to that great heights we all desire,” he said.

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