Category: NATIONAL NEWS - Page 42

May

2023

IGP Condemns Callous Attack On U.s Consulate Convoy In Anambra • Orders Prompt, Arrest, Investigation of Culprits

NATIONAL NEWS#AmericanConsulate, #Culprit, #NigeriaPolice

IGP Condemns Callous Attack On U.s Consulate Convoy In Anambra • Orders Prompt, Arrest, Investigation of Culprits The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, CFR, has condemned in its totality the callous attack on a United States Consulate convoy and the killing and burning beyond recognition of seven (7) persons including US Embassy local staff and Police Mobile Force Officers, and their vehicles, as well as the likely abduction of two (2) others, at Atani Osamale Road, Ogbaru Local Government Area of Anambra State, who were visiting the area to assess its proneness to erosions as part of…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

NATIONAL NEWS#FireOutbreak, #FireService, #NAOSNP, #StorageFacility

Fire Guts Section Of NSCDC Lagos Command Storage Facility *As fire service intervenes A fire incident was reported today Saturday, 13th May, 2023 at about 03:30hrs on the storage facility of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos State Command's Headquarters. National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP gathered that the Corp's officers and men on duty at the time were shocked by an unpalatable sound traced to a meagre section of the storage facility, where a few exhibits stored in kegs are usually kept. The unpalatable sound turned out to be a fire outbreak, which engulfed…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

NASS 10th ASSEMBLY: I’ll Like Where Igbo Man Becomes Senate President For Two Tenures- HoR Member-elect, Aguocha *Highlights impacts of failed zoning on S’E

NATIONAL NEWS#10thNationalAssembly, #LabourParty, #ObiAguocha, #Speakership

NASS 10th ASSEMBLY: I'll Like Where Igbo Man Becomes Senate President For Two Tenures- HoR Member-elect, Aguocha *Highlights impacts of failed zoning on S'E By Charity Uwakwe As the struggle for the leadership of 10th National Assembly subsists, the House of Assembly member-elelct for Ikwuano/Umuahia Member-elect, High Chief Obi Aguocha says it is his utmost desire to have a South Easterner emerge as the Senate President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Speaking on AIT Focus Nigeria, the Ogwumabiri 1 of Umuahia who is to represent the seat of capital of Abia state, admitted that the Igbo extraction had…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

WPFD 2023: IPC Decries Increasing Attacks On Journalists Establishes Centre On Safety Of Journalists

NATIONAL NEWS#IPC, #MediaAttack, #PressFreedom, intimidation, journalism, victimisation

WPFD 2023: IPC Decries Increasing Attacks On Journalists Establishes Centre On Safety Of Journalist In a bid to further address the growing spate of attacks on journalists and the threats on media freedom in Nigeria, the International Press Centre (IPC), Lagos, has announced that it is establishing a Centre for the Safety and Protection of Journalist (CSFPJ), as part of its unique activities to commemorate World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) 2023. A statement by Mr. Lanre Arogundade, IPC’s Executive Director, Melody Lawal has been appointed has the Centre Coordinator, with the task of positioning the CSFPJ to strategically…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

Emulate OBJ to concede Senate President to S/east, group tells Tinubu By Comrade Murtala Mohammed 10 10

NATIONAL NEWS#10thSenatePresidency, #BolaTinubu, #OlusegunObasanjo

Emulate OBJ to concede Senate President to S/east, group tells Tinubu By Comrade Murtala Mohammed 10 10 The President Elect Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu has been told by a group known Concerned Citizens For Greater Nigeria to quash any commitment he made with anybody elsewhere over Senate President slot and emulate former President Olusegun Obasanjo to concede Senate President slot to the Southeast geopolitical zone to avoid continued marginalization of zone considering the fact that the zone was further denied the chances of producing the President as well as the Vice President. The Concerned Citizens in a Press briefing at…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

Kalu writes APC NWC, 108 Senators-elect of Intention to be Next Senate President

NATIONAL NEWS#10thSenatePresidency, #OrjiUzorKalu, #Pragmatism

Kalu writes APC NWC, 108 Senators-elect of Intention to be Next Senate President Chief Whip of the Senate and former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu has written personal letters to the members of National Working Committee of All Progressives Congress(APC) and 108 Senators elect of his interest to be the next Senate President. This is even as he refuted the news making round that the South East Senators elect endorsed him , explaining that the Senators -elect of the South East only met to make a demand from the President-elect and the party and…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

NSCDC Boss Advocates Sustenance Of Western Education As Norway Safe School Team, Visits Nigeria’s Response Centre

NATIONAL NEWS, SECURITY#AhmedAbubakarAudi, NSCDC

NSCDC Boss Advocates Sustenance Of Western Education As Norway Safe School Team, Visits Nigeria's Response Centre The Commandant General (CG), of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, mni, OFR, advocates the sustenance of western education in Nigeria as a panacea to growth and development. He made the advocacy while playing host to the Norwagian Safe Schools team, led by the Senior Adviser, Save the children Norway, Mrs Samar Albarghouthi at the National Safe Schools Response Coordination Center (NSSRCC), domiciled at the Corps National Headquarters, Abuja. Dr Audi who was represented by the Deputy Commandant…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

News Break! Abia State HoR Caucus of 10th Assembly Endorses RtH. Ben Kalu As Leader, Sole Candidate, Deputy Speaker (See Photos)

NATIONAL NEWS#10thNationalAssembly, #AmobiOgah, #BenjaminKalu, #ObiAguocha

News Break! Abia State HoR Caucus of 10th Assembly Endorses RtH. Ben Kalu As Leader, Sole Candidate, Deputy Speaker (See Photos) By Charity Uwakwe The Abia State House Of Representatives Caucus of the 10th National Assembly Meeting, has today, Saturday, May 6, endorsed Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu As Abia State Caucus Leader and sole candidate for Deputy Speaker, House Of Representatives. Rt. Hon. Kalu is the member representing Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State in the Lower Chamber. This is even as the tussle for a new leadership of the Green Chamber subsists. …

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

Tinubu Support Group Backs Orji Kalu For 10th Senate President

NATIONAL NEWS, POLITICS#10thSenatePresidency, #BolaTinubu, #Dr.OrjiUzorKalu

Tinubu Support Group Backs Orji Kalu For 10th Senate President A support group of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Volunteers Group (AVG), has backed the former governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu to become the next Senate President of the 10th National Assembly. The Cross River State Coordinator of the group, Hon. George Ichichere Sunday, in a statement signed on Sunday evening in Calabar and made available to newsmen, stated that Kalu is the most qualified among other contenders. It noted that Kalu, who is the incumbent Senate Chief Whip, apart from being a ranking…

May

2023

By Famous Reporters

Release Nnamdi Kanu, New Ohanaeze leader Iwuanyanwu urges Buhari *Vows to defend Igbo cause

NATIONAL NEWS#BiafraAgitation, #EmmanuelIwuanyanwu, #ipob, #MaziNnamdiKanu, #Ndigbo, #OhanaezeNdigbo

Release Nnamdi Kanu, New Ohanaeze leader Iwuanyanwu urges Buhari *Vows to defend Igbo cause Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu has promised to diligently defend the cause of the Igbos following his installation as the new President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo. Mr Iwuanyanwu was on Sunday inaugurated as the leader of the apex Igbo body at an event held at the old Government Lodge in Enugu during the Imeobi meeting (inner caucus) of the group. Mr Iwuanyanwu said he never nurtured the ambition to be the President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, instead, he had the ambition of becoming the President of the Federal Republic of…