EDO ASSEMBLY: NATASHA REMOVED AS MINORITY LEADER. (PHOTO).

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The Edo State House of Assembly has removed Hon. Natasha Osawaru Irobosa of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) from her position as Minority Leader, marking a significant shift in the chamber’s leadership structure. The announcement, made on Monday, is part of a broader restructuring triggered by recent political defections. Hon. Charity Aiguobarueghian, also of the PDP, was similarly stripped of her role as Majority Leader. Meanwhile, Hon. Yekini Idaiye, another PDP lawmaker, lost his position as Chief Whip. Despite the shake-up, PDP lawmakers Hon. Blessing Agbebaku and Hon. Maria Edeko have held onto their roles as Speaker and Deputy Speaker, respectively—for now. The changes stem from a letter submitted by Jarret Tenebe, acting chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, following the defection of four PDP lawmakers to the APC. This shift has cost the PDP its majority in the Assembly, prompting the realignment of key positions. Speaker Agbebaku, in his address, con...

GHANA & TOGO ARE THE NEXT TARGETS FOR ISLAMIST MILITANT ATTACKS-MEMO.

                  According to a memo from Ghana Immigration Service,Ghana and Togo are the next targets for Islamist militants following high profile attacks this year in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.The memo calls for better boder protection in the latest sign of a heightened government response to the threat to West Africa by militants based in northern Mali who have stepped up a campaign of violence in the last year.It says the National Security Council Secretariat {NSCS} has evidence from neighbouring Ivory Coast from the interrogation of a man suspected of orchestrating an attack on March 13 in which 18 people were killed.The memo,dated April 9 and published by Ghanaian media says ''Intelligence gathered by the ..NSCS indicates a possible terrorist attack on the country is real...The choice of Ghana according to the report is to take away the perception that only Francophone countries are the target''.It ordered immigration agents on the northern border with Burkina Faso to be extra vigilant and said patrols should be stepped up along informal routes between the two countries.President John Mahama spoke about the memo in an interview on state radio ''Sunrise FM on thursday.He asked for public vigilance and said Ghana was also at risk from home grown militants,while noting that countries in the region share intelligence on militant threats.He said ''We must deal with this without creating panic amongst our people''.Adding that the memo should not have detailed the intelligence on which its calls for greater vigilance were based.More photos below.                                                                                                                                                                   

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