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       Following distress calls received from good Samaritans indicating the abduction of some farmers today 8 July 2019 while working on their farms at the outskirts of Kuyelo community, in Birnin Gwari Local Area of Kaduna State, a patrol team from 1 Division Nigerian Army stationed at Super Camp Kuyello, on Exercise HARBIN KUNAMA 111, swiftly pursed the bandits/kidnappers and rescued all the 13 kidnapped farmers after a serious exchange of fire with the criminals. During the encounter, one of the bandits was neutralised, while others obviously escaped with gun shot wounds. Soldiers are currently combing the general area which borders Katsina, Zamfara and Kaduna States. The General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1 Division Major General Faruk Yahaya, has enjoined troops to always be proactive and decisive in dealing with criminals and associated insecurity in their respective areas of responsibilities. He reiterated the resolve and determination of the Division and indeed the Niger

         President Muhammadu Buhari received a team of Arewa House Centre for Historical Documentation and Research, led by the Director General of Arewa House, Prof Idris Jimada, at the State House, Abuja.More details later and more photo below.

        The Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu has urged employers of labour in both the public and private sector not to reject Corps members posted to serve in their organisations in the State. He made the call on Monday at the closing ceremony/parade for the 2019 Batch ‘B’ Stream 1 orientation course held at the NYSC temporary Orientation Camp, Iyana Ipaja. Sanwo-Olu, who was represented at the event by the Secretary to the State Government, Mrs. Folashade Jaji, appealed to various establishments in the State to provide adequate welfare for the corps members during their service year in accordance with the National Youth Service Corps Act. The Governor also charged corps members to develop the entrepreneurship requisite skills acquired during their 21-day orientation course in order to be self-reliant, become wealth creators and employers of labour in the face of daunting unemployment challenges facing the country. He noted that the development of the skills wil

      EFCC Canvasses for Asset Recovery, Marks AU Anti-corruption Day with Road Walk, Round Table Discussion The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Thursday, July 11, 2019 host a public education and sensitization Road Walk, as well as a Round Table Discussion on Asset Recovery and Return, to mark the 3rd African Union, AU Anti-Corruption Day. This year’s theme: “Towards a Common African Position on Asset Recovery”, will be the focus of the Round Table discussi on, and will involve development partners, members of the international community, policy makers, legal practitioners, private sector, banks and civil society organizations, among others. Participants will be tasked with developing a framework for Africa’s assets recovery and return. The road walk, which will be a symbolic Walk Towards Asset Recovery & Return, will be led by the Acting Chairman, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, and will commence at 7am from the EFCC Abuja Zonal Office, 5, Fomella Str

       President Muhammadu Buhari sends warm greetings to the family of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme on the 85th birthday of his wife, Mrs Beatrice Chigozili Ekwueme. President Buhari joins the family in celebrating the matriarch, whose wisdom, strength and support for her late husband continues to inspire and resonate, especially her dedication to the service of God and making life better for others. The President congratulates the former Vice President’s wife for her resourcefulness, diligence and discipline in raising a strong family of nation builders as her children have taken up many responsible positions in the country in teaching, coaching and mentoring. As Mrs Ekwueme turns 85, President Buhari believes her contributions to the nation will always be remembered, most significantly her unwavering commitment to the grooming of the younger generation to make education a priority, and cultivate virtues of humility, patience and hard work. The President prays for lon

      Corps member dies after applying sniper to her hair to kill lice... A corps member deployed to Osogbo, Osun State for her service year, has been confirmed dead after applying sniper to her hair to kill lice. Ayomikun Juliana, a graduate of Tai Solarin University of Education discovered her hair was infested with lice following her visit to the salon, and reportedly sprayed her hair with the deadly insecticide which she covered with a cap and slept off after. The corps member who was found unconscious the next day, died after being rushed to the hospital. Ladies please, let's be careful...

      Two siblings, Chinaza Nwogu and Emeka Ejike are cooling off in police net after they were arrested alongside one Emmanuel Sunday for kidnapping their 88-year-old father, Louis Njoku. Emmanuel said to be Chinaza's boyfriend, had planned using his cut from the ransom that will be paid for the abduction of his would-be father-in-law to pay for his daughter’s bride price. Parading the suspects, the Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba said the suspects were arrested by operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Imo state command on June 29 following a tip-off. “A pathetic development is that of two siblings, who teamed up with the would-be husband of one of them to abduct their 88-year-old father. Chinaza, who wants to get married to Emmanuel, teamed up with her brother, Emeka, to kidnap their father, who is an octogenarian, in what I call a triangular crime arrangement. “The suspects were arrested by the operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the command o

       The Lagos State Government has confiscated a truckload of “Toxic Ponmo” at Ijegun, a suburb of Lagos in the Alimosho Local Government area of the State, imported into the country by some unscrupulous individuals. Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Ministry of Agriculture, Dr. Olayiwole Onasanya, who disclosed this in Lagos today noted the Police in Ikotun area of the State made the arrest of a vehicle fully loaded with cowhide, othe rwise known as “ponmo”, and subsequently informed officials of the State Government. He pointed out that the cowhide preserved with certain chemicals for the purpose of being used as leather material are being sold for human consumption by some criminals prior to their arrest by the Police and subsequent confiscation by the State Government. The Permanent Secretary noted that the confiscated “toxic ponmo”, suspected to contain substances that could spread the Ebola virus, has since been transported to the Ministry’s outstation at Johnson Agiri

              Sound of Music star Julie Andrews is set to release her Hollywood Memoir October 15,2019.She shared this information on social media few hours ago when she shared two post of two different photos with the captions ''Galleys have arrived,audiobook recording is complete...pub date for both:  October 15!''. Then the second caption she wrote ''Now you know why you have't heard from me ina while! Love,Julie''.Congratulations to her and her daughter Emma Walton Hamilton.More photos below.

      OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT PRESS RELEASE WE NEED TO FORM ALLIANCES ACROSS FAITHS AND ETHNICITIES TO DESTROY THE EVIL OF EXTREMISM THAT CONFRONTS US ALL – VP OSINBAJO REMARKS BY HIS EXCELLENCY, PROF.YEMI OSINBAJO, SAN, GCON, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, AT THE PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF CHIEF OLUSEGUN OSOBA’S MEMOIR; BATTLELINES: ADVENTURES IN JOURNALISM AND POLITICS ON MONDAY, 8TH JULY, 2019. PROTOCOL. Chief Olusegun Osoba's illustrious career as a journalist and later politician, have also by some uncanny stroke of good fortune, placed him at the centre of many defining moments and situations of post-Independent Nigeria. Arguably the most memorable is his January 1966 scoop; the tragic discovery of the bodies of Prime Minister Tafawa Balewa and Finance Minister Festus Okotie-Eboh, not long after the coup that ended Nigeria's first Republic. He was there on the frontlines in many sectors of the Civil War, recording and reporting the horrors an

    Nigerian Ace musician Charly-Boy {Area Fada},shared all these photos on social media with the caption ''WHY? Is there a reason why high ranking pastors like ADEBOYE are quiet about all the killings going on in Nigeria.Why are they so silent? So,today I marched to Redeem Camp with some members of the creative industry to ask why?''.More photos below.