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CIVIL DEFENCE UNVEILS ADDITIONAL UNIFORM FOR SMARTER SERVICE DELIVERY     Determined to improve the effeciency of the Corps, the Minister of Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, unveiled an additional uniform for the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) at the Ministry of Interior in Abuja. The new addition to the array of uniforms of NSCDC is made up of distinct Navy blue trouser with a white top and a symbolic red collar.  According to the Minister, the additional uniform is to add value to the Corps and promote effective service delivery and general efficiency in it's assigned mandates. "We are here today to unveil additional uniform to the set of uniforms already in use in NSCDC which the officers will wear only on Tuesday. The specificity of this has been displayed by the Commandant General of the Corps, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi who has come out in the beautiful uniform we are commissioning today" Minister said. The Commandant General, Dr Ahmed Abubakar Audi, ...

GOVERNOR SOLUDO CELEBRATE HOLY PALM SUNDAY WITH CATHOLIC FAITHFUL  The governor of Anambra State; Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo CFR today celebrates the Palm Sunday with Catholic faithful in St. Patrick Cathedral Awka. The Holy Mass started with procession with palm fronds; dancing and glorying the name of the Lord in memory of the biblical triumphant entry of our Lord Jesus Christ into Jerusalem.  The Holy Mass is celebrated by Bishop Paulinus Chukwuemeka Ezeokafor, the Bishop of Awka diocese. More photos below. 

2023: Pastor Tunde Bakare Declares For President Eminent cleric Tunde Bakare has signalled his interest to run for President in 2023. In a speech delivered at a virtual meeting on Saturday, Bakare positioned himself as the best person to lead the nation from 2023. Bakare was running mate of President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2011 presidential elections under the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).  

Bandits Gun Down Miyyetti Allah Chairman In Abuja Bandits have killed Adamu Aliyu, chairman of the Miyyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Gwagwalada Area Council of Abuja. Aliyu was said to have been killed alongside four others near Daku village in Dobi ward of the council on Thursday. Group secretary, Usman said the bandits, who suddenly emerged from the bush and, opened fire on a truck that was conveying the victims. “They were retuning from Izom market in Niger state where they went to sell cows, until just one kilometer to Daku village when the bandits suddenly emerged from the bush and opened fire on the truck, killing the MACBAN chairman and four others,” he said.  

I’ll Decide On 2023 Presidency After Easter – Ngige The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said he is still consulting on whether or not he will join the presidential race. He added that he would make public his decision after Easter. Approaching 70years of Minister Ngige, a member of the All Progressives Congress, in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja, said, “I’m still consulting and will make the decision arising from it public after Lent which is Easter period.” Pressure groups and prominent voices in the country have called on the two major political parties, the Peoples Democratic Party and the APC, to micro-zone the 2023 presidency to the South-East.  

MRS OSINACHI NWACHUKWU'S TWIN SISTER SPEAKS! EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH VANGUARD! The sister of the late gospel music artiste who d!ed last week of alleged C@ncer of the throat, Sister Osinachi Nwachukwu, today, revealed to Vanguard Metro that, her sister died as a result of a cluster of bl00d in the chest from the kicking she got from her husband, Mr Peter Nwachukwu. Speaking with one of the family members, Ms Favour Made, who is the elder sister of the late Osinachi, she exposed all the inhumane treatments her sister got from her husband, before her untimely death. We heard it was cancer that killed Osinachi. She did not die of cancer. The husband, Mr Peter Nwachukwu hit her with his leg on the chest. All this while, he has been beating her but my sister hides all that she was passing through from us. Before now, we have told her to come out of the marriage, we told her that they are not divorcing and that it’s just a separation. But she felt that God is against divorce. We told he...

The Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) FCT chapter has congratulated Naija Ratels, after they braced the odds and qualified for 2022 Super six of the Nigeria Women Football League (NWFL), describing them as the towering and only elite women football club in the nation's capital city. Naija Ratels, privately-owned club for the first time soared into the country's apex women League after crossing the second tier huddles in 2021, a feat many stakeholders hailed as unprecedented. In a congratulatory statement issued in Abuja on Sunday, Chairman of SWAN FCT, Mr. Ndubueze Chidoka said the continued victorious attainment of Naija Ratels was a sign of glorious and greater exploits ahead. "On behalf of the entire Sports Writers particularly within the FCT, I congratulate Naija Ratels for blazing the trail again. NWFL has become very competitive in recent times. "For Naija Ratels to make it to the top Nigeria's Women's League for the first time ever, yet quali...

PRESIDENT BUHARI GREETS ALIKO DANGOTE AT 65 President Muhammadu Buhari rejoices with Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, on his 65th birthday, April 10th, 2022, joining family members, friends and associates to celebrate the milestone with the business magnate. The President shares the memorable occasion with the Dangote Group, which includes management and members of staff, and the many visionary leaders that daily redefine the livelihood of Nigerians for the better, and drive competitiveness in the economy with clear ranking of excellence in provision of goods and services. As Alhaji Dangote turns 65, President Buhari affirms the footprints of the consummate businessman in key sectors of the economy, and the remarkable results achieved in production and supply of food items, making him a household name. More recently, his dynamism in buoying the economy through heavy investments in building Africa’s largest refinery, fertiliser manufacturing company,...

NDLEA intercepts 101 parcels of Cocaine in Children duvets at Lagos airport . Seizes drugged Milo beverage in Edo; skunk in detergent containers at Enugu airport No less than 101 parcels of Cocaine concealed in eight children duvets have been intercepted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.  The illicit drug was brought into the country by a 52-year-old Brazilian returnee, Akudirinwa Hilary Uchenna who hails from Oru East Local Government area of Imo state. He was arrested on Saturday 9th April at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos airport upon his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha aboard Qatar Airline flight, while the 101 parcels of the class A drug with a gross weight of 13.2 kilogram were recovered from his only check-in bag. During preliminary interview, Uchenna who claimed to be a carpenter confessed that he was to be paid N5million for trafficking the drug after successfully del...

The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service on Saturday said it intercepted  1,300 jerry cans of petroleum products with a Duty Paid Value (DPV) of N12,543,960. The Customs Area Controller of the Command, Comptroller Bello Mohammed Jibo, said the arrest was made on Wednesday, 6 April 2022. He said  the 1,300 jerry cans of petroleum products (30 litres each) is equivalent to 39,000 litres. “This arrest is coming at a time when the Government is spending huge resources to subside the products to ameliorate the plight of its citizens, but these unscrupulous and unpatriotic elements are bent on sabotaging the efforts of the government. It is on this premise that the Officers and Men of the Command, redoubled their efforts with renewed vigour in the fight against smuggling of the petroleum product.” He explained. Jibo attributed the successes recorded to consistency on the part of the Management of the Nigeria Customs Service in providing the needed logistics, adequate wor...

PRESS RELEASE VALUE-BASED POLICING: NPF PARTNERS ACTORS GUILD FOR STANDARDIZATION OF POLICE PORTRAYALS, PROMOTION OF VALUES   In a bid to standardize the portrayal of the Nigeria Police Force in movies and other creative content produced by the Nigeria movie and entertainment industry, the Police has partnered with the leadership of the Nigeria Guild of Actors, and other relevant associations in the Nigeria entertainment industry. The police met with the leadership of the guild of actors recently at the Louis Edet House, Force Headquarters, Abuja, to critically deliberate on topical issues of national security viz-a-viz intelligence gathering and community partnership. The meeting also discussed areas of possible collaboration to shape positive thoughts and narratives, portray good values, and resuscitate Nigerian cultures through movies, skits, creative content, which would impress positively on the Nigerian public, add value to our system, provide police officers with modern inno...

*ANAMBRA STATE POLICE COMMAND BULLETIN OF 10TH APRIL, 2022.* *CP ECHENG RESTATES COMMAND’S COMMITMENT TO STAMPING OUT VIOLENT CRIMES, EXTORTION, OTHERS IN ANAMBRA.* _As Police arrest 32 suspects, recover one berreta pistol, one magnum pump action and Ammunition_ The Commissioner of Police, Anambra Command, *CP Echeng Echeng* has restated the Command's resolve to stamp out violent crimes, extortion and other forms of crime and criminality in the State.  The *CP* stated this, today sunday 10th April, 2022 when police officers, attached to Anambra Command arrested thirty two suspects on offences ranging from armed robbery, unlawful possession of firearm and extortion, recovered one locally made beretta pistol, one magnum pump action  and ammunition  The Command Operatives, acting on a credible information, at about 4:30am on 30/3/2022, arrested one Ozo Olie Ifeanyi ‘M’ 43years in his residence at Odoje village, Onitsha and recovered one locally fabricated single barrel pisto...