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Ify Onyegbule is the new Director General of Imo Broadcasting Corporation(IBC). Below press release has details. Congratulations to you Ify. This is how it should be. Right woman for the job. You will exceed expectations on this new role. IBC will experience great transformation. Governor Hope Uzodimma, you got this one 100%.  ☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ Government of Imo State Press release Uzodimma approves appointment of Onyegbule as new DG of IBC The Governor of Imo State, Sen. Hope Uzodimma, has approved the appointment of Ms. Ify Onyegbule as the new Director General of the Imo Broadcasting Corporation (IBC). Ms. Onyegbule has been a Board member of the State owned radio cum television station since 2021 before her appointment. The appointment is with immediate effect. In congratulating Ms. Onyegbule, Governor Uzodimma urged her to bring to bear in IBC her years of experience and professional competence in the broadcast industry for the overall benefit of Imo State.  Ms....

KDSG Security Update: Monday 28th November 2022.  Troops raid bandit camps, rescue nine victims.  - Ninety cows, four motorcycles recovered.  Troops of Operation Forest Sanity rescued nine kidnapped persons during fighting patrols to suspected bandit hideouts in Kaso, Chikun LGA.  According to operational feedback to the Kaduna State Government, the troops engaged bandits on the Tantatu high ground, as the bandits abandoned their camp fled further into the forest.   The troops searched the camp and rescued nine kidnapped persons, identified as: - Salama Oliver  - Husseini Odu - Danjuma Jakanwa  - Ezekiel Garba  - Obadiah Moses - Taiwo Isaac - Buky Isaac - Ado Adamu - Maigari Shekarau  Initial debriefing of the rescued victims revealed that they had all been kidnapped around the Gurara Dam area.   The troops also recovered 90 cattle left behind by the fleeing bandits. The animals will be handed over to the Kaduna State Livestock...

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT OSUN STATE POLICE COMMAND ASSURES ADEQUATE SECURITY  This is to inform the general public that the Osun State Police Command is aware and frowns at the crises that erupted within the National Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW) in the State. It would be recalled that the Commissioner of Police, the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers, other stake holders held meetings with NURTW executive, members and other stake holders in the state to avert these unwarranted attacks and forceful takeover of the parks in the state. All consented to maintaining peace, but it was a surprise to learn about the attacks by NURTW members in several parts of the state with attendant destruction of offices and injury to some persons and Police personnel. The Commissioner of Police, CP Faleye S. Olaleye, psc, swiftly charged the Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and Tactical Commanders to ensure the situation is brought under control and arrest culprits....

WANTED | The duo of Anayo Chukwu Nwoke Collin 'm', 36 years old and Edwin Ikechukwu Stanley, 'm', 40 years old, are wanted in connection with a case of Conspiracy, Illegal Dealing in Petroleum Products and Tempering with Oil Pipeline. Anyone with information that could assist in their arrest should please contact +234 812 382 1788. More photos below. 

Nigerian community in Rome Holds Prayer for Nigeria, charged to support the birth of a New Nigeria Nigerians living in Rome have been charged to see themselves as stakeholders towards the realisation of the dream of a New Nigeria.  The call was made by Very Rev. Fr. Michael Ademola Odubela, OSJ, in his reflection shared with members of the Nigerian community at a prayer session on Saturday, November 26, 2022, at the Chiesa di Sant' Anna, Vatican City.  The community assembled in union to seek God's intervention for radical healing and positive transformation of Nigeria from the current ills bedevilling the country namely; bad leadership, corruption, division, insecurity, incessant shedding of blood and waste of life, mutual suspicion, exploitation as well as abuse of power and office.  Reflecting on the Gospel passage according to Luke 18.36-43, Fr. Odubela stressed on the need to pray, noting that the value of prayer can never be overemphasized in the quest for for a ne...

ACTDA Demolishes Illegal Structures In Awka, Okpuno,  Vows To Continue Onslaught Against Illegal Developers Officers of the Awka Capital Territory Development Authority (ACTDA) in company of Anambra Joint Enforcement Team (ANJET), Operation Clean and Healthy Anambra (OCHA BRIGADE), various Security Agencies among others have demolished an illegal biulding blocking a road at Okpuno and leveled an ongoing building under  construction at Agu-Awka, all in Awka South Local Government Area.  They also marked some illegal structures within the enviroment for immediate removal. Speaking to the ABS shortly after the exercise, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ACTDA, Mr Ossy Onuko who monitored the exercise regretted the level of developmental impunity going on in the society, especially in Awka Capital Territory. Mr. Onuko who said that for Anambra to become fulfill the vision of Governor Chukwuma Soludo has promised Ndi Anambra, residents of the state must lear...

SOLUDO COMMISERATES WITH VICTIMS OF KANO STREET FIRE INCIDENT, BESIDE ONITSHA MAIN MARKET Governor of Anambra State, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, CFR has commiserated with victims and owners of some shops at the Kano Street, beside Main Market, Onitsha, following a fire incident that occured in the market The unfortunate fire incident occurred around 1:00 am, in the morning of Monday 28th, November, 2022 and officers of the Anambra State Fire Service were on ground to extinguish it. Governor Soludo expressed sadness over the incident that left shops and goods razed and the losses incurred  "I commiserate with the shop owners over the inferno. "As a responsive government, we are already on top of the situation, investigating the remote and immediate causes of the fire, as well as the losses incurred with a view to averting a future recurrence of the disaster", said Professor Soludo. "Efforts of our emergency responders like the state fire service contributed in...