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Immigration Officers, Lecturer Killed In Taraba Bandit Attacks 19 April 2023  Two immigration officers have been killed by suspected bandits along the Takum Ussa Local Government Area link road in Taraba State. Confirming the incident to Channels Television on Wednesday, the Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abdullahi Usman said the officers were not only shot dead but had machete cuts on their bodies with their motorcycle abandoned. The officers were identified as inspectors Adike Austin and Uzo James of the Immigration Department attached to the Ussa local council checkpoint. Usman disclosed that their remains have been deposited at the morgue for autopsy with a full-scale investigation launched, adding that the killing of the immigration officers is not related to the ongoing herders/farmers crisis in the area. In a related development, a lecturer with the Federal University Wukari has been confirmed killed in his farmland by a suspected Tiv militia group. Until his ...

Fire guts Oyo Broadcasting Station 19 April 2023  The Broadcasting Corporation of Oyo State (BCOS) is currently being gutted by fire. The fire was said to have started from the technical area of the studio. Source said the state fire service had been invited and that efforts were ongoing to control the situation.  Watch video below. 

Police, IPOB/ESN in bloody shoot out in Imo 19 April 2023  Imo Police Command has said its operatives wounded several members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militia arm, Eastern Security Network(ESN) during a bloody shootout. The shootout, whichh took place at camp at Ubah Agwa/Izombe tropical rain Forest in Oguta Local Area, left several wounded. Announcing this in a statement by the command’s spokesman, Henry Okoye, tCommissioner of Police, Mohammed Barde, said the group was planning to launch an attack from their base in the forest when operatives of the Command’s Tactical teams swiftly swung into action, tactically maneuvered their way into the identified criminal hideout and raided it. “Acting on diligently gathered actionable intelligence that members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its militia affiliate (ESN), whose modus operandi is gorilla-like operation, that is, they unleash surprise terror attack and go into hiding in their cr...

SANWO-OLU HOSTS MUSLIMS AT 2023 LAYLATUL-QADR EVE SPECIAL PRAYER … Reaffirms Crucial Roles of Youths, Women in Governance As this year’s Ramadan gradually comes to an end, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has again lauded the roles of women and youths in governance, saying that it is impossible for any government aiming to succeed to ignore the contributions of women and the youth population. Sanwo-Olu stated this in his address to the Muslim faithful who attended the 2023 Laylatul-Qadr Eve Special Prayer (Night of Majesty) organised by the Ministry of Home Affairs in conjunction with the First Family of Lagos State, at the Lagos House Mosque Ground, in Alausa, Ikeja on Tuesday. The Governor said that his administration takes cognizance of women and youth in the constitution of the present Executive Council and other appointments, assuring that his second term tenure will also give a prime place for women and youth. Governor Sanwo-Olu, who alluded to the aptness of ...

Buhari directs Immigration Boss Isah Jere to hand over 19 April 2023  President Muhammadu Buhari may have responded to the outcry of stakeholders in the Nigeria Immigration Service to halt the tenure elongation plot of the outgoing Comptroller General of the Immigration Service, Isah Jere, with Monday’s directive for him to hand over the reins of office. The Immigration boss, in a letter marked CDCFIB/APPT.CG&DCG/61/VOL.IV/74 and signed by Obasi Edozie Edmund Ag. Secretary to the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, (CDCFIB), was directed to hand over to the most senior Deputy Comptroller of Immigration on or before 24 April , pending the appointment of a substantive CGI. Recall that some Immigration stakeholders had last week in an open letter appealed to President Buhari to intervene and halt Jere’s tenure elongation, and save the Service from pervasive low morale. Haven served out the one year appointment given him by President Buhari, the stakeh...

‘I Don’t Have Dual Nationality’, Obi Throws Jab At Tinubu April 19, 20230 The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the February 25 election, Peter Obi has said he does not have dual citizenship. This is coming on the heels of controversies trailing Bola Tinubu, who allegedly acquired citizenship of another country other than Nigerian. David Hundeyin, over the weekend, sent Nigerian internet users into a frenzy after he uploaded images of a Guinean Conakry diplomatic passport bearing “Bola Ahmed Tinubu” and his photograph on Twitter. Though Twitter sanctioned Mr Hundeyin over what it described as a “breach of privacy”, there seems no end in sight to the controversy as Nigerians have started calling out Tinubu to come clarify himself. “I’m a Nigerian. Committed Nigerian. I don’t have any dual nationality. So, this (Nigeria) is my own country. “And I have said it that even if there is war outside this country and I’m outside, I will come back because this is my country,” Obi...

PRESS RELEASE In response, kindly quote: AAA.003/CPRU/NHQ/ABJ/VOL/04/03 Date: April 19, 2023 Head of News. NSCDC CG SUMMONS ADAMAWA STATE COMMANDANT. Given the controversy surrounding the just concluded Adamawa State governorship rerun election where the Corps was alleged of complicity along with other security agencies, the Commandant General (CG) of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Ahmed Abubakar Audi, PhD, mni, OFR, has summoned the State Commandant, Muhammad Bello, to the Corps' National Headquarters, Abuja. The Corps helmsman directed the State Commandant to immediately hand over affairs of the Command to his immediate subordinate to allow him time to provide the management of the Corps with an explanation on the role he played in the exercise. Dr Audi emphasised that NSCDC is a non-partisan, non-political organisation that will not tolerate the involvement of personnel or any of its formation in political controversies as widely alleged. "I have summ...