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 Two More Bodies Recovered From Port Harcourt Helicopter Crash, Says NSIB The Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) says two more bodies have been recovered from the Sikorsky S-76 helicopter that crashed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Three persons were confirmed dead following the crash on Thursday. Eight persons (six passengers and two crew members) were on board the aircraft when the incident happened. Barely a day after the crash, the NSIB said more bodies have been recovered while three more persons remain unaccounted for. “We have recovered two more bodies, making it a total of five. There are three more down there that hopefully will be recovered today,” NSIB Director General, Alex Badeh, said on Friday. When asked if there are chances that none of those on board the aircraft survived the crash, Badeh said, “Unfortunately. this time, that is the working theory”. According to him, investigators are on their way to the scene of the accident, saying it would ...

 No system upgrade underway, says FirstBank FirstBank has refuted reports suggesting that it is undergoing a system upgrade, clarifying that the notice about transitioning to a new cloud-based platform was specifically intended for vendors, not customers. The bank, in a statement on Friday, explained that a message sent to vendors was misinterpreted and incorrectly reported. It said the message concerned transitioning from the current I-Supplier Platform to a new Cloud-based Supplier Platform to enhance vendor capabilities and benefits. “The message which was incorrectly interpreted and reported was sent to, and intended for our vendors only and focused on transitioning from our current I-Supplier Platform (our automated platform that connects us to suppliers) to a new Cloud-based Supplier Platform (worldclass platform for managing suppliers), to enable additional capabilities and benefits for our vendors. “Please be informed that no system upgrade is currently underway, and all ou...

 Enugu honours Iwuanyanwu, cancels monthly clean-up The Enugu State Waste Management Authority has cancelled the monthly clean-up exercise that was scheduled to be held on Saturday, October 26, 2024. A statement on Friday by the Special Adviser to the Governor on Water and Waste, Andreas Gebauer, said the cancellation was due to the state-wide funeral rites in honour of the late President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu. The statement partly read, “The Enugu State Waste Management Authority has cancelled the state monthly clean-up exercise, which was scheduled to hold on Saturday. “The cancellation was due to the state-wide funeral rites in honour of the late President-General of Ohaneze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, scheduled to be held the same Saturday, October 26, 2024, in Enugu.” ESWAMA, however, advised “Ndi Enugu to always keep their environment clean and bag their waste properly before disposal to make the evacuation easier for the evacuators,” add...

 Shettima's Trip To Commonwealth Summit Cancelled Over Damage To Plane's Cockpit Windscreen Vice President Kashim Shettima’s trip to Samoa to represent Nigeria at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Summit has been cancelled after a foreign object hit his plane during a stopover at JFK Airport in New York. The foreign object damaged the cockpit windscreen of the plane, a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy said on Thursday night. It said, "President Tinubu, acting promptly, has approved a ministerial delegation to represent Nigeria at the summit in the Samoa capital of Apia while the plane's repair has commenced. "The delegation, which will now represent Nigeria at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, is being led by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abass Lawal. "The summit began on the Pacific island on 21 October. It will end on 26 October."  "Vice Pres...

 Uganda jails LRA rebel commander for 40 years in landmark trial A Ugandan court on Friday sentenced a former Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) commander to 40 years in prison after a landmark war crimes trial over his role in the group's two-decade reign of terror. Thomas Kwoyelo was found guilty in August of multiple counts of crimes against humanity in the first such trial in the East African country, AFP reported. "This court has determined the 40 years sentence on the offence of murder properly reflects on the criminality of Thomas Kwoyelo," lead judge Michael Elubu said at the International Crimes Division (ICD) of the high court in the northern city of Gulu. The LRA was founded by former altar boy and self-styled prophet Joseph Kony in Uganda in the 1980s with the aim of establishing a regime based on the Ten Commandments. Reign of terror Its rebellion against President Yoweri Museveni saw more than 100,000 people killed and 60,000 children abducted in a reign of te...

 PRESS RELEASE  MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT: GOVERNOR  OTTI CONGRATULATES AMBASSADOR BIANCA OJUKWU, DESCRIBES HER APPOINTMENT AS BEFITTING  The Governor of Abia State, His Excellency, Dr. Alex Otti, OFR, has Congratulated Nigeria's Former Ambassador to Spain and Wife of the Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Her Excellency, Ambassador Mrs. Bianca Odumegwu Ojukwu on her appointment as the Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs by the President, His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. Governor Otti described Mrs. Ojukwu's appointment as excellent and befitting because of her rich qualities, her experience and her unblemished record of excellence, and expressed confidence that her appointment would help the nation advance her foreign policy and diplomatic relationships in a manner that would benefit the nation and her citizens in Diaspora.  According to the Governor " Ambassador Bianca Ojukwu's appointment isn't just excellent and befitting, but one that ...

 ADDRESS BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER OF INFORMATION AND NATIONAL ORIENTATION, ALHAJI MOHAMMED IDRIS, fnipr, ON THE OCCASION OF THE CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL GLOBAL MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY WEEK 2024, THEMED “NEW DIGITAL FRONTIERS OF INFORMATION: MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY FOR PUBLIC INTEREST INFORMATION” ORGANISED BY THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA AND INFORMATION LITERACY INSTITUTE (IMILI), NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, ABUJA, ON FRIDAY 25TH OCTOBER, 2024.   Protocols.   2.​It is with great honour that I stand to address you at the symposium, jointly organized by the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation, the International Media and Information Literacy Institute under the National Open University of Nigeria, UNESCO Abuja Office and the National Commission for UNESCO (NATCOM UNESCO) to commemorate National Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2024.   3.​As you may be aware, October 24th to 31st every year have been chosen by UNESCO to ...