Month: June 2023

ANTI- DEFORESTATION: Cross River Govt issues 7-day ultimatum on 32 impounded log-bearing trucks

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Cross River State Governor, Sen. Prince Bassey Otu has reiterated his administration’s commitment to fighting illegal logging and other adverse environmental activities in the state.   The governor made this known during an on-the- spot-inspection of 32 trucks with illegal timber at the border community with Ebonyi State on Monday.   Otu, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Hon. Emmanuel Ironbar, at the scene of the seized trucks at Ejiraga in Yala Local Government, warned all illegal loggers to use the window of opportunity offered by the government…

Speaker Abbas appoints PUNCH reporter as Chief Press Secretary

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Honourable Tajudeen Abbas, the Speaker of the House of Representatives has appointed a reporter with PUNCH Newspaper, Leke Bayeiwu, as his Chief Press Secretary. Leke, who is among the 33 fresh appointments announced by the Speaker on Monday, was until now the correspondent of PUNCH covering the National Assembly for the media outlet. Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Speaker, Musa Abdullahi Krishi announced the appointments in a press statement on Monday. He said the appointments takes immediate effect. The full list of the appointees is as follows:…

Boat Mishap: Gov Bassey Otu orders Indefinite Suspension of Cruise Operations at Marina Resort

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Cross River State Governor,Senator Prince Bassey Otu, in further response to the cruise boat accident at the Marina Resort, Calabar, on Saturday, June 24, 2023 that involved 14 medical students with three feared dead and 11 rescued, The Governor ordered all cruise boat operations and other activities at the Marina Resort be suspended immediately until further notice. He also directed the cruise boat operators with the management of the State Tourism Bureau to attend a meeting in the Office of the Secretary to the State Government on Tuesday, June 27th,…

What Nigerians in France told Bola Tinubu By Dele Alake

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Friday in Paris–France assured Nigerians of repositioning the education and health sectors, while the ongoing reforms on the economy will be sustained and expanded, with a view to relieving families struggling with the burden of poverty and insecurity.   In an interactive session with members of the Nigerian community living in France, who lauded President Tinubu for taking bold, decisive and visionary steps in fixing the economy, the Nigerian leader said more creative and innovative policies will be unfolded and implemented in areas that directly impact…

Garus Gololo And His Unguarded Mischievous Outburts Must Stop

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Kalthum Foundation for Peace (KFP), a registered charity based in Nigeria that has collaborated with the military in the North-East in counterterrorism and Counter-insurgency operations through non kinetic approaches receives with great shock the unguarded outbursts of one Garus Gololo against Lt. General TY Buratai, the former Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian. The Foundation believes that there is no need to narrate what Mr. Gololo told the press he told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, to tarnish the golden image of the former COAS because it is not…

Tinubu in Paris: Who Wants to Sabotage his Efforts? By Arabinrin Aderonke Ogunleye-Bello

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The attempts to undermine the achievements of Mr. President during his visit to France is unfair.   These set of people want to diminish the growing popularity and global recognition of Tinubu’s accomplishments within just three weeks of his tenure. However, their efforts will ultimately prove futile.   Firstly, their strategy began with the spread of rumors regarding the increase in electricity tariffs. It is suspicious that such rumors surfaced precisely when Tinubu was diligently working towards revitalizing the Nigerian economy. It appears that their intention is to cause more…

NAF Jet neutralizes scores of terrorists in Sambisa forest

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Several of Boko Haram and its rival terrorists group ISWAP terrorists have been reportedly killed in airstrikes by troops of Air Component operation Hadin Kai, in Sambisa Forest axis of Bama Local Government Area. Sources said the terrorists were eliminated in air strikes carried out in the night of June 21, 2023 in Amchille in Geizuwa. Counter-insurgency expert in the Lake Chad region, Zagazola Makama confirmed the strikes noting that the air component carried out the strikes following credible intelligence of terrorists planning to launch attack. “The jets successfully struck…

Titanic’s crash and anger of Olokun, the Sea goddess By Festus Adedayo

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The world is in a mourning mood. After a fruitless five-day search for a missing deep-sea submersible vessel with five passengers on board, its wreckage was eventually found last Thursday. The five occupants on board were killed in the process. The search had been spearheaded by a robotic diving vehicle deployed from a Canadian ship. The five were on a voyage to see the century-old wreckage of the famous Titanic by the time this catastrophic implosion occurred. The robotic vehicle had found the debris of the submersible Titan on the…

Sex, Pastors and Pastors’ wives By Funke Egbemode ([email protected])

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Today I’m worried about men of God, wet matchboxes and the fire at the base of the mountains of pastors’ wives. I’m worried about pastors who leave their wives’ needs unattended in the name of doing God’s work.   A pastor’s wife was caught pants down with her butt-naked brother-in-law defiling the clergy man’s marriage bed. The video trended for a while, last week. Did you see it? The woman said she was pushed into the act by hunger, sexual hunger. Her pastor husband was focused more on fasting and…

Tinubu and his Special Advisers By Abiodun Komolafe

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Without doubt, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s greatest inner gift is the uncanny ability to deploy native intelligence. Some people rarely talk about it because they didn’t see it coming! Of course, that’s why people didn’t see him coming! Not even the former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Maybe that’s why ‘Balogun Owu’ keeps fighting him like a wounded cobra.   The most brilliant asset that Tinubu represents to Nigeria lies in his antecedents in government and public administration. His pattern creation is legendary. His management and structure sustenance is remarkable. Nigerians are…