Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers on Tuesday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for appointing new service chiefs for the country. The governor made this known on Tuesday in Port Harcourt in a statement by Mr Paulinus Nsirim, the state Commissioner for Information and Communications. He noted that although the appointments came late, the president should be commended for listening to the voice of the people. The governor urged the new appointees to see their appointments as an opportunity to re-engineer the nation’s security architecture which saw tremendous challenges in the last five years. “The new Service Chiefs should not politicise security…
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The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, has said that the government was exploring opportunities for mutual collaborations with Canada on COVID-19 response and other health care interventions. Abayomi disclosed this through a series of tweets on his official Twitter account @ProfAkinAbayomi on Tuesday. The commissioner said that the collaboration was discussed during a courtesy visit of the Acting High Commissioner of Canada, Mr Nicolas Simard, to his office. According to him, the meeting which is at the instance of the Canadian High Commission, is aimed at exploring opportunities for mutual collaborations with Lagos government and its health…
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated an 18-member Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme, with Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Farouq as the chairman. This is contained in a statement signed by Mrs Nneka Anibeze, the Special Assistant on Media to the minister on Tuesday in Abuja. The statement said Buhari charged Farouq’s ministry to coordinate and lead the deployment of a National Plan to address the issue of out-of-school children in the country. The president said it was unacceptable to see children abandoning formal school to engage in menial jobs and child labour in…
The Director-General Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, says 70 lockup shops have been destroyed by fire in Alade Market in Somolu He added that goods worth millions of Naira were also damaged by the inferno. According to him, the Agency received distress calls on Tuesday at 1.05 a.m. concerning the fire outbreak in Alade Market. “We commenced fire suppression activities immediately we arrived at Somolu market and investigation revealed that the fire was likely from a voltage surge when power supply was restored. “LASEMA fire fighters with the Lagos State and Federal Fire Services worked tirelessly…
A Kaduna State High Court, on Tuesday, adjourned the trial of the leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Ibrahim El Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat, until March 8 and March 9. The adjournment followed Justice Gideon Kurada’s ruling in an application by the counsel to defendants, Mr Eddie Inegedu, representing Mr Femi Falana, requested for time to preview a video brought to court by two prosecution witnesses. Inegedu told reporters after the trial, that the court admitted one of the two witnesses brought by the prosecution. He said the second witness was not admitted because the defence team needed…
Finally, president Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, having faced intense public pressure, sacked his service chiefs, who ironically have overstayed their tenure for several years. Those sacked include, Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. In the same vein, Buhari also appointed new Service Chiefs including, Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air…
The troops of Operation Tura Takaibango, a subsidiary of Operation Lafiya Dole, have overran more Boko Haram/Islamic States West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists’ enclaves, killing scores in Borno and Yobe. The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, in a statement on Tuesday, said the enclaves were located at Chindila town in Yobe and Mayankari in Borno. Onyeuko said the troops of 233 Battalion on Monday, made contact with the terrorists during an aggressive clearance patrol at Chindila village. He said the troops engaged the terrorists with fierce volume of fire and neutralised five of them in the process,…
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, has charged the new Service Chiefs, appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, to be the professional soldiers that they are and not politicians in uniform. Buhari accepted the resignation of service chiefs and appointed new ones in their place. CISLAC in a statement by its Executive Director, Auwal Rafsanjani and made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday said, while it is “Good enough that their credentials suggest that they are well experienced in tactics and strategy, which is the immediate fresh breath that is required to engage,…they should not be politicians in uniform.…
President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced the Service Chiefs and their retirement from service, after they tendered their letters in that regard. His spokesperson, Femi Adesina confirmed this development in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Those that resigned the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. Meanwhile, Buhari has approved the appointment of new Service Chiefs. They are Maj.-Gen. Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Maj.-Gen. I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Adm. A.…
After unheard calls by Nigerians for a change of the leadership of the Nigeria’s service chiefs, President Muhammadu Buhari, has finally replaced then with new ones. The new ones include: Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff. Details later…