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Obi Appreciates Supporters, Warns Against Online Parody Accounts, Impersonation

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Peter Obi

The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has once again, appreciated his numerous supporters across the nation, saying that the journey to rescuing the country will be difficult without them, while notifying the public of the various acts of impersonation against him on the internet.

In a Statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media,  Mr. Valentine Obienyem, Obi stated that, of all the social media platforms,  he only operates on Twitter at the moment. He said that his Twitter handle remains @PeterObi and tweets from him are marked PO.

Obi explained that the disclosure was imperative to avoid usually dubious characters  or the opposition trying to mischievously or criminally exploit the name to other uses.  He enjoined all his supporters, and indeed Nigerians, to be wary of any social media account showing his name and pictures as not authentically his.

“The OBIdients and Mr Obi’s other  numerous supporters, and indeed, Nigerians in general, are enjoined to be wary of any such unauthoirized social media accounts, specifically on Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, which have been opened and are operated in his name

“While I understand the zeal, enthusiam and passion of those operating these accounts, I wish to state categorically,  that I did not create nor authorise anyone to create and manage such accounts on my behalf,” part of the Statement read.

“In due time, “The Obidient Movement”, will open up more communications channels with which we can interact with all Obidients, as we march to take back our nation and reposition it on the path of progress,” he concluded.

Handing Over: Ekiti, Osun Set Up Coordinating Committees

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Ayodele Oni
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Biodun Oyebanji

By Ayodele Oni

A 46-member committee to coordinate activities marking the end of the tenure of the present administration in Ekiti state as well as the inauguration ceremonies for the incoming administration of Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji has been constituted.

The new administration is billed to take off on October 16.

The Committee is chaired by Ekiti State First Lady, Erelu Bisi Fayemi,  while Wife of the Governor-elect, Dr (Mrs) Olayemi Oyebanji is Co-Chairperson.

A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor,  Yinka Oyebode, stated that Mr Seun Odewale, Director General, Bureau of Public Procurement, will serve as Secretary to the committee.

The Committee, among other tasks, will liaise with relevant organs of Government, groups and individuals in organizing programmes commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Dr Kayode Fayemi’s second term administration (JKF-2), as well as activities ushering in the incoming administration.

Also, in Osun state, the Governor elect, Ademola Adeleke has anounced a 37-member Transition Committee to facilitate a smooth transition between the incumbent and the newly elected administration in the state.

A statement issued by the Media office of the Governor-elect disclosed that the Transition Committee is made up of seasoned technocrats, present and former public office holders and experts from a diverse field of endeavour.

The Committee is to be Chaired by Dr Muyiwa Oladimeji while the Director-General of Ademola Adeleke Campaign Organisation, Sunday Bisi, will serve as Deputy Chairman.

The Secretary of the Transition committee is a serving member of the House of Representatives, Bamidele Salam, and will be assisted by a Project management expert, Sir Adekunle Adepoju.

The Transition Committee will be inaugurated by the Governor-elect on Thursday.

Osun state House of Assembly had on Monday commenced transition  process with a State of Osun Transition Bill 2022.

The Speaker, of the Assembly,  Timothy Owoeye, during plenary, presented a private member bill drafted by him tagged ‘State of Osun Transition Bill 2022’ signaling the commencement of hand-over of power from the All Progressive Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Ekweremadu’s Wife Granted Bail, Senator Still In Custody

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Akinwale Kasali
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Ike Ekweremadu and his Wife

By Akinwale Kasali

It is still a long walk ahead for embattled Senator Ike Ekweremadu. For the third time, a United Kingdom Court has denied him bail.

His wife, Beatrice, with whom he was arrested was luckier than him. She was granted bail on Monday, July 25th, 2022, under what the Judge said was “fairly stringent.”

According to Judge Michael Marks, “The position is that I have granted bail to Beatrice subject to some fairly stringent conditions but I have refused bail to Ike”.

It was gathered the Prosecutors are not appealing the decision, the court heard.

The couple was arrested in the UK on 21st June, 2022 after flying into Heathrow from Turkey.

They were accused of trafficking a 21-year-old Nigerian, who was initially said to be an underage to London to harvest his kidney for their ailing daughter. Both have been in custody since then.

Nigeria’s Security Service Warns About Fresh Terrorists Attacks

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Ayodele Oni
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By Ayodele Oni

Again Nigeria Secret Security Service, has alerted on plots by two terrorist groups to launch attacks in some parts of the country.

The warning, coming at the wake of gunmen attack of a police divisional office, in Akure, Ondo state capital on Monday, is contained in a letter from top echelon of the State Security Services (SSS) to States.

Dated 25th July, and signed by DD Mungadi, a Deputy Commandant General of the SSS, it is titled “Heightened Plots By Terrorists To Stage Coordinated Attacks In Parts Of The Country.”

It reads “We have received credible intelligence that Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorist groups have mobilized fighters and high caliber weapons, particularly Rocket Propelled Grenade, (RPG) launchers, Anti Aircraft, (AA) guns and General Purpose Machine Guns, (GPMGS), which they intend to deploy for offensive in Katsina state.

“In another development, two separate bandit groups are plotting coordinated attacks on Northwest, North central and South West(Katsina, Zamfara, Kaduna, Kogi, FCT and Lagos) respectively.

“Consequently, the Commandant General has directed you scale up deployments in all strategic places including schools, worship centres and critical national assets in your respective states to checkmate any possible threat by these criminal elements.”

Meanwhile an activist, has been reportedly kidnapped Monday evening at Owo in Ondo state.

The victim, Chief Folahanmi Olaniyi, is also the spokesman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Owo local Government area.

It was gathered that the incident happened while the victim and two others were returning from their Office along the Upenmen-Owo road.

His car was reportedly left on the highway, with its doors open, and till this moment, his whereabout, cannot be traced.

A Press Release signed by the Owo Local Government Area Students President, Ojigbo Adewunmi, and the General Secretary Emmanuel Amos said “sadly, the State Government and other elective office holders, ranging from the National Assembly to the State Assembly representatives have failed to face the necessary, to prevent reoccurrence and that is why we are still here today, living in the fears of who knows the next victim.”

“The Continued cases of insecurity, killings and kidnapping, in and across Owo is one too many. We must at this point challenge all security forces, within and outside the Owo Local Government, to rise and be alive to their responsibilities, before our dear land finally becomes a den for the evil ones.

“However, this dastardly act is a direct attack on the entire Students of Owo Local Government and we are condemning it, in all strong terms. We are  calling on the State Government and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the immediate and unconditional release of our Leader and one of our past Presidents.”

Ecobank Customers To Receive Foreign Remittance Direct Into Accounts

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Tosin Olatokunbo
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Ecobank Nigeria says business account holders can now receive funds from anywhere in the world through its various innovative remittance services such as Ecobank Rapidtransfer, the Business to Business, B2B, Business to Customer, B2C and Customers to Business, C2B.  

The Pan-African bank said through the Head of Consumer Banking Korede Demola – Adeniyi, that individuals and corporate organizations can now receive monies from any part of the world into their domiciliary accounts, adding that any customer who wishes to open a domiciliary account for that purpose will be assisted to do that seamlessly.

Adeniyi explained that, the Jubril Mobolaji Lawal-led commercial bank is trying to provide Nigerians with a seamless remittance service through the bank’s various channels such as Rapidtransfer app, Ecobank Online, Ecobank Mobile App, etc.  

The bank, she said is “excited about these and other future collaborations as our contributions to drive remittance inflows into the country, promotes trade and foreign direct investments, create businesses, spur entrepreneurship, and generally develop the Nigerian economy.

“Some of the benefits for business account holders includes no limits to how much they can receive, no hidden charges and there is also the opportunity to invest the funds received in foreign currency at a competitive rate.

“The Rapidtransfer is our proprietary product. It is licensed by the nation’s apex bank; Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as an international money transfer product and it is also licensed in Europe.

“Diaspora remittances can be sent from anywhere in the world using the Rapidtransfer app – available for download in the Google play and iOS stores.”

Ecobank Nigeria has extended its innovative remittance services to its business account holders.

Ecobank Nigeria has launched Rapidtransfer, a banking solution application that anyone to receive funds from anywhere in the world.

“Fast and Easy. With the Rapidtransfer International app you can now send money to your loved ones in Africa from France and 14 other European countries,” the Pan-African bank said on its website.

The magazine learnt that the solution is part of the efforts by the Jubril Mobolaji Lawal-led commercial bank to enable customers to receive funds seamlessly from any part of the world without going through unnecessary hassles.

The product, industry watchers insist will enhance foreign remittance, because no limit is placed on how much can be transferred by individuals of corporate bodies.

This will in turn raise the foreign direct investment, FDI into the country, according to keen financial watchers who say the product is essential for a country like Nigeria which is in dire need of huge foreign investment to boost its economy.

Through Rapidtransfer, the bank said Business Account holders can now receive funds sent through any of its Remittance franchise partners; the Business to Business (B2B), Business to Customer (B2C) and Customers to Business (C2B) transaction directly into their business accounts.

Speaking on the app, Head of Consumer Banking Korede Demola – Adeniyi, said Rapidtransfer affords Nigerian business owners to receive funds from individuals and corporate organizations anywhere in the world instantly to their Ecobank domiciliary accounts.

He explained that any customer desirous of opening a domiciliary account for the purpose will be aided to do so effortlessly.

Adeniyi listed the various channels which these remittances can be accessed as Rapidtransfer app, Ecobank Mobile App, Ecobank Online, and any of the bank branches.

According to her, “For us as a bank, we are excited about these and other future collaborations as our contributions to drive remittance inflows into the country, promotes trade and foreign direct investments, create businesses, spur entrepreneurship, and generally develop the Nigerian economy.

“Some of the benefits for business account holders includes no limits to how much they can receive, no hidden charges and there is also the opportunity to invest the funds received in foreign currency at a competitive rate.”

“The Rapidtransfer is our proprietary product. It is licensed by the nation’s apex bank; Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) as an international money transfer product and it is also licensed in Europe. Diaspora remittances can be sent from anywhere in the world using the Rapidtransfer app – available for download in the Google play and iOS stores.”

You Will Pay N10bn If You Insult Me On Twitter, Facebook-Pastor Ibiyeomi Warns Netizens

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Tosin Olatokunbo
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, Pastor David Ibiyeomie

The general overseer of Salvation Ministries, Pastor David Ibiyeomie has warned netizens to stop insulting him on social media. The Rivers state based pastor said anyone who cast aspersion on him from now on will be arrested and charged to court to pay at least “N10 billion” fine.

He also threatened to arrest the parents of anyone who insults him, so as to serve as deterrence to others who may want to tow the same line of action.

Ibiyeomi is regarded by many as a controversial man of God due to some of his comments on salient public issues. Just few months ago, he said only poor people keep their telephone on during church service.

He said, “Anyone whose phone rings in church is a poor man; his thinking is poor. Rich people don’t switch on their phones in church because they don’t want anybody to disturb them.

” But poor people switch it on because they want alert; It is a sign of poverty. You will never see a wealthy man switch on his phone in church, he will say,” I want to hear something that will help improve my life. But the poor will say, “make I see weda somebody go send me money”. It is a poverty mentality. You are in a church where the poor come and become wealthy.

“Off your phone but if your phone rings you have signed up for poverty. Your mentality is poor, it’s not money in your pocket yet. Somebody say I hear.”

Also, he once drew the ire of not a few Nigerians after he threatened to kill Dr Freeze, a radio presenter for allegedly insulting Bishop David Oyedepo of the Living Faith Church aka Winners Chapel. The 59-year-old pastor studied under Bishop Oyedepo’s tutelage before establishing his ministry in 1997.

Warning Freeze then he said, ‘If he insults me, I won’t mind; but insult Oyedepo, that bastard who is his father? Does Daddy Freeze have a father? That bastard who was born by a Somalian. The day I hear him insult Oyedepo again I’ll deal with him’’.

‘‘If he has a father let him show us his father’s picture. Someone they gave birth to in a ship. Does he look like a Nigerian? I curse the day he was born.”

‘‘He is insulting my own father and people are laughing. Anybody may not talk but I will talk. I will never be alive and see somebody insult my father. It is not done. You are not born. I will kill you; I will tear you into pieces. Very soon I will arrest him,’’ Ibiyeomi said in September 2020.

Speaking last Sunday at his church in Port Harcourt, the controversial man of God said he would no longer accept insults from anyone, saying that many netizens are jobless people who take advantage of the social media to verbally attacks others.

He said any one who intrude on his privacy will no longer go scot-free, promising to “arrest you arrest your father, your mother. I lock you up.”

According to him, “All those people who are on their laptop now, who have no work. They won’t listen to what I am preaching. They are waiting for me to say something then they say.

“You won’t hear what I am preaching. Your work is to sit down on the laptop. I’m preaching now, some people on social media.. all they do.. That’s why they are not progressing because all they do is to listen for what I will say so they can misquote me. If you misquote me…, just misquote me; I will fight you spiritually, physically, legally

“I have made up my mind. Nobody on social media insuIt me. I will arrest you arrest your father, your mother. I lock you up. You know the reason? It is because you don’t lock people up, that is why they are joking. It is against ethics to misquote somebody.

“I will take legal action against you. By the time I tell you 10 billion Naira damage, because my capacity is 50 billion. All your life’s savings, you will pay. When somebody misquotes you, don’t take it for granted. Do you know it is against the law for somebody to snap you in public without your permission? Ask lawyers they will tell you.

“You are intruding into my privacy; I sue you. By the time I claim N10 to 20 billion, your father and your mother will come and beg. I will follow you with police, army, prayer, everything. Next time you will learn how to talk.

“If anybody insults you don’t say “church; arrest the person”. Lock the person up, go to court, win the case, let the judges sentence him to imprisonment with green uniform. The person will leave you alone,” Ibiyeomi said.

Flogging Of Train Abductees: APC, Buhari Have Traumatised Nigerians

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Kaduna-Abuja Train Victim being Tortured

In reaction to the traumatising video where terrorists were whipping and torturing victims of Abuja-Kaduna bound Train, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has expressed distress over the viral video.

At a Press Conference addressed by its National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, the PDP said it is “deeply saddened, alarmed and distressed by the video of terrorists mercilessly flogging, inflicting grievous bodily harm, and threatening to sell into slavery and kill traumatised victims of the bloody Abuja-Kaduna train attack who have been held in captivity since March 28, 2022, 120 days today.”

The Party says it was “heartbreaking to watch fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, helpless children, compatriots and citizens of Nigeria in captivity and being tortured, brutalised, humiliated and crying in pain, agony and anguish.”

Lamenting the loss of leadership in the country, the PDP said: “This is not politics, this is about humanity and leadership, which leadership sadly and unfortunately is missing in our country at this time.”

Following, the full text of the Press Conference.

Press Conference by the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon. Debo Ologunagba, Monday, July 25, 2022, on the Traumatizing Video on the Dehumanizing Treatment Inflicted on Victims of Kaduna/Abuja Train Terrorism Attack.

APC Has Irretrievably Failed our Nation.

“The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is deeply saddened, alarmed and distressed by the video of terrorists mercilessly flogging, inflicting grievous bodily harm and threatening to sell into slavery and kill traumatized victims of the bloody Abuja/Kaduna train attack who have been held in captivity since March 28, 2022 exactly 120 days today.

“It is indeed heartbreaking to watch fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, helpless children; compatriots and citizens of Nigeria in captivity and being tortured, brutalized, humiliated and crying in pain, agony and anguish just because we have the misfortune of being under the All Progressives Congress (APC) government that have proven to be derelict, irresponsible, unconcerned and completely numb to the pains and sufferings of our citizens.

“The emotional toll of this sad incident on the victims, their families and the entire nation cannot be quantified, particularly on the younger generation who witnessed the humiliation of their parents and breadwinners in such gruesome circumstance.

“This will certainly have a generational consequence on the emotional and psychological makeup of our young persons with the possibility of losing faith in our nation and the capacity for empathy.

“Indeed, as a Party, our hearts bleed! The APC government has irretrievably failed our nation. Under the APC, Nigeria is fast sliding into a Hobbesian State where Rule of Law, Order and leadership are absent and where cruel, inhumane and insensitive bunch of human beings in government have abandoned our citizens to killers, terrorists and bandits.

“This disquieting video is a heartrending testament of the reported complicity and failure of the APC government to take decisive actions to rescue the victims since the gruesome train attack in which very promising Nigerians including a 29 years old female medical doctor was brutally killed and others taken captive by terrorists since then.

“It is a painful commentary on the continuing mass killing by terrorists in various parts of our country as well as a confirmation of the agony of hundreds of our citizens including students, who are being tortured and executed in countless terrorists’ dens enabled by the APC government.

“Nigerians can recall how the PDP on various occasions alerted that the APC government has ceded sovereignty over a large portion of our country to terrorists, many of whom were imported into our country by the APC.

“From the video, in a brazen manner, terrorists as non-state actors boldly showed their faces, boasting, admitting and confirming their participation in the Kuje Prison break, some of whom were former prison inmates who were either jailed or awaiting trial for their previous terrorism act against our country.

“Nigerians can equally recall the confession by the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai that the APC government knows the plans and whereabouts of the terrorists but failed to act.

“Between 2020 and 2022 about 18,000 Nigerians have been killed by terrorists who continue to be emboldened by the failures and obvious complicity of the APC and to which the PDP had always drawn attention.

“This is not politics; this is about humanity and leadership, which leadership sadly and unfortunately is missing in our country at this time.

“The PDP is appalled by the lame response by the apparently helpless, clueless and deflated Buhari Presidency, wherein it told an agonizing nation that President Buhari “has done all and even more than what was expected of him as Commander in Chief by way of morale, material and equipment support to the military…”

“This is a direct admission of incapacity and failure by the Buhari Presidency and the APC. At such a time, in other climes, the President directly leads the charge and takes drastic measures to rescue and protect his citizens.

“In time of adversity, the President transmutes into Consoller-in-Chief to give hope and succour to the citizens. Painfully, Nigeria does not have a President who cares and can stand as Consoller-in-Chief to the citizens.

“It has now become very imperative for Nigerians to take note and realize that the only solution to this unfortunate situation is to hold the APC government accountable. We must come together as a people, irrespective of our political, ethnic and religious affiliations to resist the fascist-leaning tendencies of the APC administration.

“Our nation must not fall. The resilient Nigerian spirit and “can-do- attitude” must be rekindled by all to prevail on the President to immediately and without further delay, accede to the demand by the PDP and other well-meaning Nigerians to convene a special session of the National Council of State to find a lasting solution since the President has, in his own admission, come to his wits end.”

Insecurity: Buhari’s Indifference Shocking – Yoruba Global Alliance

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Adesina Soyooye
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By Adesina Soyooye

A group, Yoruba Global Alliance, has decried what it termed as the indifference of President Muhammadu Buhari to the unprecedented Insecurity bedevilling the country.

In a statement signed by its National Chairman, High Chief  Tola Adeniyi, and National President, Amos Arogundade  Akingba, the group said: “Nigerians are saddened and depressed that their President in whom they entrusted their safety, security and general well-being could display the unprecedented Indifference to their suffering and haplessness in the face of ceaseless attacks by bandits and terrorists across the country.”

The Group’s strongly-worded statement is a consequence of the hard to-watch viral video  where terrorists who abducted passengers from an Abuja-Kaduna bound Train were seen mercilessly flogging them.

Said the statement: “The video which has gone viral showing the dastardly treatment being meted out to the remaining abductees of the March 28, 2022, train bombardment along Abuja-Kaduna highway calls for immediate action by any responsible Government.”

It asked President Buhari to live upto his reputation as a two-star Army General.

The statement reads in full;

Buhari Must Act Now – Statement By Yoruba Global Alliance

“Nigerians are saddened and depressed that their President in whom they entrusted their safety, security and general wellbeing could display the unprecedented indifference to their suffering and haplessness in the face of ceaseless attacks by bandits and terrorists across the country.

“The Yoruba Global Alliance, a leading Self-Determination Organization along with our allies, the Yoruba Global Congress and the Yoruba Unseen as well as millions of Yoruba people at home and abroad call on Major General Muhammadu Buhari to live up to his reputation as a 2-star General to take immediate action to redeem his image.

“The video which has gone viral showing the dastardly treatment being meted out to the remaining abductees of the March 28, 2022 train bombardment along Abuja-Kaduna highway calls for immediate action by any responsible government.

That some rag-tag jackals in human form could descend to this abysmal fiendish bestiality and inflict punishment by flogging their victims shows to what extent terrorists in Nigeria disregard the government and security agencies in the land.

“What is it that has tied the hands of the security agencies? The entire areas where terrorists are holding sway are located in plains or Savanah grassland where there are no thick bushes or forests. Government has on many occasions admitted they know the locations of these bandits. They know their phone numbers. They know their leaders. Dr Gumi and ‘Jihadist’ El-Rufai are their liaisons.

“It is unfortunate that Nigeria would allow their citizens to wallow in captivity right on Nigerian soil and governments, state and Federal, would be unconcerned and unsympathetic towards their plight.

“We call on Buhari to imagine for a moment if his only son was among those being gleefully flogged or if his beautiful daughters including stooge Malami’s 3rd wife were among those being bedraggled and humiliated in full glare of the camera. Atiku, Tinubu, Obi, Kwankwaso and other political shadow-chasers who are begging for people’s votes while the same citizenry is going through hell should march to Buhari in Aso Rock and demand an immediate intervention from the President and the Armed Forces he commands as Commander-in-Chief.

“President Buhari can use his executive powers to immediately flush out all the imported terrorists stationed in targets across the country, allow for immediate establishment of state police, stop the nonsensical ideas of RUGA and Water Bill, ban Okada operations throughout the country and perish the ruinous scheme of ethnic cleansing with view to handing over indigenous nationalities ancestral lands to some foreigners. If he can do these few things, his 7-year-old sins will be written off.

“The horrendous humiliation, degradation and tortuous inhumanity which has pervaded the country’s entire landscape should stop.

“We wish to remind General Buhari that all those flatterers, court jesters, sycophants and political jobbers milling round him and deceiving him will not be there with him on the Day of Judgment. The Holy Qur’an and the Holy Bible say so. In fact, come May 30 2023, they will all disappear into thin air!

“Our President’s name is Buhari, nobody should rename him Nero at age 80.”

Bandits Release Three More Abducted Train Passengers

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Adesina Soyooye
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By Adesina Soyooye

After the horrifying and heartbreaking whipping of the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna Train Passengers seen in a video released on Sunday, their abductors have released three more of the Passengers.

The haunting video showed the bandits mercilessly whipping their victims. There were children amongst them. Thereafter, the bandits boasted that they would abduct President Muhammadu Buhari and the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, take them to the forest and slaughter them.

The Presidency reacted to the outrage by saying the President had done even more than is required of him as the Commander-in-Chief to equip the Military to do its job.

Far from being clueless, the Presidency said, the Military is capable of bombing the location of the bandits, but is conscious of the collateral damages. The Passengers, it said could, also, be wiped out.

However, 24 hours later, the bandits released three more of the Passengers – two men and a woman.

It is not known the circumstances behind the recent release, but it is alleged that those that had been released, paid N100m each.

A relation of one of the three released told the BBC Hausa Service that the three released Passengers were now in a hospital for necessary health care.

The Train Passengers were abducted on March 28, 2022.

No Hand In Oziza FM Closure, Says Imo State Government 

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Hope Uzodimma

The Imo State Government has denied responsibility in the shutting down of a local radio station operating in Owerri by the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC).

The Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Hon Declan Emelumba, said all inquiries as to why Oziza FM was closed indefinitely should go to the NBC.

He described as unfortunate and unfounded the wild allegation by Chief Uche Onyeagucha that the Government   was responsible for the closure of the Station.

” First of all, I am shocked that a Lawyer of Uche Onyeagucha’s  standing doesn’t know that there are rules governing the operation of broadcast media and that the regulatory body has power to sanction any station that runs foul of the rules,” Emelumba said.

He added that Onyeagucha should have remembered that sometime in February this year, the NBC slammed the same Osiza FM for employing a quack as one of its presenters.

“There was no Awo Omama incident that time so it is fatuous for Onyeagucha not to see a link  between the February sanction of the radio station and its present ordeal,” he explained.

According to him, if Onyeagucha was one of those who goaded the station to breach the rules, they should bear the consequences instead of making the State Government the scapegoat and linking it to the Awo Omama incident.

He noted that the State Government has no power to regulate the conduct of the press let alone gag them.

Said he: “It is either the man is ignorant or mischievous because the laws are there to regulate the conduct of the press and media practitioners. Governor Hope Uzodimma didn’t make those laws.”

The Commissioner regretted that Onyeagucha who is of the opposition PDP has found it convenient to disparage the name of the State Governor at every point.

According to Emelumba, while it was understandable that the emergence of Uzodinma as Governor led to Onyeagucha’s ouster as Secretary to the Government, he ought to have moved on and adjusted to the reality of his fate instead of constantly engaging in criminal libel against the Government.

Emelumba said blackmailing the Governor to gain cheap political relevance would never win him any election, rather it will continue to expose him as an immature, temperamental and irrational person, unfit to occupy an exalted seat in the red Chambers.

“My sincere advice to him is to concentrate on his already ill-fated campaign instead of the consistent name calling of the Governor. His popularity will be tested at the ballots,not on the number of press releases he churns out against Uzodimma,” Emelumba submitted.

Meanwhile, in a statement, the Management of the Station decried the different inciting speculations over the suspension of the Station, and said that whatever was the reason is being sorted out between it and the NBC.

It, also, denied being owned by the Catholic Church Archdiocese of Owerri as has been erroneously believed. It said it only leased an office within the premises of the Assumpta Cathedral for its operations.

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