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Service commanders of the Rivers State Security Council have paid a condolence visit to Governor Nyesom Wike, over the death of the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Emmanuel Aguma, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN).

The service commanders, who were led by the Assistant Comptroller of Nigeria Customs Service, Zone C, Sanusi Umar, comprised of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Navy, Nigerian Air Force, Department of State Service (DSS), Nigeria Police, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Nigerian Immigration Service, Customs and Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC).

Umar described the late attorney general as a reliable and industrious public officer.

While condoling with the government and people of the state, Customs comptroller said Aguma was a true professional.

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Benue State Government has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of turning itself to the strike squad and law court of the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led Federal Government following the commission’s alleged untoward actions against perceived opponents of the government.
Recall that the anti graft agency only few days ago froze the bank accounts of the state government only to have them unfrozen after huge outcry from Nigerians.

Reacting to Saturday’s publication by the commission where figures were bandied by the commission indicating transactions in bank accounts owned by the state government, the Chief Press Secretary, CPS, to the Governor, Terver Akase in a statement regretted that the anti graft agency had thrown itself into the political arena in contravention of its enabling act.....

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The lawmaker representing Obio/Akpor Constituency I in the Rivers State House of Assembly, Hon Martins Amaewhule, in fulfilment of his electioneering campaign, has empowered farmers in the constituency with N200,000 each.

Speaking while presenting the cash to the farmers at the School-To-Land premises, Rumuodomanya, headquarters of the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area, Amaewhule, who is the majority leader of the House, explained that the gesture was to partner with the School-To-Land in ensuring that the people participate and benefit from the agriculture wealth scheme.

“During our campaign, we promised and assured our people of their full participation in the agriculture wealth scheme, so it is necessary that at this point in time I look into it to enable our farmers improve on their agricultural production,” he stressed, pointing out that agriculture had become a major source of income the world over and puts food on the peoples’ table....

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Ahead of 2019 General elections in Rivers State, Dr Dakuku Peterside, the Director General of Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency, NIMASA, and the former governorship candidate of All Progressive Congress, APC, has vowed that no matter the seeming crisis in party in the state one goals that all members party have resolved is that the Governor Nyesom Wike must be kicked out from office in the 2019 general election.

Peterside who spoke to a cross section of journalists in Port-Harcourt on Sunday claimed that the administration of Nyesom Wike’s has plunged the state to its lowest ebb, especially in display of financial recklessness that has never been witnessed before despite the huge resources accruing to the state through the federal allocations and the Internally Generated Revenue, IGR....

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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has said Rivers people will resist any attempt by the All Progressives Congress (APC) Federal Government to rig the 2019 elections.

Wike said the APC Federal Government has no single project on ground in the state to sell the party’s candidates during the forthcoming elections in 2019.

Speaking during an interview with TVC at the Government House, Port Harcourt, Wike noted that rigging is the only option left for the APC Federal Government. He, however, stated that the option will fail.

He said: “The people will resist. The people will stand their ground and insist that their votes must count. You saw the way the people resisted at the National Assembly when the Department of State Services (DSS) invaded the place, that is how it will be in 2019. The people will stand firm.....

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A former White House staffer has written a book in which she claims she witnessed Donald Trump being racist “many times”.
Racist.

Omarosa Manigault Newman’s title – Unhinged: An Insider Account of the Trump White House – describes the US president as a bigot.

She wrote: “I didn’t want to believe it. I rejected what other people said about him because they didn’t know him like I did.

“I had to go through the pain of witnessing his racism with my own eyes, and hearing it with my own ears, many times, until I couldn’t deny it any longer..”

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An Abuja high court has ordered the Nigerian Police to suspend arrest and questioning of the Senate President Bukola Saraki over Offa Bank robbery.

Some arrested suspects of the bank robbery that led to killings of over 30 people in Offa, Kwara State, earlier this year indicted Saraki as their sponsor.

The Senate President has been summoned several times by the Nigeria Police Force for interrogation and questioning over the April 5 offa robbery attack.....

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Ahead the 2019 election, the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Tuesday, assured that the Muhammadu Buhari-led government would not coerce the media against doing their work in accordance with the dictate of the law.

Mohammed gave the assurance at the opening of a 2-day conference organised by Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) in Abuja.

The theme of the conference is: “Democracy and Disinformation: How Fake News Threaten Our Freedom and Democracy.”

The minister said the greatest danger to 2019 General Elections is fake news, hence, all hand must be on deck to fight the scourge of fake news....

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The Chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum and Governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, has condemned the freezing of the accounts of Akwa Ibom State and its Buenue State counterpart by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC.


Governor Yari said the commission lacks the constitutional powers to do so and should immediately reverse its position.

A statement by Governor Yari on Wednesday, August 8, 2018, stated that, “The freezing of any account of the state government whether Benue or anywhere is unconstitutional and is not right.

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Short of withdrawing its earlier statement condemning the invasion of the National Assembly by the Department of State Services (DSS), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday backed the action, saying it was aimed at frustrating an alleged plot by Senate President Bukola Saraki to stir violence as a ploy to stop his impeachment.

Unwittingly, the APC seemed to have admitted there was indeed a move to sack the Senate president

“Why did the Senate president reconvene the National Assembly? Ostensibly, it was a pre-emptive move to frustrate federal lawmakers’ effort to impeach him,” APC’s acting national publicity secretary, Yekini Nabena, said, urging security agencies to probe the matter.

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Gambo said the gunmen had harassed the cattle, sending them into different directions before grouping leading them to Fan district of Barkin Ladi.

About 82 herds of cattle are still missing after 109 were rustled Monday evening around Kasa, Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State where two Fulani travellers were killed on Sunday.

The Barkin Ladi Secretary of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association in Nigeria (MACBAN), Abubakar Gambo, yesterday told Daily Trust that 27 of the cattle had been recovered by men of Operation Safe Haven who engaged the criminals in a shoot-out...

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Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, Diocese of Aguata, has called on the Federal Government to leave issues of party politics and address the economic crisis and the suffering of Nigerians.

The Bishop, Diocese of Aguata, Rt. Rev. Samuel Ezeofor, made the call while speaking with newsmen shortly after the 13th Diocesan Women Conference of Diocese of Aguata, held at St John the Divine Church, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra State.

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PORT HARCOURT: CHAIRMAN, Ogoni Council of Paramount Rulers, Ogoni, Rivers State, High Chief Barisi Kpaama, has raised the alarm over the menace of oil thieves in his domain and other parts of Niger Delta region, alleging that some security chiefs were aiding and abetting the criminals.

He spoke as the Zonal Director, National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency, NOSDRA, Port Harcourt, Cyrus Nkangwung, blamed the rise in oil bunkering in the oil-rich region on the unavailability of petroleum products at the rural communities.

File: Oil-pipeline

Security chiefs have compromised – Kpaama

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The Police, yesterday, arraigned a 24-year-old barber, David Jude, who allegedly abducted and raped a 16-year-old girl, before a Lagos Magistrate’s court sitting at Ajegunle.

The defendant, who resides on Imam Street, Amukoko, Apapa, is facing a two-count charge of abduction and sexual assault.

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Four persons were on Saturday crushed to death by a tanker in Rumuapara community in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State.

The tanker rammed into a bar where the four persons were drinking, killing all of them on the spot.
It was gathered that the vehicle heading for Eleme Refinery to load petroleum product, skidded off the road due to break failure.

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The African Democratic Congress (ADC), has elected members of its State Working Committee (SWC), of the party in Adamawa state

Delegates from the 21 local government areas, were allowed to choose their leaders, in a contest supervision by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), officials in the state.

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Chelsea goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois, is keen to leave the leave the club this summer according to his agent, Christophe Henrotay.Read More.http://egbechofaith.com/courtois-eager-to-dump-chelsea-for-real-madrid/

A grandmother has reportedly killed her daughter-in-law’s child after having a serious quarrel with the woman.Read More.http://egbechofaith.com/omg-woman-kills-her-grandchild-after-fight-with-daughter-in-law-in-minna/

Manchester City starlet Tosin Adarabioyo is set for a season-long loan deal at West Bromwich Albion, according to reports.Read More.http://egbechofaith.com/man-citys-tosin-adarabioyo-set-for-west-bromwich-loan-deal

THE influence of advertisement of formula milk is a major barrier to exclusive breastfeeding of newborns in Nigeria, a Gynaecologist, Dr Azeez Ojekunle, has said. Read More.http://egbechofaith.com/formula-milk-advertisement-obstacle-to-exclusive-breastfeeding-―-expert

Dozens of screaming fans welcomed Brazil star Neymar on Thursday as he flew in to China to rejoin Paris Saint-Germain after his disappointing World Cup.Read More.http://egbechofaith.com/neymar-rejoins-paris-saint-germain-on-china-tour/