Year: 2018

Buratai: A General With Many Sides By Ifure Ifure

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Whether it is a fact or farce, in time past, Nigerians came to believe every Army personnel is brute, cruel, inhuman, and sadistic and almost like a beast. In Nigeria, they are stereotyped as permeated with the mentality of demigods of this world, who are very ferocious and hardly relate, with civilians on a template of civility and dignity as fellow human beings. Much of the hatred some Nigerians extended to soldiers before the emergence of the current Chief of Army of Staff (COAS) Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusufu Buratai stemmed…

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PMB’s Supporters Caution Against Alleged Plans To Transfer Operation Safe Haven Commander

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Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari at the North Central zone have appealed to him to stop alleged planned redeployment of the Commander of Operation Safe Haven, Major General Anthony Atolagbe, from the state. They claimed that if the redeployment was carried out now,it would further fuel the beliefs in some quarters that the killings especially the latest ones in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of the state, were orchestrated by people loyal to the presidency and the APC. The group’s appeal to the president was in reaction to social media…

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Pilgrimage: NCPC Sets Up Stringent Measures To Curb Abscondment, Identifies 5 Red States

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The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Tor Uja has said that the Commission has identified five red states where abcondment of pilgrims are prevalent and would beam its searchlight on those states. He disclosed this in Abuja during the submission of the 2017 pilgrimage report to NCPC by members of the Security Committee. According to the NCPC boss, “any pilgrim that will travel from the five red States must pass through the eye of the needle”. He informed that the Commission has introduced a number…

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Imoke @57: Sen Rose Oko, Hon Jarigbe Hail Ex-governor, Say He Is Model Of Humility

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As former Cross River State governor, Senator Liyel Imoke clocks 57 on Tuesday, July 10 2018, Senator Rose Oko, representing Cross River Northern Senatorial district and Hon Jarigbe Agom representing Ogoja/Yala federal constituency in the 8th National Assembly, have described him as a true leader and model of humility. Senator Oko, who is the chairman Senate Committee on Diaspora and Non Governmental Organizations in her birthday message to the ex-governor said, he is an enigma, a strategist and leader per excellence. She said, “On behalf of the good people of…

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Tears Of Joy As NGO Resettles IDPs In Northern Borno

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Following the final decapitation of the dreaded Boko Haram terrorists and the complete return of peace to the Northeast, the Peace Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Initiative (PRRI) has resettled over 1000 displaced persons into their communities. The Boko Haram insurgency which began an armed rebellion against the Nigerian state in 2012 with the aide of international conspirators like Amnesty International and a host of others took a substantial part of the Northeast of Nigeria thereby rendering millions homeless while killing unarmed civilians and raping women in uncountable numbers. The renewed commitment…

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A Soldier’s Letter Of Gratitude To General Buratai

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A soldier in the Army who is currently serving in the northeast described the Chief of Army Staff,Lt. General T.Y Buratai in his letter titled MR. WELFARE as, “…leader of the anti-terrorism campaigns in Nigeria” whose re-orientation and repositioning of the Nigerian Army on the path of professionalism, patriotism and loyalty to our country, are virtuous that have etched indelibly on his psyche. The soldier who preferred to remain anonymous but identified himself as S.O Udo said that he served Nigeria as an Army officer for 35 years. “And my…

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Saraki Hails Supreme Court Verdict, Says Trial Politically Motivated

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Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki has reiterated his confidence in the judicial process and the ability of the Judiciary to do justice to all manner of men and in all circumstances. In a statement personally signed by him after the judgement of the Supreme Court which upheld the earlier decision of the Code of Conduct Tribunal discharging and acquitting him of all 16 charges instituted against him, Saraki expressed gratitude to all Nigerians who have supported him since the case commenced three years ago. “At the end of a…

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Celebrating The Nigerian Soldier On 6th July 2018 By Brigadier General SK Usman

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Today Friday 6th July 2018, the Nigerian Army is celebrating its day for the year 2018, (NADCEL 2018) in Monguno, Borno State. This is unique and a sharp departure from the usual parade, combat march past, weaponry and equipment displays usually at the Eagle Square in Abuja or any of the big cities in the country. That is the not the style of Nigerian Army of today under the able leadership of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General TY Buratai, a soldier’s soldier and the man who made history…

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Resign To Save Nigeria’s Image, Ex-Senate President Writes Saraki

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Former Senate President and elder statesman, Senator Ameh Ebute, has called on Bukola Saraki, President of the 8th Senate to immediately resign in order to save the image of the entity called Nigeria. Ebute, who was President of the Nigerian Senate during the end of the third republic, in a thought-provoking letter addressed to Saraki and obtained by our reporter on Friday, hinged his reason on the fact that Saraki had succeed in turning the Red Chamber into a combat theatre by protecting the abominable and despising truth. The Benue-born…

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CBN Mourns Former Governor, Adamu Ciroma

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With a deep sense of loss, the Governor and Management of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) announce the passage of Mallam Adamu Ciroma, who died on July 5, 2018. He was the Governor of the Bank from September 24, 1975 to June 28 1977. Mallam Ciroma was born on November 20 1934 in Potiskum, Yobe State. He was a graduate of University of Ibadan and served in different capacities in the Public Service. He was appointed to the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1970 where he…

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