Year: 2018

The Yala PDP Elders Forum in conjunction with other critical stakeholders on Monday endorse and declared support for Senator Dr Rose Oko for Second term. Senator Oko, who is representing Cross River Northern senatorial District in the upper legislative chamber is the chairman Senate Committee on Diaspora and NGOs. The Senator had in recent time received series of endorsements for a second term in office from critical stakeholders including youth groups in the northern part of Cross River State. The meeting of the Yala PDP Elders which took place at…

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….warns against political undertones An anti corruption advocacy group, Centre for Social Justice, Equity and Transparency (CESJET) has written to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara, urging him to direct a total inquiry on the ongoing Investigative Hearing on the activities of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). The letter addressed to the Speaker and signed by CESJET’s legal adviser, Edward Omaga, Esq said the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee on Emergency and Disaster Preparedness should be directed to invite the former NEMA DG, Alhaji…

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Indications have emerged that there are more than meets the eyes in the ordeal of the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Engr. Mustapha Maihaja, at the House of Representatives. The Reps’ Committee on Emergency and Disaster Management is investigating alleged diversion of funds approved for NEMA under Maihaja whilst abandoning credible evidence of corruption uncovered by the EFCC. The committee is investigating how the Maihaja managed monies made available to NEMA within one year. The funds include: N5.9 billion food intervention for North East; N3.1 billion food intervention…

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Ahead of 2019 general election, Prominent youth groups in Okpoma, Voice of Okpoma and Okpoma Elite Group on Saturday declared their unalloyed support for the senatorial reelection bid of Senator Rose Okoji Oko. Senator Oko is representing Cross River North in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly. The leaders of the group’s who spoke separately, hailed the senator for her sterling qualities, legislative impact and development strides through her intervention projects. They assured that they are on ground to mobilize massive support for the Senator Dr Oko and…

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A group, the Benue Proactive Initiative (BPI), has revealed that yesterday’s attack on personnel of the Nigerian Army which led to the death of a soldier in Naka, Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue state was the handiwork of miscreants whose past time is getting high on cheap drugs. The group, which stated that the restive youths on Wednesday night killed and buried a Nigerian Army officer after disarming him, strongly condemned the act as barbaric, wicked and malicious. Convener of PBI, Comrade Terkaa Jam made this known in…

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Nigerians in the Diaspora under the auspices of Nigerians in Diasporas Monitoring Group, NDMG, have stated that the recent call by the Senate for President Muhammadu Buhari to sack the nation’s service chiefs is in furtherance of their ploy to separate the President from his appointees who are diligent. The Nigerians living abroad dismissed the state of insecurity on which the lawmakers predicated their call as a smokescreen, stressing that security breaches that would have been insignificant in the past are now being highlighted for public attention owing to the…

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The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Uja Tor Uja has called on the federal government to invest massively in the aviation sector. He disclosed this in Abuja while playing host to the Management team of Nigeria College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, led by Capt. Jim Hassan. Uja said, “I will like the Federal Government to make a heavy investment in the Aviation industry”. He explained that our competencies are high but our investments are very low”. The executive secretary further stressed that Nigeria has all…

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The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Rev. Uja Tor Uja has called on the federal government to invest massively in the aviation sector. He disclosed this in Abuja while playing host to the Management team of Nigeria College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, led by Capt. Jim Hassan. Uja said, “I will like the Federal Government to make a heavy investment in the Aviation industry”. He explained that our competencies are high but our investments are very low”. The executive secretary further stressed that Nigeria has all…

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