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The NDLEA in Benue State has awarded the outgoing Commanding Officer (CO) 72 Special Forces Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Abdulkadir Alhassan, the title of War Against Drug Abuse Ambassador (WADA).

Alhassan received the award at the battalion’s North Bank headquarters.
Mrs Esther Musa, NDLEA State Commander, said Alhassan was instrumental in her command’s huge successes in 2021 operations.

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Musa praised the commanding officer for his unit’s consistent support in raiding and arresting drug abusers, growers, and traffickers throughout the state.

The WHO says nearly 500 million people have been infected since March 2020, and new variants are still a threat two years after declaring COVID-19 a pandemic.

Two years ago, WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.

Six weeks after the virus was declared a global health emergency, there were less than 100 cases and no deaths outside China.
Two years later, over six million died.

‘The pandemic is far from over – and it will not be over until it is over everywhere,’ WHO Director General Tedros Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.

Ghebreyesus reminded journalists in Geneva that many Asian and Pacific countries are currently experiencing epidemics of cases and deaths.

“The virus is evolving, and we are still having difficulty distributing vaccines, tests, and treatments,” he said.

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On Wednesday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres echoed the WHO chief’s assessment that it would be ‘a grave mistake’ to think the virus was gone.

Vaccine distribution remains “scandalously unequal,” Guterres said.

It is estimated that nearly three billion people are still waiting for their first shot.

According to the UN chief, this “failure” is due to policy and budget decisions that prioritize the health of wealthy nations over those in poverty

“This is a moral indictment. It also means more variants, lockdowns, sorrow, and sacrifice in every country. “Our world cannot afford a COVID-19 two-tier recovery”.

Despite other global crises, Guterres added, the world must reach the goal of vaccinating 70% of people by the end of the year.

“Science and solidarity have proven unbeatable. “We must recommit ourselves to ending this pandemic once and for all for all people and countries,” he said.

His concern was the ‘dramatic reduction’ of testing in several countries.

“We can’t see where the virus is, how it spreads, or how it evolves,” he warned.

A ‘recombinant strain’ has been detected in Europe, according to COVID-19 Technical Lead Maria Kerkhove.

In France, the Netherlands, and Denmark, it has been detected, but at low levels, she said, calling for more testing and sequencing globally.

Kerkhove said the recombinant was expected given Omicron and Delta’s high circulation.

“In some countries, such as Europe, the wave of Delta had already passed, so circulation was low when Omicron emerged,” she said.

Scientists have seen no change in COVID-19 severity with this strain, but studies are still ongoing.

“Unfortunately, recombinants are expected because viruses evolve over time. “We are seeing high levels of circulation; this virus is affecting animals and may return to humans,” she warned.

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Kerkhove urged countries to strengthen surveillance and sequencing systems rather than dismantling them to tackle new threats.

She also called for a layered approach to public health tools.

“The pandemic is far from over; we must focus on both saving lives and halting its spread. “We cannot allow such rapid virus spread,” she said.

Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, the Governor of Borno, arrived in Dikwa on Tuesday around 7:00 p.m. for humanitarian assistance.

The Governor was greeted by the Executive Chairman, Mohammed Alhaji Gumsama, as well as some key local government stakeholders.

Governor Zulum oversaw and became personally involved in the distribution of food and non-food items to 40,000 households in the community.

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Zulum was accompanied by Hon. Zakariya Mohammed, Member of House of Assembly for Dikwa State Constituency, Commissioners for Agriculture, Engr. Bukar Talba, Sugun Mai Male, and Poverty Alleviation, Nuhu Clark, as well as a number of humanitarian workers, officials, and APC chieftains.

In an interview, Governor Zulum stated that the community did not have full access to their farmlands last year, and that most of their products were destroyed, necessitating the government of Borno State’s intention to provide them with food and non-food items.

The Governor announced the opening of a Mega Islamic School in Dikwa and promised that agricultural input would be available before the rainy season.

Mr. Dave Umahi has been asked to resign as governor of Ebonyi State by the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), in accordance with a federal high court ruling by honourable justice Inyang Ekwo.

It is unfortunate that a man who has served as governor of a state for more than seven years is publicly criticizing a judge of a competent court of law, which is one of the three arms of government (legislature, judiciary, and executive). For the former governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, to use unprintable words to describe a federal high court judge, and indeed one of Nigeria’s finest jurists, given his prodigious intellectual output as an author of outstanding legal books, is the pinnacle of executive rascality.

Umahi’s disrespectful attitude demonstrates the truth of what we previously stated: he, Umahi, lacks the temperament to be Nigeria’s president. If Mr. Umahi is elected President by mistake or accident, he will pocket the judiciary and install his puppets as judges to do his bidding.

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To say the least, his)Dave Umahi’s) unguarded utterances and calculated but unwarranted diatribe directed at Nigeria’s judiciary is disappointing. Even worse, INEC has yet to comply with and enforce the court’s decision. Why is INEC breaking the law as well? Why is a man whose authority as governor of Ebonyi State has been legally revoked still parading around as governor, and why are law enforcement agencies aiding and abetting illegality?

INEC, as a constitutionally created body, is bound by the decision of the competent court of law, as stated in section 6 of the 1999 constitution: “6. (1) The Federation’s judicial powers shall be vested in the courts to which this section relates, being courts established for the Federation.”

(2) The judicial powers of a State shall be vested in the courts referred to in this section, which are courts established for a State, subject to the provisions of this Constitution.

(3) The courts established by this Constitution for the Federation and for the States, as specified in subsections (5) (a) to (1) of this section, shall be the only superior courts of record in Nigeria, and each court shall have all the powers of a superior court of record, unless otherwise prescribed by the National Assembly or by the House of Assembly of a State.

(4) Nothing in this section’s preceding provisions shall be construed as prohibiting:-

(a) the National Assembly or any House of Assembly from establishing courts with subordinate jurisdiction to that of a High Court, other than those referred to in this section;

(b) the National Assembly or any House of Assembly that does not require it from abolishing any court that it has the authority to create or that it has established.

(5) This section is about:

a) the Nigerian Supreme Court;

a) the Court of Appeal; b) the Federal High Court; c) the Federal Court of Appeal; d) the Federal Court of Appeal; e) the Federal

d) the Federal Capital Territory’s High Court in Abuja;

e) a State’s High Court.”

The sad reality is that if Dave Umahi had been in the PDP and had lost his position to the APC, INEC would have followed the federal high court’s judgment because there is currently no superior ruling suspending the enforcement of that judgment.

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So, pending the outcome of the appeal filed by the former, Mr Dave Umahi, challenging the federal high court ruling, INEC should issue the certificate of return to the PDP nominees as directed by the court of law.

Remember that on Tuesday, a Federal High Court in Abuja fired Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State and his Deputy, Dr Eric Kelechi Igwe, for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party to the All Progressive Congress.

Justice Inyang Ekwo ruled that the total of 393,042 votes Umahi received in the Ebonyi State governorship election on March 9, 2019, belonged to the PDP and thus could not be legally transferred to the APC.
Both Umahi and Igwe’s defections to the APC, the court noted, threw out not only the PDP, but also the votes that belonged to the party.
Umahi, on the other hand, claimed that the judgment that removed him and his deputy on Tuesday was bought.

This was stated by Umahi at a press conference held in Abakaliki on Tuesday.
“I am still the Governor of Ebonyi State, and there is no tension at all,” he stated. To begin with, there is no provision in the Constitution for a saboteur to depose a governor. A governor can leave office in one of three ways: death, resignation, or impeachment. There is no other provision in the Constitution that allows a saboteur to turn it inside out.

“We’ve heard rumors that he was determined to rule against all known laws and the constitution, first to embarrass the APC and then to embarrass the federal government,” says the source.

A Premium Motor Spirit-laden tanker exploded at a Mobil Filling Station on 71 Agege Motor Road, Alakara, Mushin, Lagos, on Wednesday.

The fire, which started around 1 p.m. when the tanker was discharging its contents at the gas station, destroyed a three-story residential building.

However, the fuel station was destroyed, and the fire spread to a residential building near the Alakara Police Station in Mushin, Lagos.

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Ibrahim Farinloye, the Lagos Territorial Office Coordinator for the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), confirmed that no one was killed or injured.

“The fire has been successfully contained.” “Efforts are still underway to save the three-story structure from being completely consumed,” he explained.

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