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Unknown gunmen attack a police station in Imo, killing four people

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According to reports, the gunmen also set fire to vehicles on the premises.

After a tense gunfight, an Inspector and three of the attackers were killed. Mike Abattam, a police spokesperson for the state police command, said the incident occurred at 11:35 p.m. on Thursday.

“At around 21:35 hours on August 5, armed bandits attacked and threw explosives and petrol bombs on top of the roof of the Orsu Police Station, causing the roof to collapse and a fire to spread throughout the station, affecting some of the vehicles parked in the parking lot. On the ground, the command’s tactical teams engaged the bandits in a gunfight.”

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“And the bandits were apprehended thanks to the police’s superior firepower. Three of the bandits were apprehended and their weapons, including a pump action gun and two locally made double barrel pistols, were recovered, while the others fled into the bush, bullet wounds. Unfortunately, one of the police officers was killed in the attack.”

“In the meantime, the command is using this medium to appeal to the good people of Imo State, particularly the Orsu community, to assist the police with credible information that will lead to the arrest of the escaped bandits, as well as to report anyone seen with or treating bullet wounds to the nearest police station. In addition, hospitals should ensure that anyone seeking treatment for bullet wounds is reported to them.”

Police recover N3 million and a car from a murder suspect, in Akwa Ibom

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The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has announced the recovery of nearly N3 million and a 4Matic Mercedes Benz car from Lorretta Anoh, who is suspected of killing a 36-year-old man, Chikoka Henry, in his home.

Henry was said to have been discovered dead in a pool of his own blood, possibly as a result of a head wound, while his black Mercedes-Benz 4Matic car, registration number EKY 694 GP, was missing.

According to the police, Henry’s body was discovered after his brother, Collins Okpara, reported finding the deceased dead in his home in Uyo after unsuccessful attempts to contact him.

Lorretta Anoh, the murder suspect, was the last person to visit the deceased on August 3rd, 2021, according to police investigations.

According to a press release issued by the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon, on Friday in Uyo, investigations into the case resulted in the recovery of N2, 943, 250 from the murder suspect, who has already confessed to stealing from the victim.

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When she was apprehended, the suspect was also on the verge of converting the stolen 4Matic Mercedes Benz car into her own property, according to Macdon.

“On 4/8/2021 at approximately 9:10 a.m., after receiving a complaint from one Collins Okpara ‘m’ of Afaha Road, Uyo that he attempted to contact his brother, one Chikoka Emeka Henry ‘m’, 36 years of age, via phone but received no response, he decided to pay a visit to the said Chikoka in his apartment at No. 2 Osongama Estate, Uyo.

“When he arrived, he discovered him dead in his pool of blood. He also informed the police that his black Mercedes Benz 4Matic car, registration number EKY 694 GP, had been removed from the parking lot.

“The Commissioner of Police, CP ANDREW AMIENGHEME, psc(+) fdc, was forced to order a prompt investigation as a result of the report.

Operatives from the ‘B’ Division in Ewet Housing acted quickly, removing the deceased’s body, which had a cut on his head according to preliminary examination, and delivering it to UUTH for autopsy.

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“Operations painstakingly pursued and apprehended the main suspect, Lorretta Anoh ‘f’, who was last seen entering the deceased’s apartment on March 8, 2021.

“An immediate search of the suspect yielded the sum of N2,943,250, which she admitted to stealing from the victim.

“At the time of arrest, the suspect was making arrangements to transfer ownership of the deceased’s 4Matic car to her personal property,” according to the press release.

The PPRO, who stated that the CP has ordered the case to be transferred to the State Criminal Investigation Department for a discreet investigation, warned the public to be vigilant and cautious of who they associate with.

Allow your husbands to suck your breasts, says the Chief Nurse to expectant mothers

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A Chief Nursing Sister, Roseline Oladimeji, has advised pregnant women to let their husbands suck their breasts.

This, according to the expert, will help them prepare for breastfeeding after delivery.

Oladimeji spoke at a Festac Town, Lagos, event commemorating the 2021 World Breastfeeding Week, which was organized by Amuwo Odofin Maternal and Child Centre.

“Let your husband suck your breasts while you’re pregnant. It will help the nipples to be out and make it easier for your baby to latch on, in addition to bonding,” she said.

Her advice to women, according to NAN, is to rub vaseline on their nipples before going to bed. Oladimeji claims that this softens them.

According to the Chief Nurse, proper breast preparation during pregnancy prevents lactation problems after delivery.

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Colostrum, the first form of milk produced after birth, contains nutrients that help boost the baby’s immunity, she explained.

Some foods, herbs, and medications, according to Oladimeji, can harm babies through breast milk.

She warned that taking palmwine to help with lactation could cause alcohol to enter the baby’s system while breastfeeding.

Mothers should also ignore advice from people who aren’t medical professionals, according to the expert.

Police and gunmen clashed in Imo at midnight, killing four people and torching vehicles

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Five soldiers shot dead at Imo state

Gunmen attacked the Police Divisional Headquarters in Orlu, Imo state, on Thursday night, killing a police inspector and three attackers.

Mike Abattam, the Imo Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the latest development on Friday morning, saying that officers on duty squared up to the attackers, killing three of them.

 

The rest, he said, escaped with gunshots.

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CNN employees were fired after they arrived at work without being vaccinated

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According to US media reports, three CNN employees were fired for failing to comply with the network’s coronavirus policy by arriving at work unvaccinated.

CNN President Jeff Zucker said in an internal memo emailed to employees on Thursday and obtained by several US media outlets that the company had become aware of three employees who came to work unvaccinated in the previous week. They were all “terminated.”

In snippets of the memo tweeted by CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy, he said, “Let me be clear — we have a zero-tolerance policy on this.”

The names, positions, and locations of the fired employees were not mentioned in his memo. CNN did not respond to a request for comment right away.

The network had been relying on an honor system in which workers were stabbed but not required to show proof. However, Zucker stated that this could change in the future.

According to the memo, inoculations are required for anyone reporting in the field, working with other employees, or entering the offices.

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The US federal government announced in May that it was legal for employers to require employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19 before physically entering the workplace.

Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have all stated that employees will be required to get vaccinated before returning to their US offices.

As the fast-spreading Delta variant fuels another surge of Covid-19 cases, they are among several major US employers who have recently revised their virus policies, vaccine mandates, or return-to-work dates.

CNN’s company-wide September 7 return-to-work date will likely be postponed until some time in October, according to Zucker’s memo to employees.

He estimates that about a third of the network’s American newsroom staff is currently using the offices on a volunteer basis.

Nigeria’s next president should be in his 60s, according to Babangida

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Nigeria's next president should be in his 60s

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Nigeria’s former military president, has suggested that the country’s next president should be in his 60s by 2023 due to the nature of the job.

On Friday morning, Babangida gave an exclusive interview to Arise Television.

Babangida, also known as IBB, claimed that one of the reasons Nigeria has failed to progress and realize the founding fathers’ dreams is that Nigerians have lost faith in their own country’s future.

Although Babangida did not name any individuals as ineligible for the presidency, he did suggest that Nigerians focus on individuals in their 60s as potential presidential candidates in 2023.

Babangida stated that the country is endowed with both human and natural resources, and suggested that a few people in their 60s had the potential to become president and effectively run the country.

Former President Goodluck Jonathan, who accused Nigerians of both creating and destroying their own country, identified bad leadership as a major cause of the country’s socioeconomic problems.

IBB described the presidential candidates he was thinking of as people in their sixties with contacts all over the country who had been traveling around the geopolitical zones promoting their acceptability and capacity.

“If you get a good leadership that links with the people and tries to talk with the people rather than talking over them, then we’ll be fine,” IBB said.

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“I’ve begun to imagine a good Nigerian leader. That is, someone who travels across the country and makes friends almost everywhere he goes and knows at least one person with whom he can communicate.

“That’s a person who knows a lot about economics and is also a good politician, so he should be able to communicate with Nigerians and other people. I’ve seen one, two, or three of these people in their sixties.”

When asked if the person could win the presidential election in 2023, the former military leader from Minna said, “I believe so if we can get him.”

“I do believe in the future of Nigeria, but Nigerians do not believe in the future of their country,” the former military president, who turns 80 on August 17, 2021, said in response to a question about whether he still believed in the country’s future. They both created and destroyed.”

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Reiterating his belief in Nigeria’s future and urging Nigerians to remain patriotic, Babangida, who claimed to be in good health as he approached his 80th birthday and expressed gratitude to God for sparing his life, advised Nigerians to vote for the person who has the ability to transform the country when the time comes.

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Sultan of Sokoto laments Nigeria’s insecurity and high cost of living

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Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sultan of Sokoto and President of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), has decried the country’s lingering insecurity threats and high cost of living, which have resulted in things not improving in every sector.

The Sultan made the remark during the 3rd Conference of the Da’awah Coordination Council of Nigeria (DCCN), which is an amalgamation of about 52 Da’awa groups in Gombe State, on Thursday.

The Sultan lamented the country’s high cost of living insecurity, saying that “action must be taken by political leaders and elite to address the issues.”

“We must tell ourselves the truth and stop deceiving ourselves into believing that things are improving. The reality is that things aren’t getting any better.

“As a result, the sooner we realize things aren’t getting better, the better, so we can sit down and figure out how to solve our problems.

“We must work hard to address insecurity, hunger, poverty, and all of the other problems that plague our great country.

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“We have problems, yes, we know we have problems, and as I previously stated, things are not normal and right in this country, but we can make things normal and right by Allah’s will, so we must work hard.

“People are suffering, and while we have a few people who have a lot and a lot of people who have nothing,” the revered monarch said, “we are not helping the poor.”

As a result, Abubakar advised the government to secure adequate food supplies and store them in order to sell them at a heavily discounted price to the general public.

“The country cannot experience peace, security, or development without food. And if we don’t develop, we’ll just be a bunch of people sitting around,” he added.

Stakeholders in the Niger PDP endorse Beji for Chairmanship

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Senator Zaynab Kure, the former Deputy Governor of Niger State, as well as Dr. Shem Nuhu Zagbayi and Mr. Umar Nasko, the PDP’s Governorship Candidate for the 2019 Election, have all endorsed Mr. Tanko Beji for a second term as the People’s Democratic Party’s Niger State Chairman (PDP).

The trio also asked all of their supporters to vote for Beji during the Saturday congress in various posts on their platforms yesterday.

They all agreed that Beji had put in a lot of effort for the party and deserved a second term as state chairman.

Previously, the party’s stakeholders from the three senatorial zones met in Bida last weekend and made similar decisions.

However, the camp of one of the Chairmanship Aspirants, Mr. Mukhtar Ahmed, was absent at the meeting in Bida, in addition to not attending the statekeholders meeting held at the party secretariat last week.

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The Ahmed camp has declared all plans for the congress to be illegal because the committee in charge of it, particularly its chairman Mr. Theophilus Dakkas Shan, the Zonal Secretary, Mr. Maurice Tsao, and the Zonal Treasurer, Mr. Emmanuel Ibrahim Ijah, were barred by the court from holding the special stakeholders and caucus meeting last week.

On behalf of the group, Abdulazeez Malami Abdullahi, Abdulmalik Garba, and Mohammed Idris Goro filed a lawsuit.

“With the restraining order, any action taken by the Shan committee is null and void because nothing can be put on nothing,” the group stated.

The court papers, a copy of which is in the possession of THISDAY, were filed on July 29, 2021, before Justice Binta Bawa, the Niger State High Court’s vacation judge.

In his interlocutory order, Justice Bawa restrained the defendants/respondents from holding the state caucus on July 29 or any other type of meeting in the name and capacity of the caretaker committee or whatever called or how called on behalf of the PDP Niger state chapter.”

The defendants/respondents were also barred from posing as a caretaker committee because their term had expired on May 21, 2021, and had not been renewed or extended by the PDP working committee.

Shan told reporters that his committee is not a “caretaker committee,” but rather a body “overseeing” the affairs of the PDP Niger State, and that the national working committee has given him the authority to hold the August 7 congress.

Because of two previous congresses that were botched, the PDP in the state has been in crisis for over a year.

As a result of the crisis, the party has split into two factions, one led by a former member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Mukhtar Ahmed, and the other by the state’s immediate past chairman, Mr. Tanko Beji.

The national leadership had attempted, but failed, to mediate a truce between the two warring factions. Even Senator Bukola Saraki’s peace and reconciliation committee, as described by Mr. Shan, was unable to reconcile feuding parties “struggling for the “beautiful bride” (PDP).

Ex-President Yar’Adua’s son allegedly crushes four people to death and is imprisoned in Yola

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Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, the son of late former President Umaru Yar’Adua, was remanded in prison yesterday by a Magistrate’s Court in Yola for allegedly killing four people in an auto accident in Yola, Adamawa State.

According to the Nigerian News Agency (NAN), Yar’Adua, a student at the American University of Nigeria in Yola, was charged in court on June 23, 2021, with causing death by dangerous driving.

According to the prosecutor’s First Information Report (FIR) presented in court by Inspector Zakka Musa, the accused ran over six people while driving along the Yola bye-pass in June.

The victims were all from Sabon Pegi, Yola South Local Government Area of the state, and four were killed and two were injured in the accident, according to the court.

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According to the FIR, those killed in the accident were Aisha Umar (30), Aisha Mamadu (32), Suleiman Abubakar (2), and Jummai Abubakar (30), while Rejoice Annu (28) and Hajara Aliyu (27) were injured.

The prosecuting officer told the court that the late Aisha Umar’s relatives, Suleiman Abubakar and Jummai Abubakar, had demanded N15 million in compensation from the defendant.

When the FIR was read to the defendant, as the prosecutor had requested, he denied committing the crime and described the allegation as false.

The prosecutor then requested that the case be adjourned so that he could duplicate the case file and send it to the Department of Public Prosecutions for legal advice.

The Magistrate, Jummai Ibrahim, granted the prosecution’s request and continued the case until August 19, 2021, with the ex-son president’s being remanded in prison custody until then.

Buhari regime has created a vacuum in Nigeria, according to Rochas Okorocha

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Ochas Okorocha, a senior member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, claims that Nigeria is in a state of flux.

Willful violence and disregard for human rights have decreased under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

Mr Okorocha, a senator representing Imo West, stated this at the Nigerian Diaspora Youth Ambassador (NDYA) one-day summit and award recognition program held in Abuja on Thursday.

“You are the very group of people we have been waiting for to correct our mistakes and build the Nigeria of our collective dreams,” the former Imo governor said to Nigerian youths.

“There is a void in Nigeria, and the country is waiting for young people to rewrite its history. If young people can come together and say, “We want to take the presidency no matter what,” they will do so because they have a better chance of succeeding when they work together.”

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Mr Okorocha urged the youths to stay focused and take action in the run-up to the election in 2023. The senator urged them not to wait for white-collar jobs as the unemployment rate continues to rise.

“If you want to succeed, you must work together like a lion to take down the elephant known as leadership. “You can achieve anything if you work together, just like the lion who finds strength in numbers,” Mr Okorocha said, preparing them for the presidency in 2023. “Never give up. If you keep working hard, you might be able to win the presidency in 2023.”

Similarly, Senate Chief Whip Orji Kalu, who was represented by his aide Obasi Igbokwe, stated that the national assembly shared the youths’ concerns.

Almustapha Abdulahi, the former president of the Nigerian National Youths Council, also spoke at the event, encouraging youths to be persistent, love one another, and reject things that would cause division among them.

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