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1) The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has guaranteed that 85% of its officers will be deployed to provide security across the country for the holiday celebration.
The Commandant General, Ahmed Audi, confirmed that the Corps and other security agencies were prepared to avert any form of violence during the season in a statement signed by the corps spokesperson, Olusola Odumosu, on Friday.
2) Christopher Elehu, also known as Wasco, was the candidate for the Onuimo Local Government Area in the House of Assembly was brutally murdered. The Imo State Police Command has launched a manhunt for his killers.
The command’s spokesperson, Micheal Abattam, confirmed the killing to our correspondent and stated that a police investigation into the LP candidate’s murder had been launched in an effort to identify and apprehend those responsible.
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3) Scholarships have been given to thirty secondary school students from six different Ogun State schools.
The scholarships were presented at the recently concluded Ilaro-Oronna Festival in Ogun state by the scholarship recipient, Adekunle Adebiyi, a former senior executive at MTN and current Chief Commercial Officer at Itex Integrated Services Ltd.
4) Usman Baba, the Inspector General of Police, has claimed that recent assaults on INEC offices, officers across the nation are the result of collusion between politicians and other well-known individuals.
The IG made this claim on Friday when he testified before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee looking into attacks on INEC assets nationwide. The IG was represented by the Deputy Inspector-General, Department of Operations, Dandaura Mustapha.
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5) Ifeanyi Okowa, governor of Delta State and vice presidential candidate for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has been given the task of leading a new effort at reconciliation with the G-5 governors, just two months before the general elections of 2023.
6) Bamise Ayanwola, a murdered BRT passenger, was laid to rest at the Atan Cemetery in Yaba, Lagos, on Friday, and it was a moving scene. After boarding a BRT bus at the Chevron area of Lekki to Oshodi on February 26, 2022, the 22-year-old woman was discovered dead on Carter Bridge by the community of Ogogoro in Lagos Island on March 7, 2022.
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7) The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has forwarded a warning to its current corps members urging them not to engage in any electoral fraud during the upcoming general elections. Any corps member found wanting will face legal action, according to NYSC Acting Director-General Mrs. Christy Uba, who issued the warning yesterday in Abuja.
8) According to Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the commission will recover from attacks on its facilities and hold the elections in 2023. Yakubu stated yesterday in Abuja that the commission would move some of the attacked offices out of risky areas.
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9) President Muhammadu Buhari has received a heartfelt thank you from Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo sociocultural organisation, for completing the Second Niger Bridge as promised. Ohanaeze was especially grateful for Buhari’s commitment to finishing the project that the previous administration had started.
10) In the Abarikpo community of the Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State, a gun battle claimed the lives of three Icelander members of a cult, including a gang leader. According to information gathered, members of the group broke into the neighbourhood at around two in the morning on Thursday in search of their unit leader, Bright Ejike, also known as “Borokiri,” who they claimed had converted the group’s weapons and ammunition for use by personnel.
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