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By Femi Alabi The Chief of Civil Military Affairs, Nigerian Army, Nosakhare Ugboh, has cautioned soldiers with the intent to victimise civilians should shed the idea, because doing so would land them in trouble. Ugboh said on Tuesday during a workshop on human rights organised for soldiers of 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi, that the world has evolved and it was no longer acceptable for “soldiers in uniforms to do and undo”. The army chief said that the lecture was meant to enlighten soldiers to understand their place and conduct themselves professionally in the larger society. “For some of…
By Femi Alabi The Nigerian Navy has intercepted a vessel laden with 30,000 litres of crude oil suspected to have been stolen from Nigeria. This was just as it sealed a tank farm in Calabar suspected to be storing illegally refined diesel. Commodore Rotimi Oderemi, Commander, Nigeria Navy Ship Victory, made this known at a news conference he addressed in Calabar on Tuesday. Oderemi stated that a joint operation by the Nigerian and Cameroonian Navies led to the interception of a vessel laden with 30,000 litres of crude oil suspected to have been stolen from Nigeria. He told newsmen…
By Femi Alabi In a bid to forestall any security breach at its facilities in Kaduna, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has solicited military support. NEMA North West Zonal Coordinator, Imam Garki, stated this during a visit to the Commanding Officer of the 2 Battalion Nigerian Army, on Tuesday in Kaduna. He said that the visit was to strengthen security at various warehouses, following the recent incident where hoodlums attacked government facilities to cart away food items and other valuables. “We are here to solicit for military support to have a standby security personnel position to safeguard the…
By Femi Alabi Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai, Waidi Shuaibu has said that terrorists operating in the North East have been so broken down to the level that they avoid confrontation with forces in the field. Shuaibu made this known at the opening of an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) awareness and detection training for the Civilian Joint Task Force in Maiduguri. “In view of this, the need for them to resort to IEDs cannot be over-emphasised “This training is tailored towards equipping participants with requisite skills and knowledge required to search, detect, identify…
By Femi Alabi Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, North East Operation Hadin Kai, Waidi Shuaibu has said that terrorists operating in the North East have been so broken down to the level that they avoid confrontation with forces in the field. Shuaibu made this known at the opening of an Improvised Explosive Device(IED) awareness and detection training for the Civilian Joint Task Force in Maiduguri. “In view of this, the need for them to resort to IEDs cannot be over-emphasised “This training is tailored towards equipping participants with requisite skills and knowledge required to search, detect, identify…
By Femi Alabi Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world’s richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos’ net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief’s $198 billion. Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla’s share price has dropped 25 percent in recent months. Adding to Musk’s woes, a court in January approved the annulment of his enormous Tesla compensation agreement, worth $55.8 billion and originally struck in 2018. Bezos, who…
By Femi Alabi Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world’s richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bezos’ net worth stands at $200 billion, according to the tracker, surpassing the Tesla chief’s $198 billion. Musk, who also heads X (formerly Twitter) and SpaceX, has seen his riches fall by more than $30 billion as Tesla’s share price has dropped 25 percent in recent months. Adding to Musk’s woes, a court in January approved the annulment of his enormous Tesla compensation agreement, worth $55.8 billion and originally struck in 2018.…
By Joan Nwagwu Abuja, March 4, 2024 (NAN) The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has called on President Bola Tinubu to direct prompt payment of members’ four months salaries currently being withheld. Mr Hassan Makolo, its National President, made the call during an emergency meeting of NASU branch chairmen and Inter-University Centres on Monday in Abuja. Makolo said that the call was imperative to ensure industrial harmony in the sector. He recalled that Tinubu had given a directive that the withheld salaries of the unions that embarked on strike during the last regime should be…
Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the agency’s visits over the weekend to the Al-Awda and Kamal Adwan hospitals were the first since early October. In a post on social media, he spoke of “grim findings”. A lack of food resulted in the deaths of 10 children and “severe levels of malnutrition”, while hospital buildings have been destroyed, he wrote. The Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza reported on Sunday that at least 15 children had died from malnutrition and dehydration at the Kamal Adwan hospital. A sixteenth…
By Femi Alabi Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has stated that dialogue and not any form of violence would help resolve various conflicts in Africa. Obasanjo stated this on Monday in Abeokuta at a Youth leadership symposium with the theme “Opportunities for Peace: Roles of The Youths in Conflict Prevention in Africa” . He said that efforts to inculcate culture of peace and security in the youth must be intensified to spur them to be at the vanguard of promoting peace rather than being used to perpetrate violence in the continent. The programme was put together by Centre for Human…