FG denies postponing paramilitary recruitment, says exercise ongoing
The Federal Government has denied claims that the ongoing recruitment exercise by the Civil Defence, Correctional, Fire and Immigration Services Board, CDCFIB, has been postponed until after the 2027 general election, describing the circulating document as fake and unauthorised.
‘The gains of Buhari’s appt of a visually impaired person as special assistant’
The Executive Chairman of the Federal Nigerian Society for the Blind, FNSFB, Asiwaju Fola Osigbo, has commended President Muhamadu Buhari’s appointment of Dr.Samuel Inalegwu Ode Ankeli, a visually impaired person as his Senior Special Assistant on People Living with Disabilities.
No crack in our group –Avengers
THE Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, this morning, responded to a reported split of the group, saying it was untrue. The militant group in a retort at 8.21 am to Vanguard inquiry, said: “The NDA is too busy at the moment to be distracted by people like Jude Kekyll, he is not part of us and cannot be part of us. All our operatives are united and we are all together.”
PDP is gasping for breath —Obasanjo
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday denied attending the Peoples Democratic Party , PDP, event at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre, Abuja , saying it was an attempt to drag him back to the party he had left.
Looming floods: Thousands of Lagosians may be displaced – Femi Giwa
Recently, the Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) and the Nigeria Metrological Agency, NIMet, issued warnings that a number of states are likely to experience high flood this year. Weather forecast through the Seasonal Rainfall Predictions indicates that Lagos could be one of the areas prone to the looming floods. Following this prediction, Lagos and seven other states in the South West zone of the country got together to take proactive emergency preparedness response measures. In this interview, Head of Operations and Logistics, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, LASEMA, Mr. Femi Giwa, warns that up to 5,000 residents of the state may become homeless this year from floods. He opens up on strategies to be employed to tackle the looming disaster. Excerpts:
Audu Ogbeh @69: ‘I survived three attempts on my life’
“There were three attempts on my life and near abduction in 2005 at my residence and God, in his mercies, delivered me”.
