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By Kingsley Omonobi Following calls on President Muhammadu Buhari to appoint the next Inspector General of Police from the South East which lost out in appointment of service chiefs, the Presidency said, yesterday, that appointment would not be based on ethnicity but ability to secure lives and property in the country. The IGP, Mohammed Adamu’s
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Mohammadu Buhari has appointed the Academy Adjutant of the Nigeria Defence Academy (NDA), Lt-Col Y.M. Dodo, as his new Aide-De-Camp (ADC). The Presidency through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, confirmed the development on Saturday. Reports indicate that Dodo will take over from
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru As the security situation in the country worsens, the National Association of Seadogs, NAS, has accused the Federal Government of pampering cattle herders thereby emboldening the criminal elements among them to unleash violence on innocent citizens. NAS, also known as Pyrates Confraternity has also alleged that the failure to interdict the criminal elements,
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THE Presidency on Friday alleged that people stoking ethnic and religious unrest in the country are motivated by quest for power and filthy lucre.
Read More Alleges plot to smear Buhari By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Presidency on Friday alleged that people stoking ethnic and religious unrest in the country are motivated by quest for power and filthy lucre. The Presidency also raised the alarm over the alleged plan to launch a smear campaign against President Muhammadu Buhari in the media. READ
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By Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Presidency last night said that it was currently analyzing the sources of data used by Transparency International in arriving at Corruption Perceptions Index in Nigeria. A statement issued by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu said that the report was not an accurate
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The Oodua People’s Congress, OPC, on Sunday, warned the Presidency and the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, against playing politics and ethnicity with the worrisome state of security in the South-West.
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By Nwafor Sunday Following the seven days ultimatum given to herdsmen to ‘vacate the forests’ of Ondo state, by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, and of course a riposte from the Presidency faulting his order, a former Aviation Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, Wednesday, condemned Gabar Shehu’s intervention, noting that quit notice cannot be given to law-abiding citizens
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…Akeredolu can’t tell herders to leave Ondo — Presidency …My ultimatum stands — Ondo gov By Dayo Johnson, Dapo Akinrefon & Johnbosco Agbakwuru THE Presidency and Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State, yesterday, headed for a showdown over the ultimatum given by the latter to Fulani herders to vacate the forest reserves in the state.
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THE Presidency last night cautioned the Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu over the seven-day ultimatum to the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, to vacate the forest reserves over security concerns.
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