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From Aviashima Toom, Abuja The All Progressives Congress, APC, Youth Progressive Forum FCT, on Monday, faulted an alleged plot to impose a candidate for the  AMAC/BWARI Federal constituency seat in Abuja The APC Youths under the leadership of Zaka Nehemiah as chairman and Tukura Daniel, who made this allegation at the National Secretariat of the party in Abuja,  further alleged that the leadership of the party has impose one Abuzari Suleiman on the Constituents. They claimed that Abuzari who is alleglly the FCT minister's relation presently hold an appointment under the Minister and has refused to resign from the position despite wanting to contest for the Assembly seat. Speaking with newsmen at the APC National Secretariat, they said: “we are writing to communicate our strong opposition to the attempted imposition Abuzari Suleiman Ribadu on the loyal members of our party in Bwari and AMAC. The said person connive with some saboteur o destroy our great party

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for extending the deadline for the conduct of primary elections and submission of the list of nominated candidates for the 2023 general elections, from 4th to 9th of June 2022.  Chairman of the foremost election monitoring group, Comrade Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, in a statement on Friday, lamented the extension, noting that the group received the news with great worries and concerns.  He said that, at a time when Nigerians are beginning to have confidence in the electoral umpire some powerful forces are trying to undermine and pressurise it to doing their biddings.  Comrade Rafsanjani stated that: “A lot of political parties have made efforts in conducting their primaries and if the ruling party is still uncertain about the day to conduct its presidential primary elections that shouldn’t be the basis for the extension.” The Group also condemned the vo

  By Our Reporter Victim Support Fund (VSF) on Friday distributed relief materials to victims of conflicts and vulnerable people in Konshisha and Oju Local Government Areas (LGAs) of Benue. The items distributed were beans, rice, garri, sanitary pad, soaps, palm and vegetable oil among others. The State Project Coordinator, Mndepawe Kwaghe said that VSF was intervening in seven LGAs of the state. Kwaghe listed the local governments to include Konshisha, Oju, Ado, Gwer West, Kwande, Logo and Guma, stressing that the intervention would last for six months. "Today we are distributing materials to them for the months of April and May and we are giving them two of each of the items. One for April and the other for May," Kwaghe said. She disclosed that they were intervening in the state as a result of the cry of the governor of the state that the number IDPs keep increasing and donor agencies should wade in to cushion the hardship faced by the di

From Aviashima Toom, Abuja The National Youth Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dayo Israel, has outlined proposed strategic plans for all youth inclusiveness during and after the 2023 general elections. The national Youth Leader had earlier constituted the 12 man high level working committee announced that the team will provide support for APC youths before, during and after the 2023 general elections to enable them discharge their responsibility effectively. He added that the team will seek financial and moral support for youth candidates who are below 40 years old that will emerge with the party ticket post primaries to increase young people’s participation in elections. "And so the purpose of this gathering is for them to give an account to the young people of nigeria on the progress of that high level working group.To engage policymakers and lobby for positions directly from the power brokers in the state, including governors of some state

By Our Reporter The Nigerian Air Force School of Air  Intelligence (NAFSAINT), Nigerian Air Force Base, Makurdi on Tuesday graduated 67 personnel.  The Commandant of the school, Air Commodore Emmanuel Ukpong, disclosed this during the combined graduation ceremony of the Advanced Intelligence Course 19/2022, Intermediate Intelligence Course 20/2022 and the Basic Intelligence Course 29/2022 held in Makurdi. Ukpong disclosed that 74 personnel were admitted for the sundry programmes but only 67 ended up graduating. "A student was withdrawn from the course due to health issues while six others were withdrawn for poor academic performance during the conduct of the courses. "Notwithstanding, I am glad to inform you that the course has come to a successful end today with 67 students graduating," Ukpong said. He pointed out that the Advanced Intelligence Course was aimed at producing intelligence operatives meant to function as Desk  Sergeants in the units

....... says he is an imposter From Aviashima Toom, Abuja The Department of State Services has disowned one Adio Oluwole Bashir, who claims to be a former staff of the security agency who led the team that arrested the suspected killers of David Imoh, a sound engineer, who was killed in Lagos about two weeks ago. Bashir in an online publication had claimed further that the killers of the sound engineer, who were of Hausa origin, were exchanged with Christians. However, the DSS in their statement issued by its Spokesman, Dr. Peter Afunanya, on Monday, said Bashir is neither a serving nor a former staff of the DSS but a mere impostor out to smear the agency for personal gains. Afunanya further said in the statement that the DSS hereby dismisses a false online publication authored by one Adio Oluwole Bashir who purported to be a former staff of the Service. Bashir claimed to have led the team that arrested suspected killers of David Imoh, a sound engineer allegedly murdered on

By Aviashima Toom, Abuja The Crime Correspondents Association of Nigeria (CCAN) received with shock the news of the demise of Assistant Inspector General (AIG), Donal Awunah. A statement issues by the, Chairman, Crime Correspondents Association of Nigeria Hassan Zaggi and it's General Secretary Festus Fifen noted that before his demise in the early hours of Monday, May 23, 2022, Awuna was AIG in charge of Zone 16, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State The statement added that Awunah who was appointed Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO) by the then IGP, Ibrahim Idris, in 2016, was one of the exceptional and hardworking Spokesman the Nigeria Police Force ever produced. He worked closely and was very supportive to the Association when he was Force Public Relations Officer. The EXCO and the entire members of CCAN, therefore, condole with the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Usman Baba Alkali, the immediate family and indeed, Benue State, over the huge loss. While the pray for the repo