Senate insists on recruiting 10,000 Nigerians into Civil Defence

By Edwin Akwueh, Abuja
Nigerian Senate
The Nigerian Senate has insisted that the proposed recruitment of 10,000 Nigerians into the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) would go on despite limited funds available for the paramilitary outfit.
Authorities of the NSCDC had complained that the 2020 budgetary provision for the corps can only accommodate 5,000 new employees as against the 10,000 earlier proposed by the government.

I'M LEAVING MY MARRIAGE BECAUSE MY HUSBAND RAPES ME ― ACTRESS BOSE OLADIMEJI

Nollywood actress Bose Oladimeji has revealed that she is leaving her husband because he beats and rapes her every time he comes home drunk.

During a recent interview with Vanguard, she revealed that after two years, she has decided to leave her husband who she claims beats and rapes her. She said the brutal violence and domestic abuse has become life-threatening and she has had enough.

Food Beverage Union Pickets Deli Food

The National Union Of Food, Beverages and Tobacco Employees has picketed the premises of Deli foods company, over attempt to disengage workers without paying them their benefits.

According to the union, the company is about to shut down and stop operations in Nigeria, but there is fear that workers might not be paid off.

Heavy rain has forced the postponement of the men and women's singles final of the 2019 Lagos Open Tennis Championship

Heavy rain has forced the postponement of the men and women's singles final of the 2019 Lagos Open Tennis Championship 
French player of Nigerian origin, Calvin Hemery,  was scheduled to take on Aldin Sektic of Bosnia in the men's singles

And Riya Bhatia of India is to play Nastja Kholar of Slovenia

The two final matches will now come up on Monday at the Lagos Lawn Tennis Club in Onikan

I WILL NOT ASSOCIATE WITH ANY IGBO GROUP THAT INSULTS BUHARI – UMAHI

Ebonyi State Governor David Umahi has said that he would not have anything to do with any Igbo group that castigate or insult President Muhammadu Buhari or any governor in the country.
Umahi made the statement on Friday when the members of the Igbo Leaders of Thought ( ILT)led by Professor Ben Nwabueze, paid him a courtesy call at the Government House in Abakaliki.

Solidarity with the Anambra Family

By C. Don Adinuba
Anambra State has become in the last four years the most peaceful and united state in Nigeria. The level of social harmony is unrivalled. Not even party differences matter to the people and government of Anambra State any more. For instance, when former Vice President Alex Ekwueme was buried in January, 2018, the weeklong funeral rites were led by Governor Willie Obiano. This was in spite of the fact that while Governor Obiano belongs to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Dr Ekwueme was a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In fact, Dr Ekwueme’s first child, Mrs Chidi Onyemelukwe, was the PDP deputy governorship candidate in the November 17, 2017, gubernatorial election which Chief Obiano won overwhelmingly in each of the 21 local government areas in the state. Though the election was held only two days to Dr Ekwueme’s passage, Governor Obiano displayed no bitterness towards the former vice

Update on Kano Escaped Lion Saga

Efforts to capture the missing Kano Zoo Lion has been unsuccessful more than 24 hours since it escaped its enclosure. Authorities had since suspended the search for the animal as night sets in.

TINUBU HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN AWOLOWO, MKO ABIOLA – OGUNLEWE

Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe, a former Minister of Works on Saturday said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the most prominent politician in the South-West who can lead Nigeria well if elected President.
Speaking in a chat with Daily Independent, Ogunlewe said Tinubu has achieved more than Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Basorun MKO Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the annulled June 12 1993 presidential election.

POLICE PROMOTES FOUR AIGS, TWO CPS TO DIGS, LAGOS CP, OTHERS TO AIGS

Police Service Commission (PSC) on Friday promoted four Assistant Inspectors-General (AIG) of Police and two Commissioners of Police (CPs), to the rank of Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) after an emergency Plenary Session.

Dependable source at the meeting who disclosed this to Saturday Independent said, the meeting was chaired by PSC chairman, retired Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Alhaji Musiliu Smith, which started at about 11.30am at the Federal Secretariat Abuja.

TINUBU’LL MAKE A GOOD MODERN NIGERIAN PRESIDENT – BABACHIR LAWAL

A former Secretary to the Government of the Federation who was sacked from office, Babachir Lawal, has said Bola Tinubu, a national leader of the All Progressives Congress is in good standing to become the next president of Nigeria.

He said Tinubu possesses the qualities of a good modern President to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023.

Babachir, who stated this in Yola, Adamawa State, in an interview with some select journalists, also supported power rotation to the South.