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Buhari Reacts As AfDB President Adesina Gets Re-elected
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed happiness over the re-election of Dr Akinwumi Adesina as the President of African Development Bank (AfDB).

Adesina, a former Minister of Agriculture was re-elected on Thursday during an extraordinary meeting of bank holding in Cote d’Ivoire.

He emerged unopposed despite United States opposition to his reelection.

Adesina was first elected as AfDB President in 2015.

Reacting in a statement released to newsmen by his Media Adviser, Femi Adesina, Buhari said Adesina deserves it.

Buhari’s aide disclosed that the president received news of the victory came during the Council of State meeting, which was attended by former Heads of State, Presidents of the Senate, state governors, some ministers, and senior government officials.

The statement read, “As Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, announced the good news, President Buhari led a round of applause, and declared: ‘He deserves it.’

“The President extends appreciation to the African Union for its endorsement of the AfDB President much earlier, and to shareholders of the bank who worked tirelessly to ensure the return of the visionary leader.

“President Buhari believes Dr Adesina’s versatility, experience at both national and international engagements, will be further deployed to energize the pan-African financial institution, urging him to remain focused and steadfast in pursuing the noble goals of making life better for Africans through various development plans, already captured as High 5s.

“The President rejoices with family, friends and professional colleagues of Dr Adesina over the re-election, while commending members of staff and Board of Governors of the AfDB for their consistent support for the former Nigerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and his management team.

“While pledging full support of his government to ensure a successful tenure for the AfDB leadership, President Buhari prays that the Almighty God will continue to strengthen Dr Adesina and his team for greater good to the continent.”

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Could Pitso Mosimane Make A Local Football Comeback?
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Speaking to the South African Football Journalists Association (SAFJA) on Monday, Mosimane said returning to local football wouldn’t be up to him as it would also depend on the interests of his team.
 
He added that he would consider that decision if his colleagues gave a thumbs up to a local project.


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ARMY FOILED ATTEMPTED JAILED BREAK BY HOODLUMS IN WARRI
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Warri South Local Government area of Delta state, yesterday, was averted by a team of soldiers deployed to the scene.

Scores of the hoodlums brandishing all sorts of sophisticated weapons were reported to have marched to the Correctional facility at about the mid day and over powered the prison internal security and wardens who had been on guard at the facility.

Acting swiftly on the distress call from the prison controller, the Commander Sector 1, Operation ‘Delta Safe’, Col, Sanni Amed, immediately led a team of his men to the arena on a rescue mission.

The timely arrival of the soldiers to the scene was said to have averted another national embarrassment of yet another prison break barely four days to the Benin jail break by the same hoodlums.

In the course of dispersing the invaders there was sporadic gunshooting by the soldiers to wade off the hoodlums who despite the series of warning shots were still determined to have access to the facility to set the inmates free.

But on sensing that the troop were out on a serious mission, the invaders had to immediately beat a retreat and ran for their dear lives to enable the soldiers have total control of the prisons facility.

Further investigations revealed that all the 107 inmates have been contained in their cages within the facility as at the time of filing the report while normalcy had returned to the Okere area of the city.

One of the three (3) hoodlums who were reported to have sustainsed bullet injuries during the melee was reported to have died on the spot while the remaining two were being attended to in a nearby hospital.

Meanwhile, residents of Okere area had commended the soldiers under the Sector 1 Command, led by Col. Sanni Amed, for their professionalism in bringing the situation under control and thereby restoring sanity to the area.

Also yesterday a Petroleum tanker that was reported to have crushed one of the #EndSARS protesters to death at the Effurun Roundabout in Uvwie Local Government Area, was razed by scores of irate protesters at the scene of the accident.

At the DSC Roundabouts close to Ebrumede police station, the protesters were seen to have blocked the expressway burning tyres at strategic points along the high ways.

Meanwhile, the Delta state Governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, had imposed a 48hours curfew on the state starting from 6pm today, Thursday (October 22, 2020) as part of the measure to reduce further breakdown of law and order in the state.

 

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Police Arrest Man Who Started Fake News That Led To #EndSARS Protests, Reveals Source
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Mohammed Adamu, the Inspector-General of Police has disclosed that an unsubstantial fake news which sprung up from Ughelli community of Delta state, sparked up the #EndSARS protest in the nation.
Adamu disclosed this in an emergency security meeting with Governors of the 19 Northern states and some first-class Emirs in the region on Monday November 2.

According to Adamu, the Ughelli incident occurred after operatives of Operation Delta Safe; a state government sponsored joint security outfit comprising of the military, police and other security agencies, while on routine patrol around Ughelli Township accosted a Lexus SUV.

He said the occupants of the SUV dangerously engaged the reverse gear in an attempt to escape and evade the joint security team’s scrutiny in the area which has witnessed a series of kidnapping.

Adamu said one of the suspects, Joshua Ambrose jumped out of the moving patrol vehicle and sustained bruises on his head and body.

Daily Trust reported that the IGP who said the security agents in Ughelli in the video posted online did not in any way involve SARS operatives, maintained that the injured suspect was neither shot nor dead as portrayed in the false social media news by Malcolm Nicholas. He further revealed that the suspect responsible for the video has been arrested and arraigned before a court.

He Said;

“One of the suspects, Joshua Ambrose jumped out of the moving patrol vehicle and sustained bruises on his head and body.

“The patrol team coming behind subsequently intercepted the escaping vehicle and arrested the two male occupants.

“The patrol team stopped to attend to the situation and they were mobbed and had to tactically retreat to prevent possible violence.

“While this was going on, one Malcolm Nicholas who was at the scene recorded the incident and uploaded it on social media with a false tag that SARS operatives had just shot someone dead at Ughelli, Delta state.

“The false news soon went viral and inflamed national passion, which eventually formed the rallying point for the protest. The said Nicholas has been arrested charged to court under the law.”
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