Today's Headlines: S’West doomed if they don’t support Tinubu, Diri warns troublemakers in Nembe

S’West doomed if they don’t support Tinubu – Ex PDP Chair

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A former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Lagos State, Moshood Adegoke Salvador has advised the South Western region of the country to give their maximum support to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He said the region would be doomed for life if they fail to give the President the needed support.

Salvador who was a member of the 2014 National Conference made this known in Lagos during an interactive session he had with a group of media professionals known as the League of Yoruba Media Practitioners (LYMP), in Lagos. He said all stakeholders in the region should set aside their political parties affiliation and support Tinubu for the progress of the region and Nigeria. Salvador said currently he has quit partisan politics and all what he cares for now is progress of South-West and Nigeria.

The former politician said emergence of Tinubu as president from South-West region could not be compared with how ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo emerged during his reign. He said Obasanjo was a product of the military, imposed on Nigeria and South-West by the power brokers and northerners.

According to him, this is the best opportunity the South West have had so far in the Nigeria project, since independence, so the Yorubas should rally round their own to give him the needed support.

Bayelsa: Diri warns troublemakers in Nembe kingdom

Source: Punch paper

The Governor of Bayelsa State, Douye Diri, has warned those fomenting trouble and beating the drums of war in Opu-Nembe in Nembe Local Government Area of the state to desist forthwith or face the wrath of the law.

Speaking in Government House, Yenagoa, when members of the Nembe Se Congress paid him a courtesy visit on Friday, Diri stated that government will not fold its arms and watch a few individuals disturb the peace of the Nembe kingdom, particularly in the Bassambiri community.

The governor in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Daniel Alabrah, on Saturday, expressed displeasure over the actions of a few people fomenting trouble yet playing the victim.

He stated that the government would take appropriate action against anyone found wanting, irrespective of their status.

JUST IN: One dies as truck, car collide in Lagos

A body has been identified to be dead in an accident in Lagos on Saturday. The accident happened on Odo Iya Alaro before New Garage inward Ojota between a Ford jeep and a truck. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority disclosed this in a post posted on its official Twitter handle.

“An accident on Odo Iya Alaro before New Garage inward Ojota between a Ford jeep and a truck, a dead body is involved while Police Officers from Ogudu Police station are on the ground,” the agency tweeted.

While advising motorists to drive with caution on approach, it added that the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit has been contacted for the evacuation of the lifeless body.

NDLEA to investigate two-year-old’s death in Delta

Source: Punch paper

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has said it is investigating a shooting incident involving its officers during the raid on a drug joint in the Okpanam area of Asaba, Delta state.

Stray bullets from the operatives on Thursday killed a two-year-old child and wounded his sibling.

The victims had just returned from school to their mother’s shop when they were hit by stray bullets.

Reacting in a statement on Saturday, the agency spokesperson said the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brigadier General Buba Marwa (retd) had set up a panel to investigate the matter.

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