Today’s Headlines: Tinubu Departs Lagos For Abuja, Akpabio Mourns Death Of Salvation Army’s Members
Tinubu departs Lagos for Abuja
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President Bola Tinubu on Sunday left Lagos where he has been on Sallah holidays for Abuja.
Before departing the presidential wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Tinubu in the company of Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu took the salute Nigeria Army parade.
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During his five days stay in Lagos, the president paid a courtesy visit to the paramount rulers of Ijebu, Egba, and Eko.
He also played host to the President of Guinea Bissau and Chairman, Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, Umaro Sissoco Embalo in his Lagos residence on Saturday.
Akpabio Mourns Death Of Salvation Army’s Members
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President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has commiserated the leadership and members of The Salvation Army, over the death of their officers and members in a fatal accident along the Lagos-Benin expressway, describing it as shocking and tragic.
Akpabio’s reaction was contained in a statement from the Media Unit of his office and made available to journalists in Abuja on Sunday.
According to the statement, “the President of the 10th Senate, Godswill Akpabio, received with great shock, the news of the death of members of this great commission in a fatal road accident around O Bridge, near Benin-City, which claimed the lives of 12 officers of the church and a baby while returning from a missionary assignment in Lagos State.
“I commiserate Commissioner Daniel Kasuso, the Territorial Commander. I pray for the repose of the souls of the departed faithfuls. I pray that God grants those they left behind, the fortitude to bear this great loss.”
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Senator Demands Ex-Customs Boss’ Arrest
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The senator representing Osun East in the 10th National Assembly, Francis Fadahunsi, has said the former Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ibrahim Ali (retd.), should be arrested by anti-graft and security agents.
Fadahunsi, a retired deputy comptroller general of customs, told Sunday PUNCH in an interview that the appointment of a thoroughbred professional as the new Comptroller-General would help the service.
President Bola Tinubu recently appointed Bashir Adeniyi as the acting Comptroller-General of Customs.
He added, “By the time the rots in the Customs service are uncovered, people would know how much damage is done. If not that Nigeria’s economy is resilient, it ought to have collapsed.” He faulted the process of auctioning vehicles, adding that some of the owners of the seized vehicles did not recover from the shock.
Fadahunsi noted that impounded rice were said to be donated for humanitarian purpose, which he said was being funded in the budget of the humanitarian affairs, disaster management and social development ministry.
Atiku’s Hope Of Becoming President Still Bright–Sowunmi
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A former Spokesman of the Atiku Campaign Organisation and gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2023 general elections in Ogun State, Otunba Segun Sowunmi, has held that the hope of his party’s presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, of becoming president is still bright.
He said that the issue of who won the last presidential poll is yet to be over until the Supreme Court gives its final verdict on the matter.
Sowunmi stated this at a virtual interactive session with the members of the League of Yoruba Media Practitioners (LYMP), a group of media professionals, who ply their trade in the Yoruba indigenous language.
According to the former spokesman of the Abubakar Atiku 2019 Presidential Campaign, PDP presidential candidate, Atiku has a overwhelming evidence to back up his petition before the Presidential Election Petition Court (PREPEC) and his chances of winning is bright.
When asked to assess the government of President Bola Tinubu and whether a government of national unity is desirable, Sowunmi said: “The eight million votes garnered by Tinubu during the last election is not enough for him to succeed as a president, he needs to avoid the mistakes of his predecessor and bring everyone together, irrespective of their ethnic, religion or political background.
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