Today's Headlines:Sit-At-Home Handiwork Of Criminals-Obi;Tackle Corruption, Aragbaye Urges Tinubu
Sit-At-Home Handiwork Of Criminals_Obi
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The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) Peter Obi has described the insecurity in South East region as ‘criminal activity’.
According to him, the sit-at-home directives in the south-east remain the handiwork of a criminal enterprise.
In a statement posted on his official Twitter page on Thursday, Obi said the sit-at-home orders have been denied by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).
He, however, called on security agencies to take urgent steps to deal with the heightened insecurity and crime across the country.
Obi said: “The situation in the Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau state has raised a lot of anxiety because of the number of lives and properties lost with very little resistance from security operatives.
Also disturbing is the continued disruption of business and social activities in the SouthEast region over the Sit-at-Home directive purported to be coming from the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra, IPOB, when the body has publicly denied issuing such directive.
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Tackle Corruption, Funmi Aragbaye Urges Tinubu
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The current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Gospel Musicians of Nigeria, Evangelist Dr Funmi Aragbaye, has urged President Bola Tinubu to handle the issue of corruption in high places otherwise palliatives or whatever economic measures may not achieve the anticipated results.
Aragbaye said that the president should tackle the issue of corruption head-on without minding who would be adversely affected by whatever policy, adding that the problem should be tackled from the source.
The gospel musical legend spoke to the Punch on Monday, in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while felicitating President Bola Tinubu on his assumption of office as the 16th president of Nigeria, during an interview.
She said that President Tinubu should put measures in place to address the current inflation rate in the country, saying times are really hard and called on Tinubu to allow God to move through this administration.
The gospel music icon said there would be less crimes, agitations and social vices would disappear when people are happy.
Aragbaye advised Tinubu to consider local refining of the nation’s crude oil for home consumption, adding that the current administration should also resist the temptation to increase electricity tariff, as according to her, doing so would further worsen the current economic situation of the country.
Putin Has Lost Ukraine War – Biden
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The President of the United States Joe Biden says his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin has already lost the war he started against Ukraine on February 24, 2022
Putin ordered the Russian troops to invade Ukraine about 500 days ago, but the US president claimed they are short of weapons to continue the war
Biden said this on Thursday when visited the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)’s newest member, Finland, DW said.
Speaking alongside Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, in the country’s capital, Helsinki, he said that Putin has “already lost the war” in Ukraine, with Moscow running short of resources and in economic hardship.
“Putin’s already lost the war. There is no possibility of him winning the war in Ukraine,” Biden told a news conference in Helsinki.
He added that Ukraine “will join NATO” and Putin will eventually decide it is not in the interest of Russia to continue the war. “No one can join NATO while a war is going on,” Biden said.
Obi Decries Endless Bloodletting Across Nigeria
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The Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 Election, Peter Obi, has expressed sadness over what he described as the endless bloodletting and the killing of innocent Nigerians nationwide.
He appealed to the government to up their game and rejigg the security architecture and show greater concern for human life.
Obi said this in a tweet on Thursday. He explained that the rising insecurity in the country leading to mindless bloodlettings, particularly in the North Central and South East part of the country was becoming very worrisome.
He said, “The violent attacks in the North Central states of Benue and Plateau lately took a new twist with high records of kidnapping, arson, and loss of human lives.
Obi noted that the 1st Quarter Mass Atrocities Casualty Tracking Report shows that over 1230 Nigerians were killed 79 of them security operatives with over 600 abductions in the first quarter of this year alone.
He said, “With what has been happening in the North Central and Zamfara state lately, the figure as of today will be mind-boggling even far more than the deaths recorded in Russia/Ukraine ongoing carnage.
The Labour Party standard bearer described the situation as “unacceptable that hundreds of innocent lives will continue to be wasted in Nigeria needlessly through communal clashes, bandit and kidnapping activities.
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