Gunmen kill RCCG Pastor, abduct seven church members during vigil in Ogun
Sources: Vanguard newspapers
Unknown gunmen on Saturday stormed a branch of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
In Abule-Ori in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State, killing the Pastor and abducting seven worshippers.
The Commander of the Ogun State government owned security outfit, So-Safe Corps, Soji Ganzallo, who confirmed the incident, said his officers rescued the seven church members and killed one of the kidnappers during the operation.
Director of Information and Public Relations of So-Safe, Moruf Yusuf, in a statement he made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, said the incident occurred at about 12am on Saturday, July 1.
Ganzallo said “the special operation team of the Corps, Owode-Egba Zonal Command, under ACC Jimoh Rasaki Omoniyi, received a distress call that some members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Desires of Nations Parish, under Ogun Province 22, Abule-Ori in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area were attacked during a vigil, while seven members of the church were kidnapped and the pastor killed.”
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Submerged Niger braces again for furious flood
Sources: Vanguard newspapers
Lives and properties worth millions of Naira have been lost to flooding in Niger State.Houses were submerged while farm lands were also washed away by torrential rainfall.
Till now, many households are yet to recover from the devastating annual occurrence.
The federal, state and local governments have taken steps to end the annual menace but there haven’t been significant results.
The unsavory situation has meanwhile forced the Hydroelectric Power Producing Areas Development Commission (HYPPADEC) to take bold steps to mitigate the effect of looming flooding on the people this year.
Niger is one of the states due to be devastated again by flood this year, according to the Nigerian Meteorological Service (NIMET).
Besides the natural cause, which is severe rainfall, the three hydro electricity dams – Kainji, Jebba and Shiroro – have always had grave effects on the people along the dam areas.
Tinubu Will Sustain Nigeria’s Position In Africa_Alake
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President Bola Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Dele Alake, on Saturday in Lagos, said the President was ready to lead the charge on the local and foreign scenes as the rest of Africa looked up to Nigeria.
“Everybody is looking up to Nigeria, especially in Africa and the ECOWAS region and President Tinubu is ready to take up the gauntlet,” Alake told State House Correspondents when President Umaro Embaló of Guinea Bissau visited the President at his Ikoyi residence in Lagos.
The Director of Information, State House, Abiodun Oladunjoye, revealed this in a statement he signed on Saturday titled ‘African Issues: President Tinubu ready to take up gauntlet, says Dele Alake’.
Alake said Tinubu recognised that other African nations were taking cues from Nigeria in terms of leadership, adding that the President was prepared to step up to the challenge of providing a befitting example.
He noted that although both men met privately, President Embaló used the opportunity to express his solidarity and willingness to cooperate with Nigeria under the leadership of Tinubu.
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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