Ayomikunle Daramola

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Goodluck Iheamnacho, the administrator of Ahoada east LGA in Rivers, resigned on Friday after serving a little over three months in office. In a resignation letter dated June 20 and addressed to Ibok-Ete Ibas, the state’s sole administrator, Iheamnacho said he was leaving the position to return to the private sector and thanked the people of the LGA for the opportunity to serve them.

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Usman Ododo, governor of Kogi state, says he will never betray Yahaya Bello, his predecessor. Ododo spoke on Friday after a courtesy visit to Abdullahi Ganduje, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and members of the national working committee (NWC) at the party’s headquarters in Abuja. The governor expressed profound gratitude for the pivotal role Bello played in his political ascent, adding that his loyalty to him is rock solid.

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President Bola Tinubu’s speech was briefly interrupted in Kaduna on Thursday when an unidentified man attempted to breach his security. Tinubu was in Kaduna to inaugurate several projects executed by Uba Sani’s administration when the yet-to-be-identified approached him, prompting the president to pause his speech. Tinubu appeared momentarily surprised but quickly regained composure as members of his security detail swiftly intervened, restraining the intruder before he could get any closer.

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Dele Farotimi, human rights advocate, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s visit to Benue state. The president was in Benue to commiserate with the state government and the people over recent attacks by suspected herdsmen which left over 200 people dead in Yelwata and Daudu communities in Guma LGA. In an interview on The Morning Brief,  Channels Television programme, on Thursday, Farotimi said that the president failed to address the gravity of the situation.

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Moshood Jimoh, the commissioner of police (CP) in Lagos, says response time to robbery and public order offences in the state has been cut to just five minutes. Speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily on Thursday, Jimoh said the response time used to be 10 minutes but has now been reduced to five. “Our response time to crime is less than 10 minutes. We have even reduced it further to five minutes. Once you call us, in under five minutes, we are there,” he said.