NDA INVASION: WHAT WILL TOMORROW BRING?

 NDA INVASION: WHO KNOWS WHAT TOMORROW WILL BRING?

In the early hours of last Tuesday, we were hit by the news that some suspected armed bandits invaded the Nigeria Defence Academy. While there, two officers were reportedly killed & a major was abducted to only God knows where. What a national disgrace! 

The Nigeria Defence Academy trains officer cadets for commissioning into the three services of Nigerian Armed Forces; the Army, the Navy and the Airforce. If such a security industry could easily be plunged and its officers killed and kidnapped, then no one is safe in this country.l

Yesterday, it were the students in some schools in same Kaduna and other states within the country especially, in the north region. Today, it is the Nigerian Defence Academy. Who knows what tomorrow will bring?

This is a pointer to the fact that the President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, is not doing enough to protect and preserve lives and properties which he did swore with the Holy Koran to do in 2015 and 2019, respectively.

Admitted, security is every body's business. You and I owe ourselves the duty to be security conscious at at all times. We need to be alert always and report suspicious persons and activities to security agencies and personnel. This we do! Truth is, it is either our security apparatuses are weak and not capable of wrestling our common enemies - Armed robbers, bandits, Boko Haram, herdsmen, name them or there is an unwillingness on the part of our officers to combat them.

Being that men of our Armed forces have also been victims of the insecurity in the land, one may be quick to pick the former, rather than the latter to be the major reason of the security lapse in our country. 

Our men of the Armed Forces should be adequately empowered and equipped with the needed weapons to combat every form of terror and terrorists that have maimed, kidnapped and killed innocent citizens in our land.

Again, let us not take lightly, the words of Commodore Kunle Olawunmi who spoke on Wednesday, 25th August, 2021 on Channel TV Sunrise Programmme. He claimed that some sponsors of Boko Haram are in government. He went further to alleged that some people want to "islamise this country." For a man who spent over three decades in the military service to have spewed such allegations and with evidences of terror in separate parts of the country, yet there is silence from the Chief Security Officer of our country, one cannot not but be compelled to believe him. To corroborate this claim, Governor of Benue state, Samuel Ortom has repeatedly cried out that his people are worse-hit and are at the receiving end of the herders-killing and kidnapping activities yet the President of the nation remains on mute mode. 

Only recently, the President came out to champion the establishment of grazing reserves in 25 states of the country. This is not only callous but insensitive and an outright assault to the living and the dead in their ancestral lands. 

The release, rehabilitation and reintegration of the so-called Boko Haram repentants send a signal about this government's unseriousness in combating the menance. No one talks about those they kidnapped, killed and displaced from their homes. What about the soldiers who died at the battle fronts while wrestling Boko Haram men and bandits? What is the plight of the families and next-of-kins they left behind? Why has the government refused to name, shame and convict those sponsors of terrorists in our land?

This is the realty: The war is far from being won. If nothing serious is done about the kidnappings and killings in our land, we may all be consumed. It is only a matter of time.

Ndoma-Egba Bags Global Achievers Media Lifetime Achievement Award, Abang bags Role Model Award, 2021

An accomplished physician and a professor of surgery, Prof. Rowland Ndoma-Egba will be honoured with a prestigious and highly celebrated lifetime achievement award by Global Achievers Media, soon.

In a statement by the Deputy Editor, Mr. Godswill Odiong, the long standing professor of surgery in the University of Calabar and Chief Consultant Surgeon in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Rowland Ndoma-Egba, will be honoured for his time-honoured dedication, diligence and absolute fidelity to the medical profession. 

Ndoma-Egba parades almost an innnumerable number of awards and honours and he is credited with over eighty peer reviewed scientific publications in reputable local and international journals as well as over 50 public lectures covering various subjects. 

He will for a long time be remembered for his intellectual contributions to the field of medicine which have expanded the frontiers of knowledge and opened up more research areas in orthodox medicine.

 Many of his products trained by him, constitute some of the best medical experts around the globe.

Also to be honoured soon is a long-standing chartered accountant, Mr. John Ekure Abang, with vast knowledge and experience in the field of accountancy, spanning over two decades. 

A thoroughbred professional, John Abang has impacted positively on the society through the instrumentality of the accounting profession. 

A forward figure, he is a member of several professional bodies and he is currently the operation and performance analyst in the Mfamosing Plant Operations of Lafarge Africa Plc.

He will always be appreciated for his humble,  kind disposition and contributions towards the well-being of several people and places in the society.

Global Achievers Season of Awards

In consistent and commitment to the practice of promoting positive ideals and ideas and in appreciation to those who have contributed immesurably to the well being of the society through their respective professions and personal resources, GLOBAL ACHIEVERS MEDIA is set to honour  individuals as well as organisations in the second edition of GLOBAL ACHIEVERS ONLINE MAGAZINE (globalachieversmedia.blogspot.com) AWARDS.

In the first phase of the second edition of the award, Mr. John Nyiam, a vibrant, versatile and viable young man will be honoured in the YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR category. This is in recognition and appreciation of his job creation role through his company, John Cherish; which has employed many youths and is credited to be one of the largest employers of labour in the private sector in Cross River State.

Also to be honoured is Barr. Enome Amatey, a serious lawyer, vocal crusader,  advocate and defender of human rights, renowned for his consistent crusades for the independence of the judiciary, he is a star whose light shines through the legal firmament. Having been in the legal profession for a decade now, he has recorded tremendous achievements at the bar.  Enome Amatey will be honoured in the YOUNG PROFESSIONAL category.

Also to be recognised and accorded honour in the YOUNG PROFESSIONAL category, is a female lawyer with remarkable achievements, Barr. Peace Ohiaeri. She is a role model to several young ladies who aspire to become great in the corporate and academic worlds.

The season of awards which will kick start formally on 19th May, 2021, will end on 1st June, 2021. 

In line with the times, and in order to keep to COVID-19 rules, there will be no formal ceremony as it were in the first edition. 

The awards will be sent to the recipients in their respective homes or offices as shall be provided.

Gunmen invade Benue Varsity Campus, Kidnap Students

Unknown gunmen have invaded the Federal University of Agriculture located in Makurdi, the Benue State Capital and kidnapped scores of students.

Details of the incident remained sketchy as at press time.

But DAILY POST gathered that the incident occurred on Sunday night when the gunmen stormed the campus, shooting sporadically to scare the university security away before taking some students to an unknown destination.

The university’s Director of Information, Protocol and Public Relations Unit (IPPR), Mrs Rosemary Waku, confirmed this on Monday morning.

Also, the state’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Anene Sewuese Catherine confirmed the incident to DAILY POST correspondent.

She promised to issue a statement shortly.

SOURCE: DAILY POST

Jihadists Kill 31 Soldiers in North East Nigeria

At least 31 Nigerian soldiers were killed when IS-aligned jihadists ambushed a military convoy escorting weapons and overran a base in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, military sources said on Monday.

Fighters from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) attacked the convoy with rocket-propelled grenades on Sunday in the town of Mainok outside the regional capital Maiduguri before storming the nearby base, the two sources said.

The attack was the deadliest this year against Nigeria’s army which has been battling a decade-long jihadist insurgency in the region that has killed 36,000 people and displaced around two million from their homes.

“We lost 31 soldiers, including their commander who was a lieutenant colonel, in the ambush by the terrorists,” a military officer said about the attack which happened around 1100 GMT.

The convoy was transporting weapons to Maiduguri when it came under attack, said a second military source who gave a similar toll.

“The terrorists came in several trucks, including four MRAPs (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles) and engaged the convoy in a fierce battle,” the second source said.

The militants overwhelmed soldiers, leading to the “colossal loss” of troops, he said.

“We lost a lot of men in very gruesome way.”

The jihadists seized weapons and two MRAPs in the attack before overrunning and partially burning the base outside the town, the two sources said.

Mainok, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Maiduguri, has been repeatedly targeted by the jihadists.

ISWAP has frequently set up bogus checkpoints along the 120-km highway linking Maiduguri and Damaturu in neighbouring Yobe state on which Mainok lies, killing and abducting travellers.

ISWAP split from mainstream Boko Haram faction in 2016 and rose to become a dominant force in the northeast as Nigeria’s conflict has spilt over borders into neighbouring Chad, Niger and Cameroon.

SOURCE: GUARDIAN

Soyinka Asks FG To Seek Help Over Insecurity, Stop Blame Trade

 

Nobel laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria, to seek help where necessary to regain peace in the country and chart a way forward without using Nigerians as victims.

He made the call in a statement while reacting to the killings across the country by bandits, terrorists, and other gunmen in the country.

Professor Soyinka decried that these gunmen have sacrificed and traumatised the country’s youths beyond their capacity to cope.

According to him, the country is at war and it is time to stop pretending while the government should put in more efforts to stop the killing of youths who are the future.

The Nobel laureate also condemned the practice of blame trade, saying it should be left for later.

SOURCE: CHANNELS

Three Students Killed in Nigeria after Kidnapping at Greenfield University

Abuja, Nigeria (CNN)Three students kidnapped by armed bandits from Greenfield University in northern Nigeria on Tuesday have been killed, a local official said in a statement on Friday.

"The armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students," said Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Kaduna State Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, in a statement posted on Facebook.

Aruwan said the remains of the three kidnapped students were found on Friday in Kwanan Bature village, which is near the university.

At least 20 students and three staff members of Greenfield University, a private academic institution in Kaduna, northwest Nigeria, were abducted on Tuesday night by armed men, one official told CNN on Thursday.

Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai condemned the killing of three students as "sheer wickedness, inhumanity and an outright desecration of human lives by vile entities." He went on to say the armed bandits represent the worst of humankind and must be fought at all costs.

SOURCE: CNN