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  …suggests weapons enter nation through over 1, 000 illegal routes   •Speaks on the B/Haram mistake: Some people thought it was a northern problem   •Blames train attack, Kuje Prisons’ raid on poor response to emergencies   •‘ The problem with Amotekun , other regional outfits bearing arms’   •Says combating insurgents no easy task   …with 200, 000 soldiers     Lt Gen Abdulrahman B. Dambazau  ( rtd ) had a robust service in the Nigerian armed forces culminating in his appointment as the Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) in August 2008. Dambazau disengaged from the military in September 2010.   After his disengagement, he joined the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2011 and became its Director, Security for the presidential election same year. In 2014, he joined then mega opposition party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), and was subsequently appointed the APC Director, Security, APC Presidential ...

INSTEAD of responding to the challenge of accounting for the ecological fund allocated to them, Akwa Ibom and Delta state governments, weekend, chided the Federal Government for blaming states over the flood ravaging most parts of the country, admonishing it not to play politics with the worsening disaster. Last week, the Presidency challenged states to give an account of how they spent amounts in excess of N1 trillion, allocated to them from the Ecological Fund to tackle floods and other ecological problems. Several states, including Benue and Kogi in the North-Central; Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta in the South-South, had cried out to the Federal Government for help as they battled to provide succour for victims of flood. Presidential spokesman, Mallam Garba Shehu, in response to enquiries from Vanguard on the states, made reference to a comprehensive statement he issued on the subject in August, where said:   “Each of the three tiers, the local government, the state government ...

Music star, David Adeleke, popularly known as Davido, has finally announced his wedding to his lover and mother of his son, Chioma Rowland a.k.a Chefchi This is coming months after the duo, who had severed relationship as a result of Davido’s dalliance with another woman and his ‘Baby Mamas’, reconciled recently.   According to the singer in a video on social media, the wedding will hold in 2023.   In the visual, Davido and Chioma visited Nigerian UK-based pastor and social media sensation, Tobi Adegboyega and after exchanging pleasantries, the clergy described Chioma as “our wife, real wife”. It was gathered that Pastor Tobi, founder of Salvation Proclaimers Anointed Church, a Pentecostal Church based in London, England, gave a brand new expensive hand bag to Chioma during their visit as Davido eulogised him, saying; “My pastor”.

In what promises to be one of the fiercest verbal encounter in the electioneering season leading to the 2023 polls, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate,  Bola Tinubu, and his Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) counterpart, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday taunted each other in their ongoing battle of credibility. In the latest face-off, the standard bearers of the two major political parties were struggling for the soul of Kano State ahead of the 2023 general election. The APC standard bearer cast the first stone when, in a veiled reference to Atiku’s frequent trips to Dubai, said he would not be a Nigerian president who will spend 50 per cent of his time in the country and the rest 50 percent in Dubai, the United Arab Emirate (UAE). But hitting back hard at his APC counterpart, Atiku said the empty streets, which greeted Tinubu’s visit to Kano, was a clear indication that he had already lost the support of the people of the state. Atiku said the development had indicat...