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President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the immediate resignation of the Service Chiefs, and their retirement from service. Those involved are the Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin; Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe Ibas; and Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar. President Buhari thanks the outgoing Service Chiefs for what he calls their “overwhelming achievements in our efforts at bringing enduring peace to our dear country,” wishing them well in their future endeavours. The new Service Chiefs are: Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral A.Z Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff. The President congratulates the new Service Chiefs, and urges them to be loyal and dedicated in the discharge of their responsibilities.

The Chairman, Medical Advisory Committee, CMAC, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, NAUTH, Nnewi, Anambra State, Dr. Joseph Ugbaja, has taken over as the Chief Medical Director of the hospital in acting capacity, as the tenure of the immediate past CMD, Prof Anthony Igwegbe expired today. The ceremony, which took place at the temporary site of the hospital in Nnewi, today was witnessed by chairman of hospital board, Chief Izekiel Iramiya; represented by a staff of the hospital, Mrs Rosemary Okeighazi; Deputy CMAC, Dr Ugochukwu Ezejiofor; Head of Corporate Affairs, Mrs Chinyelu Onwuka; Head of Accounts, Mrs V.C Nduka; Head of Works, Mrs Pamela Ohanaja; among others. Speaking to newsmen after the handover ceremony, the outgoing Chief Medical Director, Chief Anthony Igwegbe, said Dr Ugbaja, being his direct deputy, was taking over from him on acting capacity. "Dr. Ugbaja is taking over because he is my direct deputy. So, based on seniority, he will be acting until a substant

The All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed as “fake and highly mischievous”, some online reports (which we erroneously lifted from a national newspaper) indicating that it has postponed its membership registration and revalidation exercise scheduled to begin on Monday. The Party in a late-Saturday statement issued by the Secretary, Caretaker Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee CECPC, Sen. John James Akpanudoedehe said a notice in circulation ascribing the postponement to him “is fake and highly mischievous”.

The South East Zonal Coordinator of Young Nigerian Voices, Prince Collins Enwere, has called on Nigerians to support the project of having a Nigerian, from  South East extraction, at becoming the next president of the country come 2023. He made this known in a recent interaction with this newspaper. He however urged Igbo's to come together towards achieving this feat which has eluded the South East over the years. Prince Collins Enwere, an APC stalwart from Imo state, further tasked Ndigbo to join APC enmasse to ensure that Ndigbo play national politics, since the party is looking at the option of zoning the presidency to the South East. He called for Mass registration of Ndigbo into APC, with the start of registration on the 25th of January 2021. As this will give the party the encouragement, towards ceeding the presidency to the South East. He however commended the leadership of Young Nigerian Voices ably led by Alhaji Ibrahim Bature for standing up for the South East at getting

The Imo State chapter of  All Progressives Congress (APC) has said, that the party in the state  is waiting, for a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, to take action on his planned political group or alignment before taking a stand on the issue because they are too busy to meddle on issues without relevance at the moment. The party’s caretaker chairman in the state, Marcon Nlemigbo, said this in an interview with newsmen in Owerri on Thursday. He said, the party was currently focused on supporting President Muhammadu Buhari and the state governor, H.E Sen. Hope Uzodinma, to deliver dividends of democracy to the people of Imo state, as they are not ready to be distracted by Okorocha at the moment. Okorocha had in Rivers State recently, when he visited Governor Nyesom Wike to inaugurate some projects said, “We have bad people in APC, just as we have them in PDP and that was why I made the call in Rivers State that the good ones should come together to lead the people”. Asked w

- Insists the South East should produce next President. The Young Nigerian Voices, (YNV) a conglomeration of Nigerian youths, led by Alhaji Ibrahim Bature, has paid a courtesy visit to Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, the Minister of state for Education, in support of his bid to run for the number one position in Nigeria come 2023. The visit was in solidarity of his bid to contest for the Presidency come 2023 on the platform of the APC. In his opening remarks, the leader of the group,Alhaji Ibrahim Bature thanked the Minister for giving his group the audience to interact with him towards building a better Nigeria, where the youths can have their say, and also participate in governance of the country. He said that, his group as the name goes, is the majority of Nigerian youths, whose desire is for a better Nigeria.  He commended the Minister for his salient leadership qualities in TEF and in the ministry of  education, which has witnessed so much intervention in bridging the gap of giving mor