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  • Feb, Thu, 2020
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Aisha Yesufu’s threat to Amaechi calls for concern -Ohaneze Ndigbo

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By Omuboye Sukubo
Port Harcourt, Feb. 20, 2020 (NAN) The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohaneze Ndigbo says the threat to Mr Chibuike Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, by Aisha Yesufu in a video, calls for concern.
This is contained in a statement by the Secretary-General of the organisation, Mr Uche Okwukwu and  issued on Thursday in Port Harcourt.
Okwukwu said the group’s attention was drawn to a video posted on Instagram by Ms Yesufu, in which she told the world that the minister was not safe.
He quoted her as saying, “Amaechi, you think you are safe because you have escaped”.
According to Okwukwu, the statement was “an obvious reference to a purported attack on a passenger train in Kaduna, as the Minister made his way to honour his friend, the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai.
“Ordinarily, we would have overlooked the video as mere unfortunate rantings, but the choice of words in the video are weighty.
“And her obvious confidence that Amaechi will be in harms way, soon enough, is not only worrisome but deserving of a security alert.”
Okwukwu added: “As a peace loving and law abiding people, we do hereby call on security agents to beef up security around the minister.
“We also request that Aisha Yesufu be invited by security agents to explain in details the very essence of her video and why she is so sure that the minister is not safe.
“We reiterate that as a people, we will not fold our arms and watch our son and brother, who has worked so hard, for this country, to be harmed, this will not be tolerated.”
The Ohaneze Secretary General said it was on record that Amaechi had during his tenure as Rivers Governor, restored peace and security to the state, a testimony that he valued security of lives and property.
He also noted that Amaechi’s contributions as Minister for Transportation, had helped security agents in efforts to rid the country, especially, the north, of insurgency.
“We therefore call on security agents to rise to the occasion and get to the root of this video, which to us, is Aisha Yesufu’s privileged information of a plan in the pipeline.” (NAN)
OAS/CCN/MZA
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Edited by Chinyere Nwachukwu/Maharazu Ahmed
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Amaechi Vs Oshiomhole, fake news – Organisation

Amaechi Vs Oshiomhole, fake news – Organisation
By Chioma Ugboma
Disparage
Lagos, July 26, 2017 (MAN) The President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation has described as fake news speculations that its Director-General, Mr Rotimi Amechi, disparaged the APC National Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole.
Mr Festus Keyamo (SAN), the Director, Strategic Communications of the organisation, said this in a statement issued to the New Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos.
“Our attention has been drawn to a news item purporting that the Director-General of President Muhammadu Buhari Campaign Organisation, His Excellency, Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi, disparaged the Chairman of our great party, the APC, His Excellency, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, to the effect that he is “bad luck” to the Party.
“This news item is a classic case of the much-touted `fake news’ that has become a tool in the hands of desperate politicians. It is also an unsuccessful attempt to create a division between both great leaders of the Party.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we wish to state without equivocation that Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi did not at any forum, whether in private or public, utter such words or anything close to those words in reference to Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. He holds Comrade Adams Oshiomhole in the highest esteem possible.
“We have since discovered that this `fake news’ was concocted, released and circulated by the sinking main opposition party. Indeed the combination of Rt. Honourable Rotimi Amaechi and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole is an obvious nightmare to them.
“From our intelligence sources, we wish to alert the general public that as the campaigns draw closer, many of such fake news would be released and circulated by the opposition that is presently clutching at straws and harvesting chaff to survive.
“For them blackmail, outright lies, falsehood and now fake news have become their campaign strategy.
“For us, we shall continue to alert the general public anytime such fake news is released and urge them to continue to ignore such stories.
“However, on our part, we are set to run an issue-based campaign,” Keyamo said. (NAN)
CHOM/MST
Edited by Chioma Ugboma/Muhammad Suleiman Tola

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(Video) NAN News Highlights for Tue., July 17, 2018

 

  1. President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the 123 State-Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to support the court’s jurisdiction over serious cases of corruption and illicit financial flows by state actors.

 

The President made the call at The Hague in his speech to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rome Statute of the ICC.

 

The International Criminal Court was established twenty years ago as a global court, inspired by the Nuremberg trials of World War II war criminals, to hold people accountable for crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes of genocide and aggression.

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2. UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, has commended Nigeria for issuing the world’s first fully-certified sovereign green bond, a N10.69 billion bond, also known as climate bond.

 

Mohammed, who gave the commendation at the launch of a book at the UN headquarters in New York, said Nigeria was the first African country to issue a certified sovereign green bond and the world’s fourth sovereign issuer of green bonds.

 

Green bonds are fixed income securities issued to finance projects that have positive impact on the environment.

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3. The Federal Government says electricity generation from hydro sources could reach 19,000 megawatts once they are fully harnessed.

The Minister of Science and Technology, Mr Ogbonnaya Onu, who stated this, said Nigeria required a minimum of 160, 000 megawatts of electricity but currently generated only 7, 000 megawatts.

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4. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) says it has rescued 468 victims of human trafficking in the last six months.

NAPTIP’s Command in Benin Zone said that about 30 suspected human traffickers were arrested; two were convicted, while 33 cases were still pending in various courts within the period.

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5. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has received the maiden Blueprint Newspaper award for his contributions to rail development and building of the first monorail system in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe, Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele and Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna Central also received awards at the Blueprint Impact Series/Awards ceremony held in Abuja
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