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President Umaru Musa Yar’adua |
Abia is disaster area...Says
Assembly, wants Yar’adua’s intervention
Stories
from GAMBO KANNO FUBARA, Umuahia
Abia state House of Assembly has called on President Umaru Musa
Yar’adua to declare Abia state a security disaster area, just as the
President was also asked to urgently take steps to ensure immediate
and complete overhaul of the security apparatus in the state.
In its resolution, following a matter of urgent public importance,
the house also urged the Inspector- General of Police and the
Director General of the State Security Service (SSS) to redeploy the
present leadership of both the police and the SSS in the state. .
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Malam Isa Yuguda
Bauchi Governor |
Polio: Yuguda challenges parents
From Sule Aliyu, Bauchi
Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi state has appealed to parents to allow
their younger ones to be immunized against polio in the current move
to eradicate the killer disease in the state.
The governor made the remark last Thursday while flagging off this
month campaign on polio eradication at Kafin Madaki village in
Ganjuwa local government area of the state.
According to him, he said statistics have shown that polio disease
is prevalence in only four countries namely: Afghanistan , Pakistan
, India and Nigeria hence the need to put more effort towards
eradication of the disease in Bauchi state and the country in
general.
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Mr. M.
Okiro I. G
of Police
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Police job can take you to heaven or
hell -- AIG
Mr Muhammad Yesufu, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG),
has observed that the role played by police personnel in crime
control and maintenance of law and order, can take them either to
heaven or hell.
``You have good opportunity of going to heaven, if you do justice.
You can equally go to hell, if you do injustice to all manners of
people,’’ he said.
Yesufu was addressing police
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Engr. Sani Ndanusa,
Sports Minister |
Nigeria needs N1bn to revive tennis
–Abdullahi
Former Nigerian tennis player, Sadiq Abdullahi, says Nigeria will
need about N1 billion to revive the game in the country.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdullahi and other
former leading players living abroad, have expressed concern over
the dwindling fortunes of tennis in the country.
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