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The Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Mrs Zubaida Umar, has encouraged staff members to embrace modern technologies in the field of emergency management. Umar made the call at the opening of the NEMA Customer Service Week, themed “Above and Beyond”, on Monday in Abuja. She commended the workers for their resilience and determination
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Nigeria Senate leader, Opeyemi Bamidele has denied reports that he was working against Yoruba interests in the course of his legislative activities in the 10th National Assembly. He reacted to claims by some individuals in the media, describing them as “baseless, false and unfounded, claiming he had been dutifully serving the interests of Ekiti Central,
Senator Bamidele denies working against Yoruba interest
Nigeria Senate leader, Opeyemi Bamidele has denied reports that he was working against Yoruba interests in the course of his legislative activities in the 10th National Assembly.
He reacted to claims by some individuals in the media, describing them as “baseless, false and unfounded, claiming he had been dutifully serving the interests of Ekiti Central, Ekiti State, South-west and Nigeria by extension since his election into the National Assembly.
In a statement by his Media and Public Affairs and sent to DAILY POST on Wednesday, Bamidele challenged anyone or group of persons to come out with audio or video evidence to buttress the claim against him.
He said it was wrong for some media platforms to attribute a statement to him, claiming he said, “If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.”
He denied that he ever made such a statement, saying the false allegation was an attempt to pitch him against the Yoruba and other ethnic nationalities in the federation.
The lawmaker said he never mentioned regional government in line with the 1960 and 1963 Constitution at the 27th-28th September 2024 Senate Retreat on the Review of the 1999 Constitution.
“The claim is far from the truth. I never spoke about the return to the regional government at any forum; neither did I claim that ‘If we allow the regional system in Nigeria, we would have automatically given the easterners Biafra.’
“It is a sheer case of misinformation and deliberate fake news, which do not in any way represent my worldview about federal governance structure,” Bamidele said.
Bamidele, however, warned that he would not hesitate to legally challenge any individual or establishment fabricating and circulating fake news against his person and office, insisting that there was no proposal for a regional government.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court said Tuesday it was lifting a ban on Elon Musk’s social network X, which was blocked in its biggest Latin American market for over a month amid a row over disinformation. “I authorise the immediate return of the activities” of the social platform, Judge Alexandre de Moraes said in his ruling, after
The US State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to any foreign person or entity engaging in election interference, it said just weeks before Americans select their next president. An announcement from the department’s Rewards for Justice programme specifically singled out Russian media organisation Rybar LLC, which it
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