[7:03 am, 12/02/2024] +234 803 920 8001:
President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians and supporters to be of good cheer despite Nigeria disappointing 2-1 defeat by Côte d’Ivoire on Sunday night at the 34th Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON final football march.
Sebastian Haller scored the winner to complete a second half comeback for Ivory Coast who avenged a group stage loss to Nigeria, and was crowned AFCON Champion for the third time.
Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, said this in a statement, “emphasizing that we won a great victory in the hearts of Africa and the world by our grit, rigour, and determination in the field of play”.
The statement said Tinubu, “salutes the Super Eagles of Nigeria for their tenacious performance in the 2024 tournament, “commends the team, the coach, the crew, and the entire management team for their hard work, assiduity, and sacrifice to come this far in the tournament”.
The Nigeria leader particularly acknowledged “the hurdles they consistently surpassed with steadily improving performance as they pulled through to the finals”.
According to the statement, “The President urges Nigerians to be of good cheer, emphasizing that we won a great victory in the hearts of Africa and the world by our grit, rigour, and determination in the field of play”.
Tinubu also said, “Let this passing event not dispirit us, but bring us together to work harder. We are a great nation bound as one by the green-white-green banner of resilience, joy, hope, duty, and untiring love”.
“To those cherished Nigerian youths expressing their gifts in communities, drawing lines in the sand as they play football in their humble rectangles of play, you can be our heroes tomorrow, do not relent in your pursuit. My administration is here to make dreams come true,” the President says”, Tinubu stressed.
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PRESIDENT TINUBU HAILS THE SUPER EAGLES, SAYS TEAM DEMONSTRATED THE GREAT RESILIENCE AND TALENT OF THE NIGERIAN PEOPLE
President Bola Tinubu salutes the Super Eagles of Nigeria for their tenacious performance in the final of the 2024 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) in Côte d’Ivoire.
President Tinubu commends the team, the coach, the crew, and the entire management team for their hard work, assiduity, and sacrifice to come this far in the tournament, acknowledging the hurdles they consistently surpassed with steadily improving performance as they pulled through to the finals.
The President urges Nigerians to be of good cheer, emphasizing that we won a great victory in the hearts of Africa and the world by our grit, rigour, and determination in the field of play.
“Let this passing event not dispirit us, but bring us together to work harder. We are a great nation bound as one by the green-white-green banner of resilience, joy, hope, duty, and untiring love. To those cherished Nigerian youths expressing their gifts in communities, drawing lines in the sand as they play football in their humble rectangles of play, you can be our heroes tomorrow, do not relent in your pursuit. My administration is here to make dreams come true,” the President says.
Chief Ajuri Ngelale
Special Adviser to the President
(Media & Publicity)
February 11, 2024
[7:08 am, 12/02/2024] +234 803 920 8001: NDLEA arrests drug supplier to terrorists, pregnant lady in Anambra
A suspected supplier of illicit drugs to terrorists in Banki, a border region between Nigeria and Cameroon.
Spokesman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
He said 42-year-old Ahmad Mohammed was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday 9th February at Bama check point.
Babafemi said 20,000 capsules of tramadol were recovered from the suspect during a search while on his way to deliver the opioid consignment in the border town.
In Anambra State, NDLEA also nabbed a six-month pregnant woman, Amarachi Akaolisa, 25, and another lady, Ifeoma Iheanyi, 21 fr for drug trafficking.
The duo, according to NDLEA was among six suspects arrested for dealing in illicit substances in Oraifite and Umuni-Evili, Aguleri area of the State.
The NDLEA gave the names of over suspects as Okwuchukwu Chukwuka; Onyedika Ngwu; Ekene Hyginus and Nzomiwu Ikechukwu.
NDLEA said over 6 kilograms of cannabis, tramadol, diazepam and codeine syrup were recovered from the suspects in the raids conducted between Tuesday 6th and Thursday 8th February 2024 in parts of the State.
It said it made bulk of the seizures in Nasarawa State where NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence on Sunday 4th February intercepted a truck marked Lagos JJJ 64 YC.
The truck was conveying 367 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 4,037 kilograms from Akure, Ondo State to be delivered at Shabu area of Lafia, the state Capital.
Three suspects: Shuaibu Yahaya Liman, 35; Monday Audu, 33, and Linus Samuel, 42 have been arrested in connection with the seizure.
Also, operatives in Abuja, FCT arrested the duo of Jibrin Shuaibu, 23, and Prosper Innih, 17, with 169 bags and 80 blocks of compressed cannabis sativa weighing 1,961.5kgs, the following day Monday 5th February 2024.
The consignment was concealed in a truck with registration number Ogun WDE 557 XC. The truck was intercepted during a stop and search operation along Abaji – Abuja highway on their way from Uzeba to Dei-Dei, FCT.
In another operation by NDLEA operatives in Abuja on Tuesday 6th February, a suspect, Abdulhameed Dauda, 27, was arrested with 89kgs of the same psychoactive substance loaded into his truck in Owo, Ondo State.
The illicit substances, according to NDLEA, were to be delivered at Gwagwalada in FCT. On the same day, operatives also intercepted another driver, Hassan Ade, 30, transporting 696.5kgs of the same substance loaded in Idoani, Ondo State.
The consignment was to be delivered at Gwagwalada and Dei-Dei in FCT. A follow up operation led to the arrest of a mother of three children, Mrs. Joy Chukwuka, 42, linked to the deal.
Men of the anti-narcotic Agency also intercepted 633.5kgs of cannabis at Eleyere, Ogbese in Akure North Local government Area of Ondo State in addition of seizure of illicit substances in Edo, Kano and Lagos State during the previous week.
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