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Air Peace in Egypt ready to airlift stranded Nigerians – FG
Air Peace in Egypt ready to airlift stranded Nigerians – FG
Air Peace aircraft has landed in Egypt to airlift stranded Nigerian students in the war torn Sudan to Nigeria.
Chairperson of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said this in a tweet on Tuesday.
She said the aircraft would take students who had been given clearance to move into the North African country.
“Sudan update: Nig Embassy in Egypt has moved all evacuees from the Sudan side to the Egypt side of the Arqeel border, with priority given to the females,” the NIDCOM chair tweeted.
“They are now being prepared for their departure to Abuja through Aswan Airport.@flyairpeace has just landed. Big gratitude to the Nigerian Embassy in Egypt for their tireless efforts.”
Chairman of Air Peace, Allen Onyema, had offered to use the airline to evacuate Nigerians stranded in Sudan for free.
He also said if Nigerians in the North-East African region could be moved to a neighbouring country, the airline would fly there and evacuate them, as Sudan’s airspace is closed for civil aviation flights.
As part of joint rescue efforts, the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) evacuation team left for Aswan Airport in Egypt on April 29 to also airlift the stranded Nigerians.
Many citizens moving away from the crisis-nation had been stranded at the Egyptian border following visa issues.
But on Monday, Dabiri-Erewa said the border was opened after President Muhammadu Buhari spoke with Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the Egyptian president.
The first set of evacuated Nigerians were initially expected to arrive in the country on Friday.
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Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
Reality star Tacha has tackled Nigerians on what she described as ‘selective outrage’ following the trending internet topic, bullying.
Her criticism followed a video capturing the bullying of a student by her classmates at Lead British International School in Abuja circulated online.
Angered by the outrage that followed the video, Tacha lambasted Nigerians for being hypocrites.
On her platform X, she uploaded a video where she criticized social media users, emphasizing that many of those advocating for justice in the prominent bullying incident were also prone to swift criticism and may have exhibited bullying behaviour during their own secondary school days.
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She said: “This thing with Nigerians and selective outrage is something that I would never understand. All of a sudden everyone is acting brand new screaming ‘justice for…’ since yesterday and today, as if you guys were not bullies back in secondary school. Or as if you guys did not watch your friend bully junior students for doing absolutely nothing or seizing their food.
“You people wake up and bully celebrities unprovoked and insult them and nobody says anything. Is that not bullying? Are you not bullies yourselves? Justice for you! Justice for Tacha too that you people would insult unprovoked. Even if the person that they are owing over a million naira, no outrage because it’s someone that you don’t like. Hypocrites! Don’t come and be disturbing this timeline with justice for…’”
Bullying: Tacha accuses Nigerians of ‘selective outrage’
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BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
Enugu State Senator, Ayogu Eze, has reportedly passed on at the age of 66.
Eze represented Enugu North Senatorial District in Nigeria’s upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly, the Senate.
Eze, a former Senate spokesman, reportedly died in an Abuja hospital after a protracted illness.
A source familiar with the development disclosed that the late Senator had been battling serious health challenge for a while now.
According to the source, the undisclosed ailment prevented him from being at his child’s wedding ceremony held earlier in the year in Lagos State.
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He was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, before he quit the party to join the All Progressives Congress, APC, where he ran for Enugu State governorship election.
In the Senate, he was appointed chairman of the senate committee on Information and Media, making him the official spokesman of the senate in 2007.
After his reelection to the senate in 2011, he was appointed chairman of the committee on works.
Eze also served as a member of committees on Police Affairs, National Planning, Marine Transport and Federal Character & Inter-Government Affairs.
In May last year, the Senate confirmed the appointment of Eze and five others as Federal Commissioners for Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, RMAFC
BREAKING: Enugu senator, Ayogu Eze, dies at 66
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Nigerian man dies after snoring surgery in India
Nigerian man dies after snoring surgery in India
An unidentified man has died after his wife ‘’compelled” him to undergo a surgery in India to stop him from snoring.
Actor Ugezu Ugezu who shared the story online said the wife who was tired of her husband’s snoring convinced him to go to India for a medical surgery.
He said despite friends advising against it, the wife and her husband travelled to India for the procedure.
Sadly, the man died in the process and is to be returned home as a corpse.
‘’Who killed him?” Ugezu asked
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