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Rivers Police Command Gets New Commissioner
A new Commissioner of Police, Mohammed A Indabawa, has been deployed to the Rivers State Police Command. Indabawa replaces Mr Suleiman Abba.
Mohammed Indabawa’s posting to Rivers State followed a major transfer and posting in the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) effected by the Acting Inspector-General of Police (AIGP), M.D. Abubakar. Mostly affected in the new arrangement are police officers in the rank of Commissioners of Police who were moved from various states and formations to new ones.
In the new posting, which was made public yesterday,
Olayinka B. Balogun is the new Commissioner of Police, Edo State Command while Chinweke E. Asadu will resume as the new commissioner of Police, Kwara State Command.
Other postings included Aliyu Musa, Sokoto State; Moses Saba-Ndagi, Railway Command; Joel K. Theophilus, Jigawa State; Kwakwe C. Katso, Benue State; Musa A Daura, Enugu State; Mamman Sule, Taraba State; Usman A. Gwary, Zamfara State;
James O. Caulcrick, Airport Command; Ikemefuna Okoye, Ogun State; Abdullahi Magaji; Kastina State; Chintua Amajor-Onu, Intelligence FIB FHQ.
Others who were affected by the posting were Adenrele T. Shinaba who is the new Commissioner of Police, FCT Command and Mark Adamu Idakwo, who was posted to Adamawa State.
Others included Tambari Mohammed, Oyo State; Baba Adisa Bolanta, Kebbi State; Moses Onireti, Yobe State; Kakafite Helen Adeyemi, Osun State; Ibrahim M. Maishanu, Ekiti State; Ibrahim Abdu, Gombe State; Edgar Tan Nanakumo, Ondo State; Ezechuckwu Osita, Cross River State; Ikechuckwu Aduba, Delta State; Bala A. Hassan; Borno State; Bala Nasarawa, Anambra State; Mohammed J. Abubakar, Kaduna State; Ambrose O. Aisabor, Abia State; Christopher T. Dega, Imo State; Umar Abubakar Manko, Lagos State; Christian A. Olakpe, Balyesa State; Abayomi Akermale, Nasarawa State; James O. Aroniyo, G.I FCID.
Also affected were Lawal Tank, Kogi State; Suleiman O. Lawal, Inspectorate E Dept. FHQ; Stephen Audu, Commandant PDC, Enugu; Mohammed Ibrahim, Commandant PC Maiduguri; Mohammed Ladan, Bauchi State; Irimiya F. Yerima, Commandant, PC, Ikeja; Umar Gwadabe, Akwa Ibom State; Abdullahi Yuguda, SARS; Sanusi Rufai, Commandant PC Kaduna; Mohammed M. Kastina, Welfare A Dept, FHQ; Usman T. Abubakar, Admin E Dept FHQ; Vincent Okoduwa, Administration B, OPS, FHQ; Benjamin O. Onwuka, CORD Courses PSC, Jos.
The rest were Kingsley O. Omire, Deputy CMDT, POLAC; Tonye E. Ebitibituwa, MSD. F Dept FHQ; Mohammed I. Sule, Border Patrol FHQ; John A. Opadokun, Training, E Dept FHQ; Mbu Joseph Mbu, COMPOL MOPOL; Olufemi A. Adeneke, FEDOPS B Dept. FHQ; Olufemi David Ogunbayode, Deputy FORSEC; Waheed O. Salau, Homicide FCID; Dorothy A. Gimba, Administration POLAC; Titilayo M. Busari, COMPOL Administration FCID;
Disye D. Nsirim, Niger State; Agboola Oshodi-Glover, Compol Cooperative; Foluso A. Adebanjo, Compol EOD, FHQ; A. K. Shodipo, Compol Port Authority Command and Patrick Dey Dokumor, Compol SPU.
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RSG Tasks Rural Dwellers On RAAMP …As Sensitization Team Visits Akulga, Degema, Three Others

Rivers State Head of Service, Dr (Mrs) Inyingi Brown, has called on rural communities in the State to embrace the Rural Access and Agricultural marketing project (RAAMP) with a view to improving their living conditions.
This follows the ongoing sensitization campaign by the State Project Implementation Unit (SPIU) visits to Degema, Abonnema, Afam headquarters of Degema, Akuku Toru and Oyigbo Etche and Omuma local government areas respectively.
Dr Brown who was represented by the Deputy Director, Special Duties in her office, Mrs Dein Akpanah, said RAAMP was initiated by the Federal Government and World Bank to economically empower rural dwellers.s
She said the World Bank understands the plights of rural farmers and traders in the State, and therefore came up with the programme to address them.
According to her, RAAMP will improve the conditions of farmers, traders and fishermen, and therefore, behoves on every rural communities in the State to embrace the programme.
The Head of Service also said the programme would support the youths to be gainfully employed while bridges and roads will be built to link farms and fishing settlements.
Also speaking, the State project coordinator, Mr Joshua Kpakol, said the programme has the potential of creating millionaires among farmers and fishermen in the State.
Kpakol who was represented by Engr. Sam Tombari, said RAAMP would help farmers and fishermen to preserve their produce.
According to him, the project will build cold rooms and Silos for preservation of crops and fishes while access roads will also be created to link farmers and fishermen to the market.
He, however, warned them against any act that will lead to the suspension of the projects by the World Bank.
Kpakol particularly warned against acts such as kidnapping, marching ground, gender based violence and child labour, adding that such acts if they occur may lead to the cancellation of the project by the World Bank.
During the visit to Oyigbo local government area, Mr Joshua Kpakol, said the team was there to let them know how they will benefit from the Raamp.
The coordinator who was personally at Oyigbo said the World Bank introduced the project to check food insecurity in the State.
He said already 19 states in Nigeria are already benefitting from the project and called on them to embrace the project.
Meanwhile, stakeholders in the three local government areas have commended the World Bank for including their areas in the project.
They, however, complained over the incessant attacks by pirates on their waterways.
At Degema, King Agolia of Ke kingdom said land was a major problem in the kingdom.
King Agolia represented by High Chief Alpheus Damiebi said many indigenes of the kingdom are willing to go into farming but are handicapped by lack of land.
Also at Degema, the representative of the Omu Onyam Ekeim of Usokun Degema kingdom, Osoabo Isaac, said Degema has embraced the programme but needed more information on the implementation of the programme.
Similarly, while High Chief Precious Abadi advised that the project should not be narrowed to only crop farming, a community women leader, Mrs Orikinge Eremabo Otto, called for the construction of cold rooms in all fishing settlements in the area.
At Abonnema, Mr Diamond Kio linked the problem of the area to incessant piracy along waterways.
He also expressed fears over the possibility of the project being hijacked by politicians.
Also at Abonnema, a stakeholder, Ikiriko Kelvin, called on the World Bank to design an agricultural project that will suit the riverine environment, while at Oyigbo, HRH Eze Boniface Akawo expressed satisfaction with the project.
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Senate Replaces Natasha As Committee Chairman

The political mudslinging between the Senate leadership and Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan continued yesterday as the Senate named Senator Aniekan Bassey as the new Chairman of the Committee on Diaspora and Non-Governmental Organisations.
Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced the appointment during yesterday’s plenary, confirming Bassey’s replacement of Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is currently on suspension.
Akpoti-Uduaghan was reassigned to the Diaspora and NGOs Committee in February after she was removed as Chair of the Senate Committee on Local Content during a minor reshuffle.
Bassey is the senator representing Akwa Ibom North-East Senatorial District.
Although no reason was given for her removal yesterday, the change is believed to be connected to her unresolved suspension.
In May, Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court ordered her reinstatement and directed her to tender an apology to the Senate.
However, the Senate has insisted it has not received a certified true copy of the court judgment.
Akpoti-Uduaghan who represents Kogi Central, has yet to resume her legislative duties despite a recent court ruling that voided her suspension.
In a televised interview on Tuesday, Akpoti-Uduaghan said she was awaiting the Certified True Copy of the judgment before officially returning to plenary, citing legal advice and respect for institutional process.
Although the Federal High Court described her suspension as “excessive and unconstitutional”, a legal opinion dated July 5 and attributed to the Senate’s counsel, Paul Daudu (SAN), argued that the ruling lacked any binding directive to enforce her reinstatement.
Akpoti-Uduaghan, one of only three female senators in the current assembly, said the continued delay in allowing her return was not only a denial of her mandate but also a blow to democratic representation.
“By keeping me out of the chambers, the Senate is not just silencing Kogi Central, it’s denying Nigerian women and children representation. We are only three female senators now, down from eight,” she said.