NEWS FLASH

PRESIDENT TINUBU TRANSMITS TO THE SENATE LISTS OF AMBASSADORIAL NOMINEES

President Bola Tinubu has transmitted to the senate two lists of 34 career and 31 non career ambassadors nominees for screening and confirmation.

Prominent names listed as non career ambassadors include Reno Omokri, Femi Fani-Kayode, Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau, Victor Ikpeazu and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi.

Also listed as non career ambassadors nominees are Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Vice Admiral Ete Ibas, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, Senator Nora Daduut, Fatima Ajimobi, and Senator Ita Enang among others.

The two lists brings to 68 number of persons nominated so far as ambassadors awaiting confirmation by the Senate.

Tinubu Sends New Ambassadorial List to Senate, Adds Ibas, Chioma Ohakim, Ita Enang, Dambazau

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forwarded a fresh list of non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate, featuring several new additions not included in the earlier batch. The nominees include former Chief of Naval Staff Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, ex-Imo First Lady Chioma Ohakim, former presidential aide Ita Enang, and ex-Chief of Army Staff Abdulrahman Dambazau. Senate President Godswill Akpabio read the letter during plenary and referred the list to the Foreign Affairs Committee for screening within a week. The new nominations follow recent appointments of Reno Omokri, Femi Fani-Kayode, and Mahmood Yakubu, which sparked nationwide debate.

Ex-Army Chief Dambazau Laments Terrorists Now Collect Taxes, Make Laws in Northern Communities

Ex-Army Chief Claims US May Be Planning to Establish Military Base in Nigeria.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd.), has stated that the United States may be positioning itself to establish a military base in Nigeria.

Speaking in Abuja on Tuesday at the 7th Annual Lecture organised by the Just Friends Club of Nigeria, Dambazau argued that recent claims by some foreign politicians and religious figures alleging the persecution of Christians in Nigeria could be driven by external strategic interests.

Dambazau, who also served as Minister of Interior, noted that the US previously operated military bases in Niger Republic for over a decade but failed to prevent the escalation of insecurity there.

“In the more than ten years of US presence in Niger, where it maintained two military bases, what did the US do to prevent the growth of security challenges?” he asked.

He added that during the early phase of Donald Trump’s return to office, members of the US Congress accused USAID of financing terrorism in Africa.

“I think the US is looking for an opportunity to establish an alternative base in Nigeria, a country known to protect only its interests by any means possible, including the use of force.

He warns that “unfortunately, they have willing partners in Nigeria.”

Dambazau maintained that terrorism in Nigeria is not targeted at any single religious group, stressing that both Muslims and Christians have suffered attacks.