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 EXCLUSIVE: Presidential Guards Brigade Placed On High Alert Over Suspicions Of Coup Plot In Nigeria; Key Brigades Under Watch As Commander Holds Emergency Meetings With Tinubu, Gbajabiamila The Presidential Guards Brigade has been put on high alert following unusual movements, leading to suspicions of a coup plot in Nigeria.   SaharaReporters exclusively learnt on Sunday that the suspicions prompted emergency meetings involving the Commander of the Presidential Guards Brigade, Col. Adebisi Onasanya, President Bola Tinubu and the Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila. “The Presidential Guards Brigade was placed on high alert after unusual armoured corps movement spurred coup suspicion, “Last week, Col. Onasanya met with the President and Chief of Staff twice within 20 hours. “They have also placed key brigades under watch due to planned protest,” a top Presidency source told SaharaReporters.   There has been tension in the country amid the current hardship, rising inflation and high cost o

OKPOLUPM ETTEH ADVOCATES FOR EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION AMONG REGIONAL PARLIAMENTS  OKPOLUPM ETTEH ADVOCATES FOR EFFECTIVE COLLABORATION AMONG REGIONAL PARLIAMENTS Hon. Okpolupm Etteh, Deputy Chairman of the House Committee on University Education and Member representing Eket/ONNA/Esit Eket/Ibeno Federal Constituency, has emphasized the need for collaboration and cooperation to promote efficient regional parliamentary operations. He underscored the importance of fostering effective partnerships among regional parliaments at the just concluded 64th Session of the Organization of African, Caribbean, Pacific States (OACPS) Parliamentary Assembly and Constitutive Meeting/1st Session of the OACPS-European Union Joint Parliamentary Assembly (OACPS-EU JPA) which took place in Luanda, Angola.  The event, held from the 17th to the 21st day of February 2024, revolved around the theme “A New Dawn in OACPS-EU Relations: Towards a People-Led Partnership.” Hon. Etteh also hinted that the event afforded

 Lion k!lls OAU zoo keeper while feeding animals A staff member of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife Zoological Park, Olabode Olawuyi, has been k!lled by a nine-year-old lion in the zoo. A statement released by the public relations officer of the University, Abiodun Olarewaju, said Olawuyi, until his d£ath was a Veterinary Technologist, who had been in charge of the Zoological garden for over a decade. “Mr Olawuyi has been taking care of the lions since they were born on campus about 9 years ago but, tragically, the male lion k!lled the man who had been feeding them.’’ According to the statement, other members of staff who were at the scene of the incident did everything within their power to rescue their boss but the wild cat had already caused severe fatalities. “The other members of staff who were at the scene of the incident did everything within their power to rescue their boss but the wild cat had already caused severe fatalities. Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adebayo Sim

 IKOT-EKPENE COUNCIL BOSS FLAGS OFF RAFIA CITY YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP SCHEME ...as 94 youths drawn from 12 wards begins first batch training Inline with the Arise Agenda of the Umo Eno led administration, the Chairman of Ikot Ekpene Local Government Transition Committee, Hon. Sir. John Cleton Etim has flagged of the first phase of his pet project, ‘‘the Raffia City Youths Entrepreneurial Training. The entrepreneurship development scheme which commenced yesterday has 94 youths of Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area drawn from the 12 wards in the area as beneficiaries of it's first phase, code-namedRaffia City Youth Entrepreneurship Scheme, RACYES. Flagging off the exercise, the Transition Committee Chairman, Ikot-Ekpene Local Government Transition Committee, Sir. Cleton Etim, described the initiative as a fullfilment of his desire to re ignite the spirit of entreprise of which Ikot-Ekpene was known for. “I stand before you today with great joy and a sense of purpose as we gather to ma

 PHOTO NEWS    Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Rt. Hon. Ekperikpe Ekpo with the Upstream Director Worldwide for Italian oil giant, Eni, Mr. Luca Vignati; its Sub-Saharan Africa Chairman, Mr. Mario Bello; Managing Director, Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC), Mr. Fabrizio Bolondi and the company's spokesman, Dr. Richard Orianzi who were on a courtesy visit to the Minister in Abuja on Tuesday. #Followglobaltrsutnewsblog Send your story, to our Email: globaltrustng@gmail.com or whatsapp +234805 184 2932 .

 The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, Host Communities Development Trust, and the Burden of Community Development. For decades, the relationship between oil companies and their host communities in Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region has been fraught with tensions. Communities bearing the environmental and socio-economic brunt of oil exploration were deprived of their fair share of oil wealth. These oil-producing regions suffer from environmental degradation, poverty, and underdevelopment due to decades of oil operations by multinational companies. Efforts by the government and oil companies to develop these communities through corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives were inadequate and unsustainable. The lack of clear regulations outlining oil companies' responsibilities towards host communities resulted in a sense of distrust and community unrest. The unstructured approach to community development initiatives before the PIA further strained the community-company