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Stakeholders hint Borno’s Elkanemi Warriors to Lift Federation Cup

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Stakeholders hint Borno’s Elkanemi Warriors to Lift Federation Cup

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Borno State football team, Elkanemi Warriors, has been charged to lift the 2024 federation cup which the final match was fixed for 29th June, 2024, at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena (Onikan), Lagos.

The NNL football competition tagged the “Battle of the Warriors’’ would be played between the Elkanemi Warriors of Maiduguri and Abia Warriors.

Chairman of Nigeria National League (NNL), Mr. George Aluo, made the charge while encouraging the Elkanemi Warriors to go all out and win this year’s President Federation Cup.

Aluo noted that the impressive performance of Elkanemi Warriors in both the second tier league and the Federation Cup is an indication that they can lift the trophy for the third time, after lifting the same in 1991 and 1992.

Aluo maintained that the number of NNL teams that made it to the quarter-finals and semi-finals of the FA Cup shows how solid the league is and the good work done by the league body and expressed confidence that the three other promoted teams will do well in the NPFL next season.

He also commended Nigeria Football Federation ( NFF) and their strategic partners GTI Assets Management & Trust Limited for bringing back the glamour of the most prestigious football tournament in the country.

“As football fans eagerly await the finals of this year’s Federation Cup, I must commend the NFF and their strategic partners, GTI, for what they have done to bring back the glamour of the most prestigious football tournament in the country.

“History will always remember them as those who changed the narratives of Nigerian football and I will be ever grateful to them”, he concluded.

The winner of the President Federation Cup will represent Nigeria in the CAF Confederation Cup along side Enyimba FC of Aba.

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APC Youth Group Urges Tinubu to Reward APC-IGG National President Amb Musa Tsoken

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APC Youth Group Urges Tinubu to Reward APC-IGG National President Amb Musa Tsoken

By Jabiru Hassan

“Ambassador Musa Muhammed Tsoken deserves a reward from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for his selfless services to the All Progressives Congress under his support group, the APC Initiative for Good Governance.”

This was announced by the APC Youth Association for Good Governance (YAG) under the leadership of Comrade Mustapha Umar Tallo Gwarzo in an interactive session with newsmen in Kano. They added that Ambassador Musa Tsoken has done a commendable job of actualizing the APC’s victory during the 2023 general elections.

The group stated that the APC Initiative for Good Governance worked diligently to ensure that all APC candidates emerged victorious, organizing strong and formidable forces to campaign for the party and its flag bearers across the country.

“Our association has fully recognized the efforts of Ambassador Tsoken and his support group, and we are calling for his reward from the federal government to enable him to use his mandate in promoting the APC towards securing its second-term bid.”
YAG recognized the capacity of leaders such as Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Obot Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Hon. Abbas Tajudeen, Secretary to the Government of the Federation Sen. Dr. George Akume, and all the other leaders who are striving hard in all strata to ensure that the Renewed Hope Agenda comes to fruition. 
In conclusion, YAG assured Nigerians that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is making good efforts to make living more conducive in both rural and urban settlements.
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Security Forces Score Victory Against Terrorists, killed 4 in Borno

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Security Forces Score Victory Against Terrorists, killed 4 in Borno

By: Zagazola Makama

In a decisive operation, the Nigerian troops of Operation Hadin Kai, in collaboration with the Hybrid Force, successfully raided and killed Boko Haram terrorists in an enclave in Dipchari Village in Sambisa Forest axis of Bama Local Government Area of Borno State.

Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama, a Counter Insurgency Expert and Security Analyst in the Lake Chad region that attacked the terrorists enclave at about 09:30 a.m.
on Sunday, June 24, 2024, and engaged them, neutralizing the four of them.

The operation also resulted in the destruction of all life support structures belonging to the terrorists in the area.

Fortunately, there were no reported casualties or injuries among the troops.

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Nigeria: President Tinubu condemns bomb attack in Gwoza as another bomber detonated along Maiduguri – Monguni road killing two persons

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Nigeria: President Tinubu condemns bomb attack in Gwoza as another bomber detonated along Maiduguri – Monguni road killing two persons

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President Bola Tinubu strongly condemns the bomb attacks, which resulted in the loss of precious lives and the maiming of other citizens in Gwoza Local Government Area of Borno State, northeast Nigeria.

This is just as another bomber detonated her vest along Maiduguri, Monguni road killing herself and two others.

President Tinubu describes the attacks as desperate acts of terror and a clear manifestation of the pressure mounted against terrorists and the success achieved in degrading their capacity to launch offensives.

The President declares that the purveyors of wanton violence shall have a certain encounter with justice, and that these cowardly attacks are only but an isolated episode as his government will not allow the nation to slither into an era of fear, tears, sorrow, and blood.

The President states that his administration is taking necessary measures to secure citizens, emphasizing that efforts will be redoubled to ensure that those who trouble the nation, dispatching precious lives, and disruption are brought to justice.

Nigeria: President Tinubu condemns bomb attack in Gwoza as another bomber detonated along Maiduguri – Monguni road killing two persons

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