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Nigerian Gateway Exclusively Electing Leaders at That Level $1bn arms funds: Reps grill service chiefs, IGP, others today Defence met with the Ministry banditry, Monguno said, “The money, but the money is By: Akorede Folaranmi Nigeria has invited the Monguno (retd.), who said Inspector-General of Police, of Defence on the $1bn special during an interview with the President has done his best by missing. We don't know how, h e H o u s e o f Mohammed Adamu; service security fund released by the Hausa Service of the British approving huge sums of money and nobody knows for now. I Representatives Ad chiefs and other heads of Federal Government in 2017, Broadcasting Corporation on for the purchase of weapons, but believe Mr President will THoc Committee on the paramilitary agencies. part of which was used to pay March 12 that $1bn funds meant the weapons were not bought, investigate where the money Need to Review the Purchase, The security and service for 12 Super Tucano fighter to purchase arms to tackle they are not here. Now, he has went. I can assure you the Use and Control of Arms, chiefs are to explain the jets in the United States. insurgency during the ex-service appointed new service chiefs, President takes issues of this Ammunition and Related procurement and deployment of Reactions had greeted the chiefs' tenure got missing. hopefully, they will devise some nature seriously. Hardware by Military, arms and ammunition in their comments made by the In response to a question on ways. “The fact is that preliminary Paramilitary and Other Law respective agencies. National Security Adviser, why the Buhari regime was foot- “I'm not saying the former investigation showed the funds Enforcement Agencies in The House Committee on Major General Babagana dragging in the fight against service chiefs diverted the ...continued on page 4 Vol. 1 , No. 7 March 28, 2021 www.nigeriangateway.com N200 Kidnapping now lucrative business –Gov Masari ‘... Why I’m not in support of Sheikh Gumi’s intervention’ By: Ladan Bashir overnor Aminu Masari of Katsina State has Gtaken a swipe at his colleagues who are in the habits of negotiating with bandits and granting amnesty to terrorists. The former Speaker of the House of Representatives said the situation has made Nigeria to become economically attractive to kidnappers and bandits. The governor who spoke on Channels Television's Politics Today strongly opposed the idea of granting blanket amnesty to the bandits, stating that the idea is enabling the miscreants to continue with their crimes. Masari argued that the security situation in the country has improved since the All Progressives Congress took the L-R: Ogun State Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun; Chairman, All Progressives Congress Constitution Review Committee, Prof Mamman Tahir; Governors Gboyega reigns. Oyetola (Osun), Rotimi Akeredolu (Ondo) and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Olusegun Osoba at the South-West Stakeholders meeting on Constitution ...continued on page 5 Review held at the June 12 Cultural Center, Kuto, Abeokuta, Ogun State ... Friday. PHOTO: Rasheed Akintan Fish out sponsors of attack Ogun LG polls on Ortom PAGE 6 – Governors PAGE 7 hold Q3 2021 Global economy will lose $10tn Cargo Airport: First phase ready to COVID-19 – UNCTAD PAGE 2 next year – Abiodun PAGE 3 March 28, 2021 |17 March 28, 2021 |16 Opinion MediaWorld My thoughts ARS LONGA between the camera and the equipment. So if you are using Adobe you need to upgrade your on Nigeria's system and look at other latest high end OGTV gives staff wonderful products. You need to change your graphics. trade policy The XPRs we are using were bought in 2011 [email protected] …with Dare Folarin and when we invited people to look at it we – By Olisa Agbakoba were asked to forget it. We need to buy new arm welcome to a meeting of minds, on this page, where we get to x-ray the whole gamut of arts, spanning all the genres ones. 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I was posted to OSG School, in OGTV should be using memory cards as it proponents like Dr. Wale policy is designed to Alagbede, Odeda Local Government helps the reporter to package his story from Ademowo, Tobiloba promote local industries. I where FUNAAB is today. After they the venue of events with the help of the Folorunsho, Kingston hesitate to compliment picked some of us who had good grades memory card that can be inserted into a Mooreet al attribute the in English and we were moved to Trump's America First laptop. Even within our limited resources we success to the pioneering Secondary School when the late trade policy but Trump have been trying to change our cameras and efforts of the inimitable Governor Bisi Onabanjo established new understood the need to other equipment so that we can do the job “Abami Eda”, Fela secondary schools.” The yearning for p r o t e c t t h e U S b y better than we were doing it before. It is not Anikulapo-Kuti. 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