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Nigeria Police Shares Values Of Discipline, Team Work, Excellence With Sports – IGP Olatunji Disu

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Nigeria’s Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Disu has come out with a symbolic declaration that the security force that he heads has a symbolic relationship with sports, in the sense that they both imbibe the values of discipline, teamwork and excellence.

Sports247 reports that IGP Disu gave the analogy while formally receiving Team Nigeria athlete from the recent Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, Nathaniel Ezekiel, who won the competition’s men’s 400m hurdles gold medal.

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Disu added during the official reception of the athlete, who is a corporal in Nigeria Police Force (NPF), at the headquarters in Abuja that Nathaniel’s victory is a reminder of what security personnel can do when provided with the necessary platform and support to excel.

While restating that Nathaniel’s feat underscores the longstanding relationship between the police and sports, Disu added that the achievement further strengthens the possibility of security persoennel excelling simultaneously in their professional duties and sporting careers.

He then assured police personnel with sporting talents that the NPF will continue to support them, while also promising to identify, nurture and celebrate talents within its ranks in order to continue churning out heroes and heroines for Nigeria on the international scene.

The IGP, who disclosed that he was also once a sportsman, further affirmed that another aspect of Nathaniel’s achievement which he was particularly glad and proud about is that the athlete-officer has brought honour to himself, his family, his colleagues, the NPF and Nigeria as a whole.

Disu expatiated, “As a sportsman myself, I take particular pride in this achievement. Corporal Ezekiel Nathaniel, you have honoured your uniform, your Force and your country. Congratulations, and may this be the first of many more victories to come.

“I want Corporal Ezekiel Nathaniel, and every officer watching, to know that this Force will continue to invest in and support police sports. We will keep identifying, nurturing and celebrating talent within our ranks, because a Force that is strong in body and spirit is a Force that serves the nation better.

“The Nigeria Police Force and sports (are) bound together by shared values of discipline, teamwork and excellence. This victory is a powerful reminder of that bond, and of what our personnel can achieve when given the platform and support to thrive both in service and in competition.”

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2027: Igbo can produce Nigeria’s President only through dignity – Sam Amadi

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The Director of the Abuja School of Social and Political Thought, Sam Amadi, has hinted on the “only” path the Igbo race can produce Nigeria’s President.

Amadi disclosed that the only pathway for the Igbo nation to produce Nigeria’s President is through dignity.

Posting on X, Amdi wrote: “I have said it before, the only pathway to Igbo presidency in Nigeria is a path called ‘dignity’. Eji ndu eme gini (what is the value of life), talk less of Nigerian presidency, outside dignity.”

During the 2019 and 2023 elections, there were clamours for the South-East to produce Nigeria’s President.

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Former Anambra State governor, Peter Obi was the presidential running mate to then Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, flagbearer, Atiku Abubakar, in 2019 but the party lost.

In 2023, Obi decamped to the Labour Party, LP, in his push to become Nigeria’s President but he came third behind Atiku and eventual winner and candidate of the All Progressives Party, APC.

Meanwhile, Obi will again contest the 2027 presidential election under the platform of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC.

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2027: Abuja is for Peter Obi – Isaac Fayose dares FCT Minister, Wike

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Social commentator and businessman, Isaac Fayose, has claimed that the presidential candidate of the Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, would comfortably win the 2027 presidential election in Abuja.

Fayose made the claim on Tuesday while appearing on News Central TV, amid a recent statement by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, that the opposition lacks popularity in the nation’s capital.

Wike had, during an interview, described the 2027 election as an easy contest, insisting that President Bola Tinubu would win both Rivers State and the FCT.

However, Fayose disagreed with the minister, asserting that “Abuja is NDC, Abuja is Peter Obi.”

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Fayose stressed that there was nothing else the ruling party could do other than “write results”, but said they had plans to prevent any alleged attempt to rig the election.

According to him, the NDC has put strategies in place to ensure that the election is not manipulated by anyone.

“People are ready to vote. All we are scared of now is what angle are they going to suppress us from this time? This is the only area we are trying to fine-tune.

“Go to the street and try to talk to one or two people. Ask them, ‘Who are you going to vote for?’

“Abroad, before the proper election, they seek people’s opinions on who they want to vote for through mock elections. We don’t do that in Nigeria, but we need to start doing it,” he said.

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