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Corps Member Receives Applause For Donating Solar Power To Community In Edo

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4 years ago

December 10, 2021

Kogi-born 27-year-old National Youth Corps member serving in Edo State, Emmanuel Fache, has donated six Solar Electricity Power to major streets that lead to Agbonmoba community in Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area of the state.

Commenting at the event, the Edo State Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs. Abiodun Olubukola, described Fache as a young man that is full of wisdom, insight, idea, courage, determination and focus who is eager to finish what he has started despite the obstacles.

The NYSC State Coordinator, represented at the occasion by NYSC Ikpob-Okha Local Inspector, Mrs. Uzebor A. Lixcana, begged the community youths, elders and the people to help monitor the facilities so that hoodlums will not steal or destroy them.

Olubukola equally urged other corps members to emulate Corps Member for making his environment better and for not leaving the environment the way he meant it.

She explained that definitely Agbonmoba community will keep on remembering Fache for the luadable, durable and tangible project in the locality.

“I also want to thank NYSC as a Scheme for giving us the opportunity for us to have a gathering like this. If not NYSC we will not be able to have a forum like this. I thank the State Coordinator NYSC in Edo State, Mrs. Olubukola, all the Staff, LGIs, Directors and Corp members for making this occasion a reality.

” Corp member Emmanuel Fache Omeiza, has done well. Among 225 Corp members serving in Edo state, only two distinguished themselves. They distingusihed themselves among other corps members for carrying out personal projects. That is what NYSC scheme is all about, not leaving their localities the way they meant it. Making the community better than the way they meant it before they came.

“What corp member Emmanuel Omeiza did is to brighten and lighten the locality. By providing six solar light to this Agbonmoba community. I want to say, back to darkness and welcomed to light. This community will never experience darkness any more. This project is a luiadable one, durable and is going to last for long. I beg the community that they should keep watching this project. And this project will fulfil the purpose why it is done.

“Let it continue to give light to this community, and Agbonmoba locality keep on enjoying the light. For Corp member Emmanuel Fache Omeiza, the community will never forget you in a hurry. They will keep remembering you, even after you have gone. Keep whatever you are doing, you may not know when it would pay you.

“It may not pay you, but your children or your generation. And I know God will surely reward you for it. Above all, corps members that are here, Presco and all that came to grace this event, I want to thank you for coming,” she asserted.

In her remarks, the Health and Safety Environment, Presco Plc, Edo State where Emmanuel Omeiza is serving, Mrs. Benedicta Elvis-Ogbe, Corper Omeiza is somebody that does not easily give up, when embarking on his projects.

She described Corps Member as a person who is focused with clear direction, adding that despite the constrains and plights, he did not give up until he saw the success of the projects.

In his comments, the General Secretary, Agbonmoba community, Mr. Efemwenkiekie Osamuyi, described Corper Emmanuel Fache Omeiza, as somebody that is reliable, dedicated and committed to seeing whatever he has started comes to a fruition.

Osamuyi appealed to other corps members to emulate Corper Omeiza to make the community more better and conducive to leave.

He added that the locality is a business environment full of various activities that make life moves on.

Disclosing what prompted him to execute the project, Fache posited that he embarked on the project after he had concluded with his investigation that the street leading to Agbonmoba village is often served as hideout to criminals, hoodlums and armed robbers who robbed and raped people in the community by night, hence he was motivated to installed the six solar electricity power to the street to light up the area to avoid chaos in the locality.

“As a young man coming from a very humble background, I experienced how difficult it could be to traverse through a society that has little or nothing to offer for survival and fulfilment of life dreams, especially, the youths, children of this generation.”

Continuing, Corper Omeiza asserted, “surviving through this as an ” Orphan,” to become a first -class university graduate, created a person in me to improve my society. I started my youth service with the urge to make an impact in my location, I would be posted to serve. I set out to implement initiatives that would help enhance life in my locality.

Talking about how he started conceiving the idea he said: “Several ideas were conceived, but could not be implemented due to inability to raise funds. Eventually, the need for this solar power lighting for Agbonmoba community was identified considering past criminal activities, which was made easier by the darkness around the area. I believe this project is a good response to one the ways to help curb the criminal activities.

“As I remain committed knowing that there is still more to be done to enhance and bring advancement to the society, I encourage governments, and all individuals to continue with this social responsibilities.”

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FULL LIST: US To Review Green Cards From 19 ‘Countries Of Concern’ After Washington Shooting

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15 hours ago

November 29, 2025

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The Trump administration announced on Thursday that it will review the immigration status of all permanent residents, or “Green Card” holders, from Afghanistan and 18 other countries following the attack on National Guard troops in Washington, D.C.

U.S. officials identified the suspect in Wednesday’s shooting as a 29-year-old Afghan national who previously worked alongside American forces in Afghanistan.

The individual was granted asylum earlier this year, not permanent residency, according to AfghanEvac, an organisation that assists Afghans resettled in the United States after the Taliban takeover in 2021.

“I have directed a full-scale, rigorous reexamination of every Green Card for every alien from every country of concern,” said Joseph Edlow, director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), on X.

The review follows a June executive order from President Trump classifying 19 countries as “of Identified Concern.”

The order banned entry for nearly all nationals from 12 countries, including Afghanistan. The full list of these countries is:

Afghanistan

Myanmar

Chad

Congo-Brazzaville

Equatorial Guinea

Eritrea

Haiti

Iran

Libya

Somalia

Sudan

Yemen

A partial travel ban applies to seven additional countries, though some temporary work visas remain allowed: Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan, and Venezuela.

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Romanian Defence Minister Quits After Admitting Error In Academic Record

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16 hours ago

November 29, 2025

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Romania’s defence minister resigned on Friday after saying he made a “mistake” on his CV about his university education, as controversy swirled over alleged lies on his resume.

Ionut Mosteanu – who has admitted to writing on his CV that he graduated from a university he never attended – said he did not want the row “to distract” the NATO member at a time when it and Europe are “under attack from Russia”.

Romania has repeatedly seen drone fragments fall on its soil since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, and reported a number of drone incursions.

On Tuesday, a drone crashed in eastern Romania, which borders Ukraine.

Romania has also accused Moscow of “hybrid attacks”, including meddling in presidential elections last year that were subsequently annulled.

“Today, I resigned from my position as minister of national defence,” Mosteanu said in a Facebook post, adding he wanted the country to be focused on its “difficult mission”.

“Romania and Europe are under attack from Russia. Our national security must be defended at all costs,” he added.

Mosteanu had come under pressure after a media investigation published on Thursday revealed that he wrote in a CV that he graduated from a university which he did not actually attend.

That same day he apologised for what he called “a mistake”.

“In a CV I quickly put together in 2016 using a template I found online, there is a mistake that I admit embarrasses me. I didn’t pay much attention to these details at the time,” he said on Facebook.

Mosteanu was appointed defence minister in June of this year, when a new pro-European government was formed after months of political turmoil.

Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan said in a press release that he would propose economy and tourism minister Radu Miruta take over the defence portfolio in the interim.

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Russia Insists Ukraine Must Cede Land Or Face Continued Military Push

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2 days ago

November 27, 2025

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that he would end his Ukraine offensive if Kyiv withdrew from territory Moscow claims at its own — otherwise his army would take it by force.

The Russian army has been slowly but steadily grinding through eastern Ukraine in costly battles against outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian forces.

Washington has meanwhile renewed its push to end the nearly four-year war, putting forward a surprise plan that it hopes to finalise through upcoming talks with Moscow and Kyiv.

“If Ukrainian forces leave the territories they hold, then we will stop combat operations,” Putin said during a visit to Kyrgyzstan. “If they don’t, then we will achieve it by military means.”

Russia controls around one-fifth of Ukraine’s territory. The issue of occupied land, which Kyiv has said it will never cede, is among the biggest stumbling blocks in the peace process.

Another important issue in the talks are Western security guarantees for Ukraine, which Kyiv says are needed to prevent Moscow from invading again in the future.

Washington’s original plan — drafted without input from Ukraine’s European allies — would have seen Kyiv withdraw from its eastern Donetsk region and the United States de facto recognise the Donetsk, Crimea and Lugansk regions as Russian.

The US pared back the original plan over the weekend following criticism from Kyiv and Europe, but has not yet released the new version.

Putin, who has seen the new plan, said it could be a negotiation starter.

“Overall, we agree that it could form the basis for future agreements,” he said of the latest draft, which the US is thought to have shortened to about 20 points.

US negotiator Steve Witkoff was expected in Moscow next week to discuss the revised document, Putin said.

US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is meanwhile due to visit Kyiv later this week, Ukraine’s top presidential aide Andriy Yermak said.

– ‘Little can be done’ –

In his remarks Thursday, Putin repeated the claim that Russia had encircled the Ukrainian army in Pokrovsk and Myrnograd in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region — the most fiercely embattled area and a key target for Moscow’s forces.

“Krasnoarmeysk and Dimitrov are completely surrounded,” he said, using the Russian names for the cities.

Moscow was also advancing in Vovchansk and Siversk, as well as approaching the important logistic hub of Guliaipole, he added.

The Russian offensive “is practically impossible to hold back, so there is little that can be done about it”, Putin said.

Ukraine has denied Pokrovsk and Myrnograd are encircled, insisting its forces continue to hold the enemy along the front line.

Putin also questioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s legitimacy and said signing any agreement with him would be legally “almost impossible” at the moment, a suggestion that has drawn groans from Kyiv and its allies.

According to data analysed by AFP from the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW), Russian forces have conquered an average of 467 square kilometres (180 square miles) each month in 2025 — a step up from 2024.

Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the worst armed conflict in Europe since World War II.

The war has killed hundreds of thousands of people and forced millions to flee their homes.