Speaker 1: There is still no peace in sight after nearly three
Speaker 1: hours of meeting held in Anchorage City in Alaska, a
Speaker 1: state in the United States US between President Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: of Russia and President Donald Trump of the United States
Speaker 1: over the war Russia launched since twenty twenty two in Ukraine,
Speaker 1: which has led to thousands of deaths, mostly Ukrainians, which
Speaker 1: President Voladimir Zelensky of Ukraine, who was not invited for
Speaker 1: the meeting on Friday, in a statement, said that it
Speaker 1: was time to end the war, but Russia must take
Speaker 1: the necessary steps to a genuine peace. Steel And while
Speaker 1: commenting on the statement made by the President of Poland
Speaker 1: Karl Navoki on Friday via x social media platform to
Speaker 1: mark Poland Armed Forces Day, which coincided with the day
Speaker 1: Putin and Trump met in Alaska, President Zelenski said that
Speaker 1: Ukraine's independence strengthens Poland's independence and we must always remember
Speaker 1: that the Miracle on the Vistula was made possible through
Speaker 1: joint efforts and it saved Europe and the Polish President
Speaker 1: Karl Navoki had said that today we celebrate the one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifth anniversary of the Great Polish victory at
Speaker 1: the Battle of Warsaw. In nineteen twenty, the Polish Army,
Speaker 1: together with Ukrainian forces, successfully repelled the Red Army's westward March,
Speaker 1: safeguarding Europe from a communist revolution. For centuries, Russian imperialism
Speaker 1: has been a mortal threat to our freedom. Poland's political
Speaker 1: tradition teaches that Russian expansionism rests on a legacy of
Speaker 1: domestic despotism, in which the only freeman is the ruler himself.
Speaker 1: But precisely because Russian despotism is the enemy of freedom,
Speaker 1: Russian imperialism can only be defeated through an alliance of
Speaker 1: free peoples. My nation halted Russian imperialism at Usher fifteen fourteen,
Speaker 1: Klashido one thousand, six hundred ten and Warsaw nineteen twenty.
Speaker 1: It was probably a synature of world attention when Air
Speaker 1: Force one and Russia presidential aircraft officially wheeled down a
Speaker 1: joint and bay Selbendorf as President Donald Trump and President
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin met face to face for the first time
Speaker 1: since the war in Ukraine started on February twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, and the Friday meeting marked the first
Speaker 1: time President Vladimir Putin of Russia was stepping on western
Speaker 1: country soil since he launched the war against Ukraine. He
Speaker 1: was able to meet Trump in Alaska because the US
Speaker 1: is not a member country of the International Criminal Court
Speaker 1: Ices that issued a warrant of arrest against the Kremlin
Speaker 1: leader since twenty twenty three over alleged war crime in Ukraine.
Speaker 1: It would be recalled that the Russian President Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: did not attend the twenty twenty five annual Brazil, Russia, India,
Speaker 1: China and South Africa Summit known as Briggs Summit in
Speaker 1: Brazil due to concerns over an International Criminal Court warrant
Speaker 1: for his arrest in connection with alleged war crimes committed
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. According to the Kremlin aid Yuri Yashikov, President
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin did not attend the summit due to certain
Speaker 1: difficulties in the context of the ICC requirement, adding in
Speaker 1: that context, the Brazilian government could not take a clear
Speaker 1: position that would allow our president to participate in this meeting. Instead,
Speaker 1: the Russian leader joined his Bricks colleagues via video link.
Speaker 1: Futen was declared a war crime suspect since the ICC
Speaker 1: named him in a March twenty twenty three arrest warrant
Speaker 1: over the mass deportation of Ukrainian children. Co contestants in
Speaker 1: the last concluded general elections in Nigeria and former governor
Speaker 1: of a Nambra State, Peter Obi, has faulted President Bola
Speaker 1: Ahmed tenubu trip to Brazil and also condemned the president
Speaker 1: frequent travel abroad at any slightest invitation and abandoned pressing
Speaker 1: issues of insecurity and other deplorable situations that make the
Speaker 1: nation bleeds. Specifically, Peter Obi said, the situation we find
Speaker 1: ourselves in is deeply worrisome. Our President, who has not
Speaker 1: found it worthy to visit any of our troubled states,
Speaker 1: takes joy in traveling to foreign countries at the slightest
Speaker 1: invitation or excuse, often departing several days even before the
Speaker 1: events he's invited to. The Presidency had, in a statement
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, said that President Bola Tanubu will depart Abuja
Speaker 1: on Thursday, August fourteenth for a two nation trip to
Speaker 1: Japan and Brazil. The President will stop over in Dubai,
Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates before proceeding to Japan. In Japan, President
Speaker 1: Tanubu will attend the ninth Tokyo International Conference on African
Speaker 1: Development TICAD nine in the city of Yokohama from August
Speaker 1: twentieth to twenty two. With the theme co Create Innovative
Speaker 1: Solutions with Africa. TICAD nine will focus on Africa's economic
Speaker 1: transformation and improvements in the business environment and institutions through
Speaker 1: private investment and innovation. It will also promote a resilient
Speaker 1: and sustainable African society for q human security, peace and stability.
Speaker 1: In addition to attending cleanery sessions on themes linked to
Speaker 1: the conference, the Nigerian President will hold by lateral meetings
Speaker 1: and meet the chief executive offices of some Japanese companies
Speaker 1: with investments in Nigeria. Initiated in nineteen ninety three by
Speaker 1: the Japanese government and co hosted by the United Nations UNDP,
Speaker 1: the African Union Commission, and the World Bank, TICAD is
Speaker 1: a triennial conference held alternately in Japan and Africa. The
Speaker 1: last one took place in August twenty twenty two in Tunisia.
Speaker 1: The forum foster's high level policy dialogue between African leaders
Speaker 1: and development partners. At the end of the TICAD nine,
Speaker 1: President Tanubu will leave for Brazilia, the capital of the
Speaker 1: Federated Republic of Brazil, on a two day state visit
Speaker 1: from Sunday, August twenty fourth to Monday August twenty fifth.
Speaker 1: This follows an invitation by the brazil President Luis Natio
Speaker 1: Lula da Silva. While in Brazil, President Tanubu will hold
Speaker 1: a bilateral meeting with his host and attender business forum
Speaker 1: with Brazilian investors. His delegation, comprising key ministers and senior officials,
Speaker 1: will explore opportunities to strengthen cooperation and sign agreements and
Speaker 1: memoranda of understanding maus with the Brazilian government. Bao on Anuga,
Speaker 1: special Advisor to the President on Information and Strategy, stated
Speaker 1: on August thirteenth, twenty twenty five, Peter Oby, the Labour
Speaker 1: Party presidential candidate in the last concluded general elections in
Speaker 1: the West Africa country, in a statement on Thursday, said, again,
Speaker 1: our president moves as the nation bleeds amid the deplorable
Speaker 1: state of our nation. In all ramifications, we have a
Speaker 1: virtually indifferent president who has continued to display insensitivity to
Speaker 1: our situation. How can anyone explain that a president who
Speaker 1: came from Brazil recently in mass, Federal Government of Nigeria
Speaker 1: under the leadership of President Bola Ahmed Tenubu has ordered
Speaker 1: the Commissioner of Police in charge of Lagos Airport to
Speaker 1: withdraw the one sided and obviously bias court case the
Speaker 1: Nigeria Police Force may have wrongly instituted against a Nibom
Speaker 1: Air passenger, comfort Emanson, who was seen in viral videos
Speaker 1: retaliating and defending herself physically after a group of Ibom
Speaker 1: Air personnel and Lagos Airport team had attacked her and
Speaker 1: provoked her to action. The FG position on the issue
Speaker 1: was made known by the Nigeria Minister of Aviation, Festus Kamo,
Speaker 1: in a press release the Minister signed and made available
Speaker 1: few minutes ago. Although Festus Kamo reversed his self and
Speaker 1: acknowledged that the issue was a case of confrontation between
Speaker 1: the twenty six years old passenger and the staff of
Speaker 1: Ibam Airlines, who in the new press release admitted that
Speaker 1: the staff of Ibom Air and the Lagos Airport Authority
Speaker 1: team acted wrongly, but the Minister did not state how
Speaker 1: the attack act passenger would be compensated, most especially when
Speaker 1: her chest sexual organs were seems to be deliberately exposed
Speaker 1: after a suspected Ibom Airline staff pulled off and tore
Speaker 1: the passenger shirt with obvious intention to expose the passenger's nakedness.
Speaker 1: The action of the federal government may ease the tension
Speaker 1: among millions of people who have accused the Nigeria Police
Speaker 1: Force obayding and avetting the Ibom Airline company to continue
Speaker 1: to attack and oppress the offended passenger, Comfort Bob, who
Speaker 1: is also identified as Comfort Emanson, by thus supporting the
Speaker 1: statement of Ibom Air management, who in their first press
Speaker 1: released made statement that seems to have some level of
Speaker 1: deliberate falsehood and raising up a dead issue to win
Speaker 1: undue public sentiments manipulate. The Nigeria Police forced to help
Speaker 1: them secured attention holding charge from the Legos State Magistrate
Speaker 1: caught to further oppress and intimidate the attacked passenger. Specifically,
Speaker 1: Ibom Air stated in her first press released that shortly
Speaker 1: after the plane landed at Lagos Airport, the passenger waited
Speaker 1: for every other passenger on board the plane to disembark
Speaker 1: and thereafter, without provocation, went to one of the plane hostesses,
Speaker 1: Juliana Edward. The Ibom air management described as purser stepped
Speaker 1: on her, forcibly tore off her wig, removed her glasses
Speaker 1: and threw it to the floor, and used her footwear
Speaker 1: to assault her. She slapped her several times, and when
Speaker 1: the other cabin crew member tried to intervene, she slapped
Speaker 1: her too. She then attempted to forcibly remove a fire
Speaker 1: extinguisher to use as a weapon, an act that could
Speaker 1: have damaged and grounded the aircraft. Soon after the Ibom
Speaker 1: Air management released the statement on Monday, her video surfaced
Speaker 1: on the Internet that probably invalidated the statement of the
Speaker 1: Ibom Air management and stood out as an acceptable evidence
Speaker 1: that the management of Ibomb error people who may be
Speaker 1: rightly described as pathological liars who probably believed in telling
Speaker 1: lies as a way of managing crisis and handling difficult
Speaker 1: customers relations. Has seen in the viral video that surfaced
Speaker 1: the Internet after the apparent falsehood of Ibomb Air management,
Speaker 1: the attack passenger was seen politely telling the air hostess
Speaker 1: Juliana Edward to leave the doorway so that she can
Speaker 1: disembark from the plane. The seenior aggressor in this matter,
Speaker 1: the air hostess Juliana Edward, refused to yield to the
Speaker 1: appeal of the passenger, and Ibom air management in their
Speaker 1: first press release, confirmed that the air hostess Juliana Edward,
Speaker 1: deliberately blocked the door. Nigeria Aviation Minister Festus Caamo says
Speaker 1: the Ministry has directed for the aviation staff who released
Speaker 1: the video footage containing the aspect of an Ibom Airlines
Speaker 1: passenger Comfort Emanson or Bob scene in an indecent appearance
Speaker 1: with her chest sexual organs exposed after the passenger shirt
Speaker 1: was torn by an Ibom Airline staff while security operatives
Speaker 1: were seen in the viral video dragging the aggrieved passenger
Speaker 1: out of the aircraft. Following an act of confrontation between
Speaker 1: the passenger and Ibom Airlines hostesses, which one of the
Speaker 1: hostesses blocked the right of way of the passenger and
Speaker 1: prevented the passenger from disembarking from the plane and after
Speaker 1: countless warning to the airline passenger to leave the road,
Speaker 1: the passenger went physical with the hostess by allegedly slapping
Speaker 1: her on the face, which the confrontation with the hostess
Speaker 1: apparently led to the alleged destruction of the plane divider cotton,
Speaker 1: which Hibom Airlines valued at two thousand, five hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: as stated in count five of the five count charges
Speaker 1: the police filed against the passenger at a Keja magistrate
Speaker 1: caught in Lagos State. The Aviation Minister Festus Kmo, who
Speaker 1: described the behavior of the passenger as unruly, said, although
Speaker 1: the airline staff is right to video record the event
Speaker 1: of the passenger's behavior for the purpose of legal action,
Speaker 1: but it is totally unacceptable for the staff to release
Speaker 1: part of the video that exposed the passenger's nakedness, especially
Speaker 1: her breasts. Details of the Minister's statement reads for datum below.
Speaker 1: Enough is Enough reading the Riot Act on Aviation Safety
Speaker 1: and Security. In reference to the case of unruly Comfort
Speaker 1: Bob on Ibom Airline and related incidents. Earlier today, we
Speaker 1: again woke up to viral videos of a female passenger
Speaker 1: on Ibom Airline, now identified as Comfort Emanson or Comfort Bob,
Speaker 1: who went berserk and physically assaulted both the flight crew
Speaker 1: and the ground staff. The incident took place yesterday, August tenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, on Ibom Airline flight number Q one
Speaker 1: hundred fifty three from Uyo to Legos at about fourteen
Speaker 1: fifty four hours. Ibom Airline has since issued a statement
Speaker 1: to provide some context to the effect that the whole
Speaker 1: unfortunate incident arose because of the refusal of the passenger
Speaker 1: to switch off her phone during takeoff as required by
Speaker 1: extant international civil aviation regulations. Consequently, in the last few hours,
Speaker 1: I have been speaking with the Commissioner of Police of
Speaker 1: the Airport Police Command, the DG of the NC Double
Speaker 1: A and his team, the end of f A A
Speaker 1: N and her team, the COO of Hbom Air and
Speaker 1: his team about the incident. Apart from the indefinite flight
Speaker 1: ban imposed on the said unruly passenger, both local and
Speaker 1: international by the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority n C Double A,
Speaker 1: the police has promptly arraigned her this morning at the
Speaker 1: Akejah Magistrates Caught for criminal offenses and remanded her Kirikiri
Speaker 1: Prisons as she could not provide adequate sureties in court.
Speaker 1: I have attached the charge sheet and remand order for clarity.
Speaker 1: We also note the scuffle that took place between the
Speaker 1: unruly passenger and ground personnel before she was eventually subdued.
Speaker 1: This was because of her uncooperative attitude Whilst we support
Speaker 1: the filming of her recalcitrant behavior as evidence to prosecute her,
Speaker 1: what is deplorable is to release such evidence containing indecent
Speaker 1: exposure to the public to ridicule her. That is totally
Speaker 1: unacceptable to us. A careful study of the viral video
Speaker 1: involving the IBOM Airline personnel, legos, airport security operatives and
Speaker 1: an aggrieved passenger comfort E Manson on board the airline
Speaker 1: plane on Sunday indicated that while the enraged passenger was
Speaker 1: being dragged off the plane by three men who held
Speaker 1: her two hands and legs, suspending her a little bit
Speaker 1: on the air, a lady putting on Ibomb air corporate clothes,
Speaker 1: who was behind the camera lens, could be seen in
Speaker 1: the video to have approached the passenger at the door
Speaker 1: point of the plane while the passenger was about to
Speaker 1: be taking out, apparently dipped her hand towards the waist
Speaker 1: part of the passenger, untucked the passenger shirt from the trousers,
Speaker 1: grabbed and pulled the passenger's shirt towards her head, and
Speaker 1: in the process the passenger shirt got tore and the
Speaker 1: passenger's chest, sexual organs or private parts were completely exposed.
Speaker 1: The action of the Ibom Airline staff appeared to be deliberate,
Speaker 1: as the airline female staff was not part of those
Speaker 1: dragging the passenger off the aircraft and ar after the
Speaker 1: female passenger's body was exposed. The Ibom Airlines female staff
Speaker 1: never joined or assisted the security operatives to drag the
Speaker 1: passenger off the plane. This indicated that the motive of
Speaker 1: the female's staff of Ibom Airline was solely to remove
Speaker 1: the passenger shirt and expose the aggrieved airline passenger to ridicule.
Speaker 1: The video of the passenger's partial nakedness, especially her two
Speaker 1: breasts completely exposed due to the apparent action of a
Speaker 1: yet to be arrested and prosecuted female staff of Ibom
Speaker 1: Airlines has since gone viral, with some pornographic channels already
Speaker 1: updating their channels with the partial nakedness of the Ibom
Speaker 1: Airlines passenger. According to Punch newspaper, Comfort Emanson, the passenger
Speaker 1: accused of assaulting airline officials aboard an Ibom air flight
Speaker 1: from Muyo to Lagos, has been charged in court and
Speaker 1: remanded in Kirrikiri Correctional Center in Lagos. Tundai machued Special
Speaker 1: Adviser on Media and Communications to the Minister of Aviation
Speaker 1: and Aerospace Development, Festus kmo Sam confirmed the development in
Speaker 1: a post on his official ex handle on Monday. The
Speaker 1: more reason the flying public should be more careful. The
Speaker 1: unruly passenger on the Yuyo Lagos bound Ibombair Miscomfort Emanson,
Speaker 1: has been charged to court and she's now cooling off
Speaker 1: in Kirrikiri, Michoud wrote. Ibom Are in a press statement
Speaker 1: on Monday, said that Ibomhre confirms that on Sunday, August tenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, an incident occurred on board our Uyo
Speaker 1: Lagos flight involving a passenger, Comfort Emanson, whose conduct posed
Speaker 1: a serious threat to the safety of our crew, passengers
Speaker 1: and aircraft. Shortly before takeoff from Muyo, Emanson was instructed,
Speaker 1: in line with standard aviation safety procedures, to switch off
Speaker 1: her mobile phone. She bluntly refused to comply until the
Speaker 1: pilot in command made an announcement, after which a fellow
Speaker 1: passenger seated beside her took the phone and switched it off.
Speaker 1: This action prompted a verbal tirade from Emanson. The situation
Speaker 1: was eventually calmed and the flight departed as scheduled. Upon
Speaker 1: arrival in Lagos, Emanson waited for all other passengers to
Speaker 1: disembark and then proceeded to confront the purser who had
Speaker 1: earlier instructed her. She walked up to the unsuspecting purser,
Speaker 1: stepped on her forcibly, tore off her wig, removed her
Speaker 1: glasses and threw it to the floor, and used her
Speaker 1: footwear to assault her. Management of National Youth Service Corps,
Speaker 1: under the leadership of Brigadier General Holukunlenfew has given reasons
Speaker 1: why a serving Nigeria Youth Corps member, hier Rita Aguamaye
Speaker 1: was denied NYSC discharge certificate that could have enabled her
Speaker 1: exit the one year mandatory program after she completed the
Speaker 1: one year paramilitary service to her nation as a new graduate.
Speaker 1: And according to a statement posted and made available by
Speaker 1: NYSC on Sunday with no name of the authority responsible
Speaker 1: for the press statement written or mentioned in the statement,
Speaker 1: the NYSC said Corps member Returiguamei's discharge certificate was withheld
Speaker 1: and her service year extended by two months following her
Speaker 1: alleged absence or failure to attend the April twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five NYSC biometrics clearance at Etiosa Local Government Area Secretariat,
Speaker 1: and the month stated by NYSC was barely few days
Speaker 1: after the Corps member had cried out loud in the
Speaker 1: month of March twenty twenty five over the apparent increasing
Speaker 1: high rates of hunger as a result of rising costs
Speaker 1: of living in Nigeria and as such, she described the
Speaker 1: President Bola armed Tanubu as a terrible president. In a
Speaker 1: swift reaction to the reason given by NYSC, Returiguamea's lawyer
Speaker 1: barrister and nibihe f Young, while answering questions from Channel's
Speaker 1: television program presenters on Monday morning, said the statement issued
Speaker 1: by the management of the National Youth Service Corps NYSC
Speaker 1: on its decision to extend the service period and withhold
Speaker 1: the certificate of National Service of Corps member Hashier Rita
Speaker 1: Aguamaye alias Raye does not represent the truth of the matter,
Speaker 1: saying on April seventh, twenty twenty five, Rita was physically
Speaker 1: present at the Local Government Secretariat for the head count
Speaker 1: and clearance of the NYSC official at the local government
Speaker 1: level deliberately refused to attend to her even after six
Speaker 1: hours waiting, during which she was asked to go back
Speaker 1: and queued up on the line repeatedly. The NYSC official
Speaker 1: still refused to attend to her, and thereafter, on April eleventh,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, the core member went to meet the
Speaker 1: NYSC official and begged her to allow her perform her
Speaker 1: April twenty twenty five biometrics clearance. The NYSC female official
Speaker 1: refused and asked the corps member to leave. This, Amnesty
Speaker 1: International said the National Youth Service Corps NYSC ustracind its decision,
Speaker 1: the Amnesty International described as arbitrary and outrageous, saying NYSC
Speaker 1: allegedly used bureaucratic tricks to extend the core member national
Speaker 1: service year over the government's unacceptable intolerance of dissenting voices,
Speaker 1: with former Nigeria Vice President Atiku Abubaka describing the NYSC
Speaker 1: action as impunity and as such cautioned the government against
Speaker 1: subjecting everything to politics. And on Monday morning, the former
Speaker 1: governor of an Ambra State, Peter Hobe, issued a statement
Speaker 1: and said, in our country today, hunger and poverty are
Speaker 1: not just distant statistics. They are the harsh reality that
Speaker 1: millions of our people face daily Recently, the United Nations
Speaker 1: stated that about thirty four million Nigerians will face acute
Speaker 1: food insecurity and about sixty three percent of our population,
Speaker 1: which is about one hundred and thirty three million people
Speaker 1: now live in multi dimensional poverty inflation. Even with the
Speaker 1: suppressed statistic, prosers walk on Nevil bringin You brings in
Speaker 1: a more digital ware