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The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu mother is dead.

Mrs Grace Akeredolu the governors mother died this morning in her sleep. She was aged 90 years.

The death was confirmed in a statement by Mr Richard Olatunde, the Chief Press Secretary to the governor, on Thursday in Akure.

“She died peacefully in her sleep early this morning. Mama was 90 years.

“She is survived by her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and other family members.

“Though saddened and by the departure of Maami, the one Abiyamo we knew, we are consoled with the knowledge that, even as she transits to eternity, she will be guided by the strong hands of the angels of the light in which she dwelt during her eventful and fruitful sojourn on the terrestrial plane,” he added.

“Further announcements will be made by the family in due course,” the statement read.

Frequent Flood has ravaged more than 200 households in Makurdi, Benue State.

Executive Secretary, Benue State Emergency Management Agency, Dr Emmanuel Shior, made the disclosure in Makurdi on Wednesday at the monthly distribution of relief materials to Internally Displaced Persons.

He listed affected parts of the Benue capital as Naka Road, Achusa Kucha Utebe, Gyado Villa, Judge’s Quarters Extension and parts of Nyiman among others.

Shior noted that the flood was not this terrible in the state in the past.

He assured that the state’s Committee on Floods had approved the expansion of selected camps in Makurdi, Guma and Logo to accommodate flood victims.

He added that recent attacks on some communities in the state had resulted in the displacement of more than 400,000 people.

He said the state government was catering to the victims and to refugees from Cameroon staying in Kwande Local Government Area of the state.

He appealed to the Federal Government to assist as the burden was becoming cumbersome for the state government.

Shior said assailants killed and maimed and also destroyed infrastructures such as markets, churches, and schools in communities attacked.

By Kenny Folarin, Abuja

The Presidential Candidate, African Action Congress, Omoyele Sowore has said Nigeria being among the Commonwealth nations without visa free entry to other Commonwealth nations is unfounded and useless.

Sowore responding to questions on how to change the narrative of the Nigerian Passport in a monitored interview by LEADING REPORTERS with Classic FM on Monday stated that the Nigerian Passport does not have to change but only have to change the nation to earn respect.

“When the queen died I made a tweet which was controversial to lots of people that nobody should mourn the queen”

“It is not our business to do that, we should be thinking about how to dissolve the Commonwealth of Nations which has 156 countries of which as a Nigerian you cannot travel without a visa.”

“We are the only common people in the Commonwealth, alumni of formerly colonized countries so we are still a subject of the queen.”

“Dissolve the Commonwealth what is it doing for us and if we are not dissolving it and we are going to be part of it, let every nations in the Commonwealth be visa free to Nigerians so that we can go to the Commonwealth and know that it is common”.

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Sowore added that these are foreign policies that Nigerians should push for to be respected among committee of nations rather than being humiliated.

“People must have their dignity back so that they can go anywhere they want without being humiliated because the humiliation for Nigerian is just too much even in places that we don’t deserve it”.

Sowore however identified education, security and energy as area of focus if elected as President in 2023 noted that politicians are underfunding the education sector in order to have control over the citizens and have total power over them.

Explaining, he said “there is a policy of mass miseducation over the years and the people who are miseducating Nigerians through inadequate funding know that they wanted to achieve a citizenry that is easy to manipulate and control”.

“When people are educated they are difficult to mismanage and control so the military started by making sure that education was not adequately funded what is the result today?, 20 million children according to UNICEF are out of school, how do we get them back into the classroom?

“There has to be a policy of mass education and one of the things that I have adopted is virtual education, I want to create virtual classrooms that can be found everywhere such that where schools are not possible, people can learn in a football viewing centre and another thing is that we should also jettison the idea of basic education, it is not going to work for us, the sector should be massively funded too”. He added.