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CDS half marathon championship: NSCDC emerges overall winner

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6 years ago

June 15, 2019

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corp, NSCDC has emerged winners of this year’s edition of the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS half marathon championship which took place in Abuja on Saturday.

NSCDC did actually show their strength in Nigeria sports as their runners emerged top in both the men and women categories.

National women marathon champion, Debora Pam representing NSCDC returned first in the women category, carting away the top price, while Akusho Lydia of the Federal Fire Service finished second. Nancy Mathew of the Nigeria Immigration came third.

The NSCDC did actually showed their prowess in Nigeria sports as they swept the men Category, returning in the first and second positions. Though, the National Champion and also the defending champion, Emmanuel Gyan was beaten to the second position this time around by his colleague, Gideon Goyet. With that, Goyet became the proud winner of a brand new car.

The third place winner was however riddled with controversy, as the wrong person from the Nigeria Army was supposedly announced as the bronze medal winner which then prompted the officials of the Nigeria Army to vehemently launch a protest.

In the veteran category, Ayuba Dahiru from the Nigeria Army was the proud winner of another brand new car as he finished first ahead of Clifford Omoghibora from the Nigeria Police who returned second. The third position went to Dansabe Shehu of the Nigeria Road safety

Much as the championship went so well in the organizational ability, it was almost marred with avoidable controversies. The Nigeria Army refused to come out to receive their medal for the group event arguing that they came first ahead of the NSCDC personnel who were announced winners.

It took the intervention of their top officials to force them to march to the podium to receive their medals. Several other officials from other security outfits also complained bitterly about alterations in the results sheets, though to whose advantage

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CSO Salutes Trump

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2 weeks ago

January 20, 2025

The Gleamer

A Civil Society Organization (CSO) under the aegis of Initiative for Leadership Development and Change (ILDC) has congratulated President Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States of America.

Chief Ugochukwu Nnam, President of the CSO said this in an interview with the Newsmen in Abuja on Monday.

He expressed optimism over improvement on not just American economy but global economy with the inauguration of Trump.

“This is a man with greater vision of making environment around him great.

“In less than few hours of his inauguration, TikTok is back into existence, this shows how he is going to revive the world economy,” he said.

The ILDC boss who reiterated his confidence in Trump’s Presidency, described him as a man of clues and ideas to drive a stable America and the world at large.

He lauded Trump’s collaboration with global entrepreneurs like Elon Musk in an effort to revitalize America’s economy.

According to him, men and women of ideas flock together, they work together for better society and this is what Trump is doing.

Recall that Donald Trump became the 47th President of the U.S by polling 312 electoral votes Vice President Kamala Harris’ 226 votes in Nov, 2024.

Following the oath of office, Trump will address the nation before he is expected to parade across town to the White House and attend three inaugural balls in the evening

About 200,000 supporters are expected to visit the city to mark the presidential transfer of power.

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