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00:00:48Thanks for joining us on TVC news, these are, I am
00:00:50Victoria iA. After months in the den of terrorists, the
00:00:54victims
00:00:55of the February 3rd abduction in Wuro community of Kayama Local Government
00:00:59Area of Quaras. date finally back in quara state.
00:01:0246 survivors are currently receiving medical attention with
00:01:06of harrowing accounts emerging
00:01:08of the conditions they endured in captivity. Ibrahim Alege has
00:01:12details. It was indeed moment of relief
00:01:15and emotion in ilor as the war abducties rescued
00:01:19after months in captivity were formally received and ended
00:01:23over to the Quara state
00:01:25of government. Their ordeal began on the 3rd of February when terrorists
00:01:29invaded war. and communities in kayama local government area of Quara
00:01:33state killing scores and abducting 176
00:01:36residents leaving the communities
00:01:39of traumatized. the victims were taken deep into
00:01:42forest where they spent months under ash conditions
00:01:46with uncertainty over their faith. their eventual rescue by
00:01:50security forces has now brought an end to the prolonged
00:01:55of captivity. at the reception, one
00:01:57of the freeed victims amera Salu gave are chilling
00:02:00account of what happened in the camp, she
00:02:04of discussed that she took delivery of 10 pregnant women while in
00:02:07captivity, but less than half
00:02:09of the babies survived. Amira
00:02:12of also revealed that 13 children died in the camp, while
00:02:16some young women were
00:02:18of married off and some young men eventually joined the
00:02:21terrorists. Sometimes they will give
00:02:23of up food, sometimes they will not give us, that's
00:02:26of how we used to sleep with our children. I
00:02:28of have
00:02:29like 10 woman. for delivering without glove, i use my
00:02:32hand to help them, but at last they
00:02:36letter
00:02:37of know they want to keep me that as to stay with them, but i said
00:02:41no, i want to come back home.
00:02:44of all the pregnant woman that you saw all
00:02:46of of them, the i was pregnant before we kidnapped, they
00:02:50are not doing
00:02:54of hawaasaliu, one
00:02:55of the wives
00:02:55of the world village aid,
00:02:57of corroborated amira's account, recountant. the difficult
00:03:00conditions they endured, those people that did here
00:03:04of is starting of number, but they were children, they
00:03:08were children, then they born 11 children
00:03:12there, six have die,
00:03:14of we bring five at home, pregnant woman remain two
00:03:18when they never born,
00:03:20we are they are here now, we don't know we be h, we be home
00:03:24again, we are very very thank god, receiving
00:03:28of them. Zac commanded President Bolatinobu
00:03:32and the security agencies for the
00:03:35of successful rescue
00:03:36a operation. The governor said the save return
00:03:38of the victims is major relieve, assuring them
00:03:41of the states continued support as they recover from the
00:03:45trauma. I have since directed that the
00:03:49appropriate medical attention be extended to anyone,
00:03:52everyone to ensure the world being. Priority this
00:03:56time, our government had
00:03:58of extended various forms of support. the world community to
00:04:02aid their building effort, on behalf
00:04:04of the people and government of state, i extend a
00:04:07of profound appreciation to
00:04:10of president, the commander and chief
00:04:13of the Nigerian Armed forces. the military authorities also
00:04:16assured victims and their families of continued commitment to the protection
00:04:20of lives and communities at teaching hospital in Loren, we have
00:04:2446 kitchen hospital in Loring, where 46
00:04:27of survivors are currently receiving medical attention. For the
00:04:31survivors, freedom
00:04:32of came when they had almost given up hope of ever returning
00:04:36home.
00:04:37of Their return marks the beginning of new chapter after months of
00:04:40fear, anger, uncertainty and
00:04:43loss. Ibrahim Aleger, TBC News,
00:04:47in Lori. Operatives
00:04:50of the Department of State Services have arrested three more persons
00:04:54of suspected to be members
00:04:55of the kidnapping ring that abducted the dean of agriculture. National State University.
00:05:00university professor Samuel. the university don was rescued
00:05:04by DSS operatives two days after some gun men kidnapped him in the
00:05:07we hours of Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at Mail
00:05:11Uku. a border community between lafia and nasaraigon local government
00:05:15areas, two suspects including lady were arrested by the
00:05:19DSS at the time. security source disclosed that
00:05:23DSS operatives arrested three other members the kidnapping gang
00:05:27on Friday night a local brotel on the
00:05:30Mararaban Akunza Lafia makodi
00:05:32highway.
00:05:35now to party politics, it's
00:05:39less than two weeks before the official kick off. of
00:05:42campaigns for the 2027 general election in Nigeria,
00:05:46but Professor Christopher
00:05:48Himumole acord party has announced his withdrawal from the
00:05:52presidential presidential race in support of President
00:05:55Bolatinoubu. Senior correspondent
00:05:58Solomon reports a presidential
00:06:02ambition which ended even before the race
00:06:05started, to officially announce my
00:06:08stepping down from the raise professor.
00:06:13the accord party announcing his withdraw from the 2027
00:06:17elections in support the re-election of president
00:06:21for the second time to support his excellency
00:06:25Mr. President, the President of Federal Republic of
00:06:27Nigeria,
00:06:30president, professor states the
00:06:33reasons for giving up his ambition, the unity
00:06:36stability and continued progress
00:06:40of Nigeria must take
00:06:43precedence over my personal political
00:06:47ambition, his name and party are not even among the 19
00:06:50listed by the independent national electoral commission inec for the
00:06:542027 presidential election. we did not even submit our
00:06:58nomination to ineg, we did our primaries,
00:07:02emerged as the president candidate. what we are
00:07:06supposed to do is now to submit, which we withdrew. this
00:07:10list is made up of three women and six. men, like
00:07:132023, incumbent bolatinu the All
00:07:17Progressives Congress, APC is the front runner among three main
00:07:21contenders as he se election for second consecutive term
00:07:25in office. President Tinobu's main challenges are former Vice
00:07:28President, Artiku Abubakar the African Democratic Congress,
00:07:32ADC, and the former governor of Anamber State, Peter Obi, the
00:07:36Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, other candidates include
00:07:40Adekunle Omaaje the Action Alliance.
00:07:45the African Action Congress (AAC) and Abbas Bin
00:07:49Aliu the Action Democratic Party, ADP, also in
00:07:53the contest our current governor of Oyal state shende
00:07:57the allied People's movement, APM, Yusuf the
00:08:00Action Peoples Party, APP, and Samuel meme
00:08:04the Democratic Liberty Alliance, DLA, making up the
00:08:08numbers are Sunday, the Labor Party, LP,
00:08:11Elizabeth. the National Democratic Party,
00:08:14NDP, and Sandy Honor the People's Democratic Party,
00:08:18PDP, as well as the former governor of Cross River State,
00:08:22Donald Duke of People's Redemption Party,
00:08:24PRP, the Social Democratic Party,
00:08:28SDP and Daniel Lunyaon
00:08:31of Zenit Labor Party, ZLP. They have from the 19th of August
00:08:35this year to the 14th of January 2027, to campaign and
00:08:39convince Nigerians to vote for them. Salomon.
00:08:43TVC News in other news, the federal
00:08:46government says its borrowing is being channeled into critical
00:08:50infrastructure that will stimulate economic activities and connect
00:08:54previously und desserved communities. This was the message as the
00:08:58presidential media team and renewed hope ambassadors
00:09:01inspected federal and state projects in binwe
00:09:04state. The state government says the projects are also
00:09:08strengthening support for President Bolatinobu ahead the 2027
00:09:11January. Across bany
00:09:15state, new roads, bridges and interchanges are taking
00:09:19shape, part the federal and state government efforts to improve
00:09:22connectivity and open up communities for economic
00:09:26activities. Presidential media team and the renewed hope
00:09:29ambassadors are here to access the progress.
00:09:33We have been building fly overs, we have been building roads,
00:09:37we have also been building
00:09:40infrastructure and building and having programs that impact
00:09:44directly on the lives the people, as much as we are developing
00:09:48infrastructure, we are conscious the fact that we need to do
00:09:51infrastructure, we need to do programs and do projects that
00:09:54impact directly on the people, we have major
00:09:58rural roads which we are constructing that we enable
00:10:02our farmers to move food produce from the rural areas into the
00:10:06market, we have the
00:10:08uh road which is under construction.
00:10:25on the urban centers, we are also engaging in life
00:10:28transforming projects and programs that will lift the
00:10:32lives uh standard the people and enhance their
00:10:35wellbeing. one major stop is the 1.75
00:10:39km bururuku bridge across the river benway. the federal
00:10:43government says the project will provide safer movement for surrounding
00:10:47agrarian communities, improve access to markets and
00:10:51strengthen links with neighboring tarapa and Adam state.
00:10:55for the presidency, it is also evidence of where borrowed
00:10:59funds are going, well this one is federal
00:11:02project and this bridge in particular is the
00:11:06fifth bridge that the federal government is
00:11:08building in state
00:11:11and for me, i think as nigerians you see
00:11:15that the government has been accused of so many things of
00:11:19b money of doing that, but we can see where the money is
00:11:23going to to develop. structure to
00:11:26link people who have been forgotten before to make sure that at least
00:11:30commerce flows freely uh farmers can
00:11:34get their products straight to the market and so on, they can
00:11:37shorten the travel time between one community and the
00:11:41other between the rural areas and the capital.
00:11:45the team also intercepted the rookum overhead bridge and the makud
00:11:49bogoko road, part the strategic corridor connecting north central
00:11:53Nigeria to the southeast. State projects,
00:11:56including major interchanges and investments in agriculture and
00:12:00industry were also showcased. a
00:12:04pronouncement that was done by the governor of benway state, his
00:12:07excellency father earlier, he made a pronouncement that b
00:12:11we deliver 1 million votes to Mr. President, I think my
00:12:15responsibility as deputy governor is to make sure
00:12:18that I mobilize the executive council and the people of B
00:12:22state in their large numbers to actualize that promise that has been
00:12:26made by the governor, but infrastructure is not
00:12:30the only conversation here, the b state government says the
00:12:33project and other interventions by the table administration
00:12:37are strengthening public support as it targets 1 million vote
00:12:41for the president in 2027. officials
00:12:45overseeing the federal project say funding remains on
00:12:48track uh we have completed all the
00:12:51substructures that is the pes the pipe cars
00:12:55have been completed you can see at the upstream and the
00:12:59piers are all be erected and the
00:13:03precast beams are in the yard we are about to launch
00:13:06them it's just because the like i say at the
00:13:11because water rooku round about is the rain now the level is very
00:13:15high we can't we couldn't continue with some the major work in the
00:13:19middle the river no there's no funding problem uh
00:13:23the project is under the renew intervention
00:13:27fund, so there is no funding problem. the nationwide inspection is
00:13:30designed to access and showcase project on the renewed hope
00:13:34agenda. here in ben state, the government believes the infrastructure
00:13:38would deliver more than improved connectivity and economic
00:13:41opportunities. it is also counting on the project
00:13:45to deliver political dividends in
00:13:472027.
00:13:52you're watching tvc news. the rest the news continues after. break, stay with
00:13:55us.
00:14:04Osho votes again. Saturday, August 15,
00:14:082026, more than 2.3 million
00:14:11voters. 30 local government areas.
00:14:143,763 polen
00:14:18units, 14 parties, one seat.
00:14:21Incumbant ademola ade, APC's baller.
00:14:29From Friday August 14 TVC News will open a show
00:14:33vote studio from 6 pm and on election day
00:14:36Saturday August 15 studio opens at 7
00:14:40a.m. minute by minute updates from our team of reporter live
00:14:44studio expert analysis live interviews with inec
00:14:47officials, security chiefs, election observers and
00:14:51the voters. Stay with TVC news. TVs news.
00:14:55first with breaking
00:14:56news.
00:15:04Thanks for staying with us. Aviation agencies are demanding bigger
00:15:08slices, the billions of dira from Nigers 5% ticket
00:15:12sales charge. At a public hearing on two proposed laws,
00:15:16agencies in the sector row over who collects the largest chunk the
00:15:20revenue. National Assembly correspondent Joke Adisa
00:15:23reports. The House of Representatives host agencies
00:15:27and experts in the sector to a public hearing on two critical
00:15:31bills designed to better improve aviation business in the
00:15:35country. The Parliament the amendments aim
00:15:39to strengthen transparency and align Nigeria's laws
00:15:43with global best practices, introducing
00:15:45transparent, automated remittance
00:15:49of statutory 5% passenger cargo service
00:15:52charges, improving how revenues are shared among key
00:15:56aviation institutions and enhancing the
00:16:00capacity these agencies to effectively manage
00:16:04and seguard our airspace are here to consider to: key
00:16:07bills which are aimed at strengthening the
00:16:11financial and institutional framework the aviation
00:16:14industry with direct implication for safety,
00:16:17transparency and services delivery. At the technical
00:16:21session, agencies clutched over funding from the 5% ticket
00:16:25charge, the Nigerian airspace management agency
00:16:28Nama wants his share raised from 22% to
00:16:3256%. It says agent navigation equipment and
00:16:35rising costs demand. more money
00:16:38repeating seven different
00:16:42correspondents up to the very last one
00:16:46which was 20th of July
00:16:49inviting the minister to
00:16:52appear before the committee, but as the
00:16:56case may be and as we can all see, the minister
00:17:00is not here and no representative
00:17:04or correspondent was sent to the committee. on
00:17:08this matter: for its part, the African Aviation and Aerospace
00:17:12University, AAU, Abuja, seeks a minimum of
00:17:1610% the fund to train skilled workers for
00:17:19NCAA, fan, Nimet and NSIB.
00:17:23African Aviation and aerospace University respectfully pressed that the
00:17:27national assembly recognized aAO as a
00:17:31statutory beneficiary the 5% tikil charge
00:17:35while amending the civil aviation act. to
00:17:38expressively to to expressly include AU in the revenue
00:17:42sharing formula. The future of Nigerian aviation
00:17:45industry will take a new shape from the debates ongoing
00:17:49today. One the bills seks to amend the civil aviation
00:17:53act to provide for the automated remittance of funds according
00:17:57to aviation agencies. It also aims to revise the revenue
00:18:00sharing formula and to reflect the renaming the accident
00:18:04investigation bureau as the Nigerian sa
00:18:08Investigation Bureau, the other siks to amend the Nama
00:18:11Establishment Act to revise the percentage of statutory
00:18:14charges according to the agency. The committee promised to
00:18:18review all submissions before recommending changes to the revenue
00:18:21sharing formula and automated remittance of aviation
00:18:25funds. Jsa. TBC news
00:18:29Abuja. Another news, for many
00:18:32women in conflict affected communities across Porno state,
00:18:36the daily search. for firewood has often come with serious
00:18:40risks. now humanitarian project is changing that
00:18:43narrative by the introduction of solar part cooking
00:18:46systems that improve safety, protect the environment and
00:18:50enhance the wellbeing of vulnerable families. senor reporter Jesse
00:18:54tefida has more details. for
00:18:57years, cooking meant long journeys into the bush in such a
00:19:01firewood, journeys that expose women and girls to
00:19:04insecurity while smoke filled kitchen. post
00:19:08serious health risks to families. Today,
00:19:12many these families are embracing cleaner and safer
00:19:15alternative. The just transition to solar electric cooking
00:19:19project known as a cooker is providing vulnerable
00:19:22household with solar powered electric cooking systems,
00:19:26reducing dependence on firewood and chacole while promoting clean
00:19:29energy implemented by the grassroot
00:19:33initiative for strengthening community resilience chisco in
00:19:36partnership. with Mission East, the project is helping women spend
00:19:40less time searching for fuel, improving household health
00:19:44and contributing to environmental protection. this initiative is
00:19:48one the uh concern that we have identified
00:19:52during our engagement with the community. right
00:19:56from the inception of gisco around 2016 we are into
00:19:59protection monitoring, so protection is about to
00:20:02identify the concern the idefis. these machines
00:20:06work around um 800 to
00:20:0990000 if you are going to buy uh as
00:20:13individual, so this is kind of support coming from the
00:20:17mission east uh funding and then uh
00:20:20supported by line climate. the project has
00:20:24so far deployed 268 solar electric cooking
00:20:28systems across Mungunu, maydugory and Jerry with
00:20:32humanitarian partners planning to reach even more vulnerable
00:20:35household. this is ' good one and uh is
00:20:39going to go a long way in salvaging our environment from
00:20:43total degradation, why? because this is just
00:20:47tape in mitigating global warming. desertification
00:20:51under climate change. Beyond providing clean cooking
00:20:54solutions, the initiative is helping reduce protection risk for women and
00:20:58girls, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and supporting climate
00:21:02resilience in communities recovering from conflicts. For these
00:21:06families, this is more than a quicking device. It is
00:21:10safer way of life, one to protect women, improves
00:21:14health, preserves the environment and offers renewed hope
00:21:18for communities rebuilding. after years of
00:21:21conflict. Jesse Tafida, TBC News, may
00:21:24duugari. The shoreline Developers
00:21:28Association of Ligos State has been inaugurated to promote best
00:21:32practices, urban planning and sustainable development across the
00:21:35state. At the inauguration event, the SDL
00:21:39president Lion Motola described Legos's shorline as an
00:21:42unlocked one trillion dollar asset with immense potential
00:21:46to transform the state into eco-friendly tourist destination.
00:21:50He called for a 50-year master plan, warning that without proper
00:21:54engineering, communities will continue to face flooding and
00:21:58environmental degradation. He also du comparisons with South
00:22:02Africa and Dubai challenging Nigeria to herness its shoreline
00:22:05potential for world class infrastructure and economic
00:22:09opportunities. Try as
00:22:13much as possible to make the
00:22:16the the part of Legos that is called the Highland.
00:22:21real highland, luxurious
00:22:24lifestyle, magnificent buildings and
00:22:27advocates for shoreline development and shoreline
00:22:31transformation, whereby
00:22:35tourism echo-friendly
00:22:38and lovely
00:22:41living can showcase and
00:22:44compete with places like Monaco, Dubai
00:22:48and other places. in
00:22:50Europe. Women have
00:22:54been advised to thrive beyond every situation they come across.
00:22:58This advice was given at the Arabin conference for women with the
00:23:02theme, the fulfilled woman, thriving and building lasting
00:23:05legacies. Speakers at the event happed on the need for women to
00:23:09go beyond existing to being persons of influence in their chosen
00:23:12field. I realized that at
00:23:16some points, whatever we're doing, we're looking for self.
00:23:20actualization, we're looking for fulfillment, and sometimes when you don't have it, is the
00:23:24reason why you are bnt out, you are tired, you're
00:23:27frustrated or mother journey can actually be very, very
00:23:30don, but if you understand what fulfillment means
00:23:34to you and you begin to live from that point onwards, it's
00:23:38easier for you to thrive, it's easier for you to celebrate yourself and be
00:23:42the best that you can be any given point in time or through any season
00:23:46that you're going through, this is a wake up call for women, that's what i think it is
00:23:50'we have stalled too much, we have slept for
00:23:53too long, and this is a wake-up call for women in terms of execution, in terms
00:23:57of just been in the center of God's
00:23:59will. Federal government has reaffirmed
00:24:03its support for the African International documentary Festival
00:24:07Foundation, as the organization maxs five years of documenting and
00:24:11promoting Nigeria's cultural and natural heritage, the anniversary
00:24:14celebration also featured the unveiling of heritage in motion
00:24:182026 and Lens on Africa initiative aimed at
00:24:22expanding heritage documentation, youth empowerment and
00:24:25cultural diplomacy across the continent. Speaking at the
00:24:29event in Abuja, the minister of art, culture, tourism and the
00:24:33creative economy described culture and tourism as key drivers of
00:24:37economic diversification under the renewed hope
00:24:39agenda.
00:24:47And that's it on TBC News these. I am Victoria
00:24:51Uni. Thanks for
00:24:52watching.
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00:27:26every day across forests, highways, towns and
00:27:29villages, brave men and women stand watch. so that Nigeria can
00:27:33sleep, they leave their families behind, confront danger head
00:27:37on and make sacrifices many of us will never see, yet the
00:27:41enemies of our nation continue their assault, they target our
00:27:45children, they murder innocent citizens, they force families
00:27:49from their homes, they turn thriving communities into places
00:27:53of fear and uncertainty, their goal is simple,
00:27:57to break our spirit, divide our people and steal the
00:28:01future of our nation. but Nigeria is stronger than
00:28:04terror. As we demand greater accountability, stronger security
00:28:08measures and more effective action from those entrusted with our safety,
00:28:12we must also play our part. Support our security
00:28:16forces, salute their gallantry, stand with those
00:28:19stand for us. If you see something, say
00:28:23something. Let us be our brotherers keeper. We must
00:28:27never surrender to fear, despair or hopelessness.
00:28:31This is not the time for do. vision, not by tribe, not
00:28:34by religion, not by region, not by
00:28:38political party, because terror recognizes no
00:28:42ethnicity, no faith and no ideology, its
00:28:45enemy is all of us, and together united as one
00:28:49people, we can defeat it for our children, for our
00:28:53communities, for our future, for
00:28:56Nigeria, join the movement, stand for our
00:29:00country, stand for one another,
00:29:04#unite against
00:29:05terror.
00:29:33At TVs and news, wherever the big news stories happening,
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