MY FUTURE MY LIFE

The outgoing Ambassador of France to Nigeria, Ms Emmanuelle Blatmann, has said she will not be missing the nation’s pepper soup because it almost killed her. Blatmann, who has been France’s Ambassador to Nigeria since October 2021, disclosed this in an interview in Abuja on Thursday, January 11, ahead of her departure from Nigeria. “I will be very honest with you and blunt, I will not miss the pepper soup because it’s too peppery. You people tried to kill me several times. I will be eating all sorts of things with my eyes red & crying, I have smoke coming out of my ears. I am exaggerating but honestly, why do you put so much pepper? In the North, it’s better but in the South West, my God! But I like the jollof rice, I like the moimoi and the puff-puff. I will miss the climate, I will miss the love of the people, I will miss the sense of humour, the laughter, the music, the dancing, I dance a lot, I will miss a lot,” she said.

  A public interest and human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, has petitioned the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, requesting him to fish out and punish a group of Army personnel whom he claimed assaulted a police officer, ASP Edet Inyang. Effiong made this known in a statement on his X handle, on Thursday night. According to him, the torture of  Inyang by an unidentified group of Army personnel occurred on December 9, 2023, at a store close to the Nigerian Army’s 63 Brigade in Asaba, Delta State, where the policeman had gone to purchase some items for his personal use. PUNCH reports that President Bola Tinubu  recently warned  men of the Nigerian Army to desist from carrying out retaliatory assaults on the police or any civilian population over any provocation. According to a former Director, Army Public Relations, Brig. Gen. Sani Usman, in an  exclusive interview  with The PUNCH in 2017, while speaking on abuse of human rights by so...