The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, on Monday in Abuja frowned at the use of unregistered SIM cards in the country in spite of subsisting government ban.
Burutai said the development was a major setback in the use of digital and mobile forensics by the Nigeria military in the fight against terrorism, kidnapping and other national threats.
At least five people were killed on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in northeastern Nigeria, a militia member assisting the military against Boko Haram jihadists said.
The leader of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) in Ajiri Yala, some 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of Maiduguri, said the attack happened at about 4:30 am.
National Insurance Commission (NAICOM) staff staged a protest Friday morning in Abuja over alleged non-promotion of staff in the commision.
The staff have also insisted on a three-day warning strike to commence immediately.
The aggrieved staff who called for the removal of the Commissioner for Insurance, Alhaji Mohammed Kari, said they lacked necessary work tools while their allowances have not been paid.
The workers also lamented the delay in the review of the Insurance Act 2003 by the National Assembly which they said was frustrating policy implementations in the commission.
The workers displayed placards with inscriptions targeting the commissioner for insurance, such as “Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop” and “Mohammed Kari must go.”
Sokoto State Government said it had started the process of connecting a number of rural households with solar power to deepen energy usage and enhance rural electrification in the state.
Alhaji Bashir Gidado, the Special Adviser to Gov. Aminu Tambuwal on Public Private Partnership (PPP), made the disclosure at a news conference in Sokoto on Sunday.
The Kaduna State Wing of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) on Thursday said it would shut down all public schools if the state sacks any of the 21,000 teachers that failed four examination.
The teachers’ union was reacting to the governor’s statement two weeks ago, in which he announced plans to sack 21,780 primary school teachers who allegedly failed a competency test and replace them with 25,000 new ones.
The Inspector-General of Police, Mr Ibrahim Idris, said Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) lost over N500 million to activities of vandals in Abuja, Nasarawa, Kogi and Niger from January to date.
Idris made this known while inaugurating the Anti-Electricity Vandalism Response Squad (AEVRS) on Tuesday in Abuja.
