The Police, Army and the Department of State Security (DSS) have said that they have successfully burst a planned kidnap and abduction of students from the Gombe State College of Islamic and Legal Studies in Nafada, a border town with Yobe State. Briefing journalists in Gombe, the State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Shina Tairu Olukolu,

Residents of Takum and Ussa Local Government areas of Taraba state have raised alarm that marauding herdsmen carrying out attacks on them are now using machine guns to their people, despite ongoing military operation. Chairman of Ussa Local Government Council, Mr. Rimamsikwe Karma, who stated this on Friday while speaking to newsmen said the marauding herders are not the regular herdsmen they had known, revealing that this ones are strange.

Sen. Shehu Sani, Senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District has condemned the killing of 12 Soldiers by unknown gunmen in the Kampanim Village, Doka area in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna state. Senator Sani made his opinion known in a post on his Facebook page. While condoling with the families of the slain soldiers, he hinted that the issue had been raised on the floor of the Nigerian Senate.

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured that his administration was committed to securing the released of the remaining Dapchi schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu who is still in Boko Haram captivity over her alleged refusal to denounce Christianity. The president gave the assurance in a statement issued to newsmen in Abuja by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

The Benue State government on Thursday said there was fresh Fulani herdsmen attack on Umenger community in Guma Local Government Area of the State. The disclosure was contained in a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Samuel Ortom, Terver Akase.
The statement read in part;

Members of 21st Century Youths and Agitators with Conscience, an umbrella body for ex-Niger Delkta Militants have berated the Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, RNDA and other groups in the region over their threat to cause mayhem in 30days if the President Buhari fails to reinstate Brig. Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd) as chairman, Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP.