The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami said the Federal Government is planning to replace the Bank Verification Number (BVN) with the National Identity Number (NIN). Dr. Pantami made this known while addressing newsmen following a facility tour and inspection of the ongoing NIN enrolment exercise at NIMC and other designated centres in Abuja. He added that he made a presentation to the National Economic Sustainability Committee and drew the attention of Godwin Emefiele, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor on the need to replace the BVN with NIN, citing that while the BVN is a regulator’s policy, the NIN is a law.

The leader of the Senate, Yahaya Abdullahi has today disclosed that on resumption tomorrow, the lawmakers will begin by discussing the menace of the marauding Fulani herders.
The lawmaker stated this today while speaking with journalists in his office, saying his deputy leader who is from Ondo North Senatorial District, Prof. Ajayi Boroffice, is set to throw motion concerning the menace into the floor of the hollow chamber.

A Kaduna-based Islamic cleric, Ahmad Mahmud Gumi says the crises he saw in the Zamfara forest were beyond banditry but better described as an insurgency. Sheikh Gumi made this known at the Zamfara state Government house when he met with, Governor Matawalle of Zamfara state, in Gusau, Zamfara state capital on Thursday.

President Muhammadu Buhari has extended the tenure of the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mohammed Adamu for three months. The Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi revealed this on Thursday, February 4, while briefing State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has raised alarm that some interest groups is planning to launch ethno-religious violence in the country. The secret police issued the warning today through its Public Relation Officer (PRO), Dr. Peter Afunaya. According to the statement, states like Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Rivers, Plateau, Oyo, and some part of the South Eastern states of the country are amongst the places pencilled to witness violence if issues are not managed.

The Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde says he would not sit down and watch enemies of peace ignite an ethnic war under his watch as the chief security officer of the state. This was made known through the Chief Press Secretary of the governor, Taiwo Adisa, yesterday shortly after the governor finished having a security meeting with security agencies in the Ibarapa area of the state.