Presidential spokesman, GarbaShehu has recounted in a statement that the "real BokoHaram" has been defeated. The Presidential aide recounted that what remains now is “a mixture of remnants of BokoHaram, fugitive criminals and the Islam in the Maghreb together with West African terrorists bonding together.”

Alhaji Jimoh Olumoye in Akoko-Edo branch, a former chairman of the Nigerian Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE), was reported to have been kidnapped along Igarra-Okpe Road on his way to his farm.

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) says the recent proscription of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) is in order, contrary to mixed reactions trailing the decision of the court.

Operatives of the military spike operation, codenamed ‘Operation Whirl Stroke,’ said they have arrested 10 suspected bandits in Benue and Nasarawa states.

The federal government of Nigeria has yesterday declared the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) popularly known as Shiite a terrorist organisation and stand proscribed. The proscription was declared by a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja after considering the recent activities of the group amounting to protest and confrontation with security forces in recent time; the court said the IMN poses a great security threat to the corporate existence of Nigeria.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has called on the federal government to adopt the carrot and stick approach in dealing with continued protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria to avoid further loss of lives.