The federal government has flag-off of the distribution of 42,000 metric tonnes (MT) of Assorted Food Commodities from the National Strategic Food Reserve (NSFR) across the country to Vulnerable Nigerians to cushion the effect of the rising cost of food commodities in our community markets. The event was kick-started yesterday Sunday, 6th April 2024, at the Sokoto state Government House, Sokoto.
The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) on Thursday released a list of terrorist commanders killed during different operations between January and March 2024 in the northern part of the country. The names are Abu Bilal Minuki (aka Abubakar Mainok); Head of Is-Al Furqan Province (ISGS and ISWAP) and Haruna Isiya Boderi, a notorious terrorist who operated along Birnin Gwari Forest, Kaduna State and also the Abuja-Kaduna highway.
Following the murder of a lecturer of the Physical and Health Education Department at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID), Abdulkadir Kamal, the Borno State Police Command said it has arrested eight persons in connection to the crime. The Borno State Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Daso Kenneth, who made the above statement on Tuesday said the suspects were arrested following a report filed by the Chief Security Officer (CSO) of the university, that a dead body was found in the school on Sunday. The police from Gwange Division of the command were deployed to the scene of the incident and subsequently arrested the said suspects while an investigation has been activated to unravel the cause of the killing as well as other relevant details.
Fear and panic rose as an explosion hit the Ikeja Army Cantonment on 1st April 2024, the Nigerian Army however tagged the incident as a "minor explosion" and was suspected to be triggered by the burning of refuge and other inflammable debris by a farmer who cultivated the farmland in the barracks. In a statement issued by the director of army public relations, Onyema Nwachukwu stated that no casualty was recorded in the incident that occurred on a farmland near the Mammy market within the cantonment.
The 37-man tripartite committee on minimum wage inaugurated by the Federal Government has hinted it will reconvene its sitting by mid-April to continue its further negotiations and consultations on the new expected minimum wage to be announced by President Bola Tinubu come May 1, 2024. National Treasurer of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC Hakeem Ambali, who happened to be a member of the tripartite committee, made this known yesterday in Abuja.
Troops of the Nigerian Army after conducting separate operation in its ongoing war against terror has neutralises not fewer than 11 terrorist in Zamfara and Katsina states. The terrorists met their waterloo following a deliberate raid on terrorist kingpin hideout in the states. In Zamfara, enclave of a terrorist commander, Hassan Yantagwaye, in Tsafe Local Government Area was busted which resulted in gun duel with terrorist lieutenants’ which ensure the military fixed appointment for two terrorist with their creator.
