Reverend Solomon Semaka, the alternate chair of an election monitoring group, International Human Rights Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, has honoured the director-general of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi with an award.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday said it had lost an airman in a parachuting accident in Kaduna. The NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore, Ibikunle Daramola, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria.
In a meeting attended by the nation's Security chiefs, the Chief of Defense Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai, Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, Chief of Naval Staff, Ibok Ekwe Ibas and other heads of security and intelligence agencies, President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the security agencies in the country to ensure that all bandits are immediately dealt with.
On Wednesday, 10th April 2019, Air Task Force (ATF) of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) under its code name "Operation Diran Mikiya" disclosed to have destroyed about eight (8) hideouts of bandits in Zamfara State. According to a statement released by the NAF through its spokesman, Air Commodore Ibikunle Daramola, the air strikes which were intensified on 8 April 2019 with the deployment of additional aircrafts are aimed at flushing out the bandits out of the Zamfara-Katsina and Kaduna axis.
As part of efforts to reform the country prison, the Federal Executive Council (FEC), during its weekly meeting yesterday approved a contract of 2.8 billion naira for the installation of a digital web-based integrated system to fast-track prisons decongestion across the country. The approval was granted during the FEC meeting, presided over by the Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN at the State House, Abuja.
The Senate on Wednesday has resolved to earmark N10billion in the 2019 budget to carter for the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and other Nigerians affected by the banditry activities in Zamfara state. The resolution was reached sequel to deliberation on a motion sponsored by Kabiru Marafa (APC Zamfara central).
