The United Nations Department of Safety and Security has warned all humanitarian workers currently working in Rann to evacuate their staff following last night’s attack on the Internally Displaced Persons’ Camp (IDPs camp). According to Dailytrust, the UN directive was contained in a statement issued on Friday.
The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi disclosed that the Federal Government has finalized plans to compel cargo transporters plying the Lagos/Ibadan highway to use the railway system.
The delay in the resuscitation of the Eastern railway network is a great disservice to efforts to diversify the economy. The Senate Joint Committee on Land Transport and Local and Foreign Debts chaired by Senator Gbenga Ashafa, recently invited the Minister of Transport, Chibuike Amaechi, to explain factors behind what is being seen as the “exclusion” of the Eastern rails from the Muhammadu Buhari regime’s railway agenda.
The Nigerian Army has announced that it repelled another attack by BokoHaram in Arege village in Borno State while attempting to infiltrate 118 Battalion. Scores of the insurgents were reportedly killed, while high caliber weapons were recovered including; one Anti Aircraft Gun, four AK 47 rifles and one Light Machine Gun, with hundreds of different caliber of ammunition.
An emergency meeting of African Heads of government was held yesterday at N'Djamena, the Chadian Capital, with a motion to renewing strategies in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgents that have troubled the region.
While the Nigerian government strives to contain and neutralize numbers of security challenges, some unscrupulous person are equally doing all they could to cause mayhem and unrest.
