The Borno State government has revealed that more than 95 per cent of people in the state whom were holding the ideology of Boko Haram , especially the founding members are either dead or have gave up on the ideology.  Special Adviser to the Borno State Government on Security Affairs, Brig. Gen. Ishaq Abdullahi (Rtd) disclosed this during an interview with Daily Trust in Maiduguri yesterday Sunday. The retired Army General said the leadership of the deadly group has become frenzy as only about 10 of the founding members might still be alive and on the run.

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has charged telecom operators to bar any active mobile line that is not linked to NIN on or before February 28, 2024. This was even as it said the same codes were introduced for mobile lines in order to authenticate and protect the identities of users.

The Transmission Company of Nigeria on Wednesday, reported that Tower 70 along its 330kV Gwagwalada-Katampe line was vandalized, leaving it in a precarious state. The development was revealed by the company's General Manager of Public Affairs, Ndidi Mbah, who said in a statement occurred on the 26th of February, 2024, at about 11.32 pm. “The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) hereby states that Tower 70 along its 330kV Gwagwalada -Katampe Transmission line has been vandalized, with the tower standing precariously on the ground.

Following the anxiety that followed the directive of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the implemention of the Orosonye report, the federal government has assured all affected workers that they will not be thrown out into labour market. The Federal Government had on Monday through the Federal Executive Council meeting, FEC adopted to implement the Orosonye report of year 2014 to reduce the cost of governance in Nigeria.

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has suspended its nationwide protests, which were held in different states of the federation earlier on Tuesday. The Labour, in a communiqué at the end of its National Executive Council meeting, said the objectives of the protest were achieved on the first day of the demonstration. The union also extended its earlier 7-days ultimatum by another 7 days which now expires on the 13th day of March 2024 within which the Government is expected to implement all the earlier agreements of the 2nd day of October 2023 and other demands presented in our letter during today’s nationwide protest”.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has called on the Federal Government that what Nigerians need at this excruciating hardship in the country is a conscious and deliberate action and not mere rhetoric’s. President of the NLC, Comrade Joe Ajaero, stated this while addressing the leadership of the National Assembly when the lawmakers came to receive the protesting workers who stormed the national legislative complex to register their discontent over hardship currently facing the Nigerian common man.