The wife of the President, Aisha Buhari has announced her resolve to lead a movement that would ensure the release of the recently abducted schoolgirls from Dapchi, Yobe state. Aisha who made the disclosure on Thursday while celebrating International Women's Day, urged Nigerian women to use the occasion to reflect on the ugly situation, offer prayers for the release of the girls and ultimately join her new movement tagged “Leave Our Daughters Alone” in order to demand for the release of missing girls.

Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun on Wednesday, disclosed that most of the country’s corruptly-enriched individual “hide under the radar” to evade taxation.

According to the minister, only low-income as well as salary earners whose taxes are deducted at source, pay tax in the country.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Jalingo, Taraba State, said the federal government will continue to strengthen relations with traditional institutions in the country in order to find lasting solutions to the herdsmen and farmers crises. President Buhari, accompanied by Governor Darius Ishaku of Taraba State, had an interactive forum with traditional rulers, community leaders, representatives of farmers and herdsmen, security chiefs and some top government officials in the state.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated the sum of $10million to Nigeria to aid the nation’s fight against the insurgency.

According to the team leader from Saudi Arabia, the donation is part of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Programme.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has graduated the first set of in-house trained pilots for its Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), as part of the human capacity development initiatives of the current NAF leadership. Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya said the 5 newly trained RPA pilots were decorated with their ‘wings’ by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base at Maiduguri.

The United Nations has condemned the killing of three aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists in Rann town of Borno State, North-east Nigeria.

The terrorists had attacked a camp of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the area on Thursday. The international body said three aid workers were also injured, and a female nurse is missing.

Reacting to the killing in a statement on Friday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, urged the Federal Government to ensure the attackers are brought to book.