The Sultan of Sokoto and Chairman of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed fear that with millions of Nigerian youths left without jobs and food, Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder. This came two days after the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, had decried the ravaging hunger and starvation in the land. Speaking at the 6th Executive Committee Meeting of the Northern Traditional Rulers Council yesterday in Kaduna, the Sultan said the economic hardship in Nigeria had reached a level where citizens were agitated, angry, and hungry. He said: “We have now entered into a new cycle of leadership. Some new governors have come on board, while some are having their second term and still, we are faced with these insecurity issues.

Umbrella body of Nigerian lawyers , Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has called on President Bola Tinubu to declare a state of emergency on the issue of insecurity in the country at the threat has continued unabated.
According to the lawyers, “what Nigerians require is a well thought-out, informed, all-inclusive and purposeful intervention, with as much necessary information made available to the public as made be dictated or permitted by the security situations from time to time.”

The Nigerian Police Force, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, Abuja, has confirmed the arrest of seven notorious kidnappers and the recovery of N9 million cash collected as ransom. The police commissioner in FCT, CP Benneth Igweh, while parading the suspects at the command on Wednesday, said the wanted kidnappers were arrested by operatives of the Utako police division led by CSP Victor Godfrey in a coordinated operation at Tudun –Wada Lugbe and Pyakasa area of Trademore. They were identified as Usman Muazu from Kwali, FCT, Aliyu Mohammed, from Pumpomare area of Borno state, Awwal Dahiru, who hails from Gwagwalada area council of the FCT, Rabi Sani, from Safana, Katsina state and Madina Abubakar, from Gulu, Lapai local government area of Niger state.

The federal government through Vice President, Kasim Shettima, has revealed that its Administration is set to commence the implementation of the ‘Pulaku Initiative’, a large-scale resettlement programme aimed at addressing the root causes of farmer-herder conflicts and fostering national unity. Shettima, on Tuesday, inaugurated a steering committee to coordinate the implementation of the initiative in fulfillment of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s promise to improve the lives of all Nigerians, at the Presidential Villa, chaired by Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa also has representatives of governors of the affected States as members.

Following the unabated escalation in food commodity price in Nigeria, the Federal Government has concluded plan to establish a National Commodity Board to look into the matter of food inflation in the country. Vice President Kashim Shettima made this known today during the meeting of a two-day, high-level strategic meeting on climate change, food systems and resource mobilization held in Abuja.

The North East Development Commission has disclosed its plan of establishing a mega waste collecting point in Adamawa in its effort to support clean energy and environment. This was made known by the Environment and Natural Resource manager of the commission, Mr Sufyan Mallum during an opening season of a five-days training workshop for 100 stakeholders on climate change in Yola today. According to Mallum, the recycling plant would have the capacity of collection 100 tonnes of waste per day and shall be handed over to the state management when completed for running it.