The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja has disclosed that the sit-at-home order imposed by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the South-East has ended. He made this revelation Tuesday during the COAS combined second and third-quarter conference.

President Bola Tinubu has orderd an investigation into recurring boat mishaps in the country. The President expressed grief over the death of 41 people in three separate boat mishaps in Niger and Adamawa States within three days. The mishaps occurred on the 9 September in Njuwa lake in Yola, Adamawa State, 10 September in Mokwa of Niger State and 11 September in Gurin, Fufore area of Adamawa State.

The Acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun has established an ad hoc committee tasked with an in-depth review of firearms licensing and regulations by the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). This was disclosed on Monday in a statement issued by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Olumuyiwa Adejobi, stating that this in line with the Firearms Act and other extant laws.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Benue state branch has rejected the federal Government proposal for a Fulani Colony in their state. The Vice president had last week during a function in Maiduguri disclosed that the Tinubu led administration has approved the construction of 1000 houses in Sokoto, Kebbi, kastina, Zamfara, Niger and Benue states with all modern equipment, School, clinics and vetenary and ranches that will be handed over to Fulani people as cattle colony.

Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima had yesterday disclosed that the post insurgency assessment conducted in the northeast indicated that the region has in total lost about $9billion, out which Borno state being the theatre of war accounted for $6.8bn. Shettima stated this in Maiduguri, Borno state capital when he flagged up the palliative distribution for states in the region through the north East Develop Commission, lamenting how some emirates were dislodged from their native lands without anyone to rule.

About thirty people have lost their lives in a landslide reportedly triggered by activities of illegal miners in the Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Chairman Kuje Area Council, Abdullahi Sabo, disclosed this at a maiden meeting on Thursday attended by FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, alongside the Minister of state for FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud and FCT Permanent Secretary Mr. Olusade Adesola, and six Area Councils Chairmen. “There is the issue of illegal mining in the FCT. There is indiscriminate mining licences given out and this has led to insecurity. They give letters of consent to Chinese people.