The acting Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olukayode Egbetokun has ordered state Commissioners of Police (CPs) to establish Complaint Response Units (CRUs) in their respective state command, adding that this development was due to his commitment to sanitize and standardize the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) in line with his commitment to fortify the Force’s complaints response mechanisms. This was made known on Friday by the Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, adding that the IGP also approved the appointment of CSP El-Mustapha Sani as the Head, CRU.

The Country Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Cristian Munduate, has urged the Federal Government to apply relevant laws to prosecute bandits for their atrocities committed against humanity.
Cristian made the call during a press briefing preparatory to the commemoration of World Humanitarian Day in Maiduguri on Friday.

Seplat Energy Plc had on Tuesday confirmed in a statement signed by its Chief Executive Officer, Roger Brown, that its drilling rig collapsed; leading to the death of one of its staff, while three other of its crew members are yet to be accounted for. Mr. Brown said the incident involving the Majestic rig occurred near Ovhor, Delta State, in the early hours of Tuesday. He said 92 persons among the 96-member crew are safe. “Seplat Energy regrets to announce a serious incident on the Depthwise swamp drilling rig “Majestic” in the early hours of this morning.

Bandits have claimed responsibility for the crash of the Nigeria Air Force (NAF) MI-171 helicopter which occurred on Monday near Chukuba village in Niger State during a casualty evacuation mission. The bandits made this disclosure in a two-minute-and-seventeen-second video released on Tuesday, claiming that they brought down the aircraft using AK-47 rifles. According to the video narrator, who spoke in Hausa, he stated that they were part of Dogo Gide group, one of the most notorious bandit group operating and terrorizing parts of Niger state and responsible for the deaths of civilians and security personnel.

An aircraft belonging to the Nigerian Air Force crashed on its way to Niger State; the incident reportedly took place at about 1 pm on 14th August 2023. It was confirmed that the flight which took off from Kaduna was en route to Minna, the Niger State capital when the tragic incident occurred. NAF revealed that the aircraft was on a casualty evacuation mission when the crash happened. A statement on Monday by the NAF Director of Public Relations and Information, Air Commodore Edward Gabkwet confirming the incident stated the aircraft departed Zungeru Primary School en route to Kaduna but was later discovered to have crashed in a village in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger.

Nigerians in Niger have beseeched the Federal Government to hasten up plans on evacuating them from the embattled Nigeriens and returning home before any war breaks out. The Nigerian who made this public on Saturday said the appeal became necessary so as to avoid being caught up in the line of fire and to avoid a repeat of what happened in Sudan where many Nigerian students were trapped when fighting broke out between the government forces and rebels.