The Senate on Thursday resolved to summon all the security chiefs over worsening insecurity and the incessant abduction of university students in different parts of the country. The Senate took the decision following deliberation of a motion by Senator Abdulaziz Musa Yar’Adua (Katsina Central), over the kidnapping of five female students of the Federal University in Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina in the early hours of Wednesday.

The Supreme Court on Thursday has stated that it will deliver judgment in the appeal filed by the Federal Government against the Court of Appeal judgment that quashed the criminal charges against the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and ordered his release by 15 of December. 

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alliviation, Betta Edu says president Tinubu in his effort to fulfil campaign promises has directed her Ministry to reserve 10 percent of social safety net intervention to senior citizens. Edu made this known yesterday in Abuja through a statement from her media spokesperson, Rasheed Zubair.

The House of Representatives members has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, and his sister security agencies to secure the safe release of the seven kidnapped National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members kidnapped in Zamfara state by terrorist bandits. This followed the adoption of a motion moved by Unyime Idem (PDP, Akwa Ibom) and eight others at the Plenary on Tuesday, saying the corps members have been left to their faith and only god knows the hell they are passing through. 

A boat carrying over 30 passengers on board from Kasabu village in Agwara local government area of Niger to Yauri in Kebbi has capsized. More than 22 of the passengers have been declared missing. Alhaji Salihu Garba, overseeing Director General of the Niger State Emergency Management Agency (NSEMA), disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Minna on Monday. Confirming the ugly development to the Voice of America through telephone, the Chairman of Yauri LGA, Bala Yauri, disclosed that the incident has left the people of the local government in deep sorrow.

The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has today warned school principals against mobilising school children from the southeast for the Nigerian independence Day celebration. Spokesperson for the proscribed terrorist group, Emma Powerful, gave the warning today that whoever mobilises students for the celebration during the 1st October should have themselves to be blame.