The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Maj. Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, has questioned the amnesty programmes for terrorists and bandits in Nigeria, adding that it has failed to achieve its purpose and beneficiaries have refused to repent and exploit the opportunity to regroup and continue their nefarious activities. He made this known on Wednesday when the Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Lawal, paid him a courtesy visit.

In the early hours of Tuesday, the factional leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Simon Ekpa issued a fresh order announcing a two-week sit-at-home lockdown in the whole of Southeastern states. This order is coming shortly after a closed-door meeting in Abuja with southeast political leaders and President Tinubu on resolving the security situation in the region. Also present in the meeting were Governors, National, and state assembly members, and other notable leaders of the meeting. “Following the demand by the Biafra people for more sit-at-home civil disobedience, the Biafra Republic Government In-Exile (BRGIE) and Biafra De Facto Government In Homeland wish to notify Biafrans that there will be a sit-at-home civil disobedience starting from 31 July 2023 to 14 August 2023,” Ekpa said.

Aggrieved members of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS), formerly Nigerian Prisons Service, has demanded salary upgrade to meet their counterpart in the Interior Ministry, hence wrote President Bola Tinubu about alleged corruption and poor remuneration in the Service. According to the letter, staff of NCS are poorly paid if compared to their colleagues in other Departments at the Ministry of Interior, leading to personnel depending on inmates to feed their families.

Following the military airstrike that has lead to neutralising scores of terrorist, the Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, terrorist has banned farmers and fishermen from operations in Marte Local Government Area, LGA, Borno state for being suspicious of playing a double agent. The terrorist has vowed to kill anyone found in villages like, Katikime, Bulungahe, Kutukungunla, Chikun Gudu, Tumbumma, Guma Kura, Guma Gana and New Marte, after accusing them of spying on their activities for the Nigerian military.

The Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang has imposed a 24-hour curfew on Mangu Local Government Area (LGA) over the recent killings in the community. This was revealed in a statement by the director of press and public affairs to the Governor, Gyang Bere. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) has reported a fresh attack on some communities in Mangu LGA in the late hours of Saturday, leading to the displacement of many indigenes, the death of about nine persons, and the destruction of properties.

The Department of State Services (DSS) has dismissed series of allegations of highhandedness and unprofessionalism leveled against it on various online media platforms by SaharaReporters, Peoples Gazette and one Jackson Ude, among others. A statement issued via its official Twitter handle on Sunday by its spokesman Peter Afunanya described the reports as misleading, and hatchet jobs designed to smear or impeach the integrity of the Service and its leadership.