The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya, has kicked off “Exercises Still Waters, Golden Dawn and Enduring Peace” to tackle security challenges in the country especially during the Yuletide season. The director of Army Public Relations Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, revealed that the exercises targeted at mitigating the current security challenges in the South-South, South East, South West and North Central are to run concurrently across Nigeria.

A private company, Naebi Dynamic Services Limited, is to monitor the records of helicopter movements in and out of Nigeria and assist the country to boost Internally Generated Revenue from the sector. Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, the Managing Director, Naebi Dynamic Services, Stanley Chike, said the firm was investing in equipment to monitor activities in the aviation and oil sectors across the country. According to him, the firm is investing in a multinational control room centre, radar equipment and navigational facilities to monitor the activities in the two sectors and beyond. With this investment, Chike said the movement of low-level flying equipment like helicopters would be appropriately captured by the country, while the IGR for the government would also increase.

Armed hoodlums have reportedly attacked Abdulsalam Abubakar General Hospital, in the process killing two persons in Gulu, Lapai Local Government Area of Niger State, it was also revealed that the gunmen abducted over ten persons including a medical doctor and a pharmacist.
The incident was said to have occurred in the early hours of 18th October 2022, one of those killed in the act is retired medical personnel known as Ya-Tachi who lived opposite the hospital. According to eyewitnesses, it was said that the gunmen stormed in their numbers while shooting sporadically without confrontation from either security operatives or vigilantes while carrying out their operation.

Nigerian community leaders, local government areas in states including Anambra, Delta, Cross River, Rivers and Bayelsa states, have been warned of impending floods in the coming weeks by the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar-Farouq, on Sunday during a media briefing in Abuja. The minister, while enumerating the government’s efforts in mitigating the disaster in the country which she described as overwhelming, urged state governments to begin evacuation of persons living along water channels and other areas obstructing the flow of water. According to her, despite concerted efforts to avert the consequences of the 2022 flooding season as forecast by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency, many state governments did not prepare for the floods. So far, at least 603 people have been killed and 1.3 million persons displaced by floods from their communities, according to federal government, Experts are saying this is the worse flood disaster in Nigerian history.

Flight with registration number NAF 930 belonging to the Nigerian Air Force has become the first aircraft to land at the newly built Cargo Airport in Ado-Ekiti. The aircraft which landed at 10:20 am was flown by flight lieutenant Balogun, who conveyed the Federal Government delegates. The inaugural landing of the aircraft was witnessed by a jubilant crowd and dignitaries, including outgoing Governor Kayode Fayemi; Aviation Minister, Haidi Sirika; Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Niyi Adebayo; Ekiti Speaker Funminiyi Afuye, his deputy, Hakeem Jamiu and other top government officials.

Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), was discharged, but not acquitted, according to the Federal Government. The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice Abubakar Malami (SAN) has said on Thursday the appellate court only decided a single issue that borders on rendition. Adding that Kanu has other pre-rendition cases to answer. Malami made the clarifications in a statement through his Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar jibrilu Gwandu. The statement reads: “The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has received the news of the decision of the Court of Appeal concerning the trial of Nnamdi Kanu. For the avoidance of doubt and by the verdict of the Court, Kanu was only discharged and not acquitted.”