The Nigerian Army has announced the appointment of General Officers Commanding (GOCs) and other senior Field Commanders in a bid to reorganize the Army. The Director, Army Public Relations, Onyema Nwachukwu made the announcement in a released statement, saying the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Faruk Yahaya approved the posting on Tuesday. The redeployment of senior officers in the Army comes a week after Nigerian Air Force (NAF) reshuffled its Generals. 

The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Lucky Irabor, has expressed his pleasure at the recent gazette of the court ruling which declared bandits as terrorists. Irabor stressed that the development would allow the armed forces to give the bandits “the bloody nose they desire.”

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it had recovered the sums of N152,088,698,751.64, $386,220,202.84, £1,1182,519.75, €156,246.761, 723,310.00 Saudi Riyal, 1,900.00 South African Rands, and 1,400 Canadian Dollars between the period of January and December 2021.

The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria  (HURIWA) has called for the immediate resignation of Zamfara State Governor, Bello Muhammad Matawalle over his alleged inability as the chief security officer of the state to secure the lives of citizens of the state. The rights group made the call in a statement on Saturday while reacting to the gruesome murder of more than 200 villagers in Anka and Bukkuyum local government areas of the state by rampaging bandits.It was earlier revealed that the bandits, who were fleeing as a result of ongoing military operations, were trying to leave the state with a large number of animals when they attacked some villages in the two local government areas, killing over 200 people in the process.

President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Prof George Obiozor has voiced out Ndigbo's position on Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB's recent ban on the consumption of cow meat in the South-East, insisted that IPOB, does not speak for the entire people of the Southeast. The Ohanaeze President-General who disclosed this on Friday while featuring on Arise Tv, said IPOB's ban, which has attracted outrage from Northern leaders, was based on perceived injustice against the Southeast.

The Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) has threatened to call for a boycott of all businesses operated by Igbos all over the North from April 2022. The CNG gave the warning in reaction to the so-called cattle ban by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on the use of ‘Fulani cows (beef) in the South East. CNG Spokesperson, Abdul-Azeez Suleiman, stated yesterday that IPOB’s order last Monday “amounts to grave provocation and serious threat to Northern commercial interests in the South East, and by extension to the physical wellbeing of Northerners living as minorities among Igbo communities. “It is a renewed resolve to pay coin for coin any direct or indirect attack or threat to Northerners and their interests anywhere in the country,” Suleiman said.