The Nigeria Railway Corporation, NRC, has suspended its services indefinitely along the Abuja-Kaduna route due to what they described as unforeseen circumstances. NRC made the above information public via a statement on its Twitter page on Tuesday 29th March, 2022. This is coming less than 24 hours after bandits blew up train rails and attacked the 6pm train heading to Kaduna from Abuja.

The National Population Commission (NPC) has on Monday announced that it will conduct a general census exercise this year, assuring an accurate, reliable, and credible exercise. In a statement, the Chairman, NPC, Mr. Nasir Kwarra made the announcement during the opening ceremony of the workshop on Census Management Training for Chairman and Honourable Federal Commissioners in Karu, Nasarawa State. He assured Nigerians that the commission is committed to conducting a census exercise that meets international standards with results acceptable to Nigerians as no stone will be left unturned.

In an attack at Kabo Village in the Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State no less than three persons have been killed following an invasion of armed men who stormed the community in large numbers on Monday afternoon 28th March 2022 while shooting sporadically.

Armed bandits numbering over 200 invaded the Kaduna International Airport on Saturday, shooting dead a security officer of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). The invaders overran the runway and prevented a Lagos-bound AZMAN aircraft from taking off at about 12:30 pm. The attack forced the authorities to temporarily shut down the Airport, while the military battled the gunmen. The bandits who started attacking the airport from midnight were said to have been aggrieved that some soldiers seized their cattle

The United States (US) donated equipment worth $2 million to the Explosive Ordinance Disposal and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (EOD-CBRN) Command, Lagos of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF). This was made known in a statement which disclosed that the equipment was presented on Friday by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence.

The United States (US) has announced that it has placed six Nigerians on its terrorist list for their alleged involvement in sponsoring the terrorist group, Boko Haram. The US Department of State had designated Boko Haram as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist Organization (SDGTO) on November 14, 2013. Boko Haram is responsible for several attacks in the Northern and North-Eastern regions of Nigeria as well as in the Lake Chad Basin in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger that have killed thousands of people since 2019.