The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Commissioner of Police Babaji Sunday has announced the prohibition of sales and use of all kinds of fireworks, fire-crackers, and knockouts in Abuja. Sunday warned that anyone who violates the order would be arrested and brought to book. According to a statement by the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Josephine Adeh, the order is part of a proactive move by the Police to sustain the relative peace in the FCT and adequately contain crimes and criminality, particularly ones peculiar to the end of the year and the Christmas and New Year festivities.

A former Chief of Army Staff, Mohammed InuwaWushishi (retd.), is dead. Wushishi, who hailed from Niger state, was said to have died on Saturday at a hospital in London, this was disclosed by Mary Noel Berje, spokesperson for the governor of Niger state.
Governor of Niger, Abubakar Bello, was quoted as expressing sadness over the development and sympathizing with the family of the deceased.

Barrister Aloy Ejimakor, a special counsel to the leader of Proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has today given some insight into what happened to Nnamdi Kau during the court proceeding today. Ejimakor said the court directed that “That Mazi Kanu be given maximum comfort possible in the DSS detention facility. That he be allowed a change of clothing.” The Lawyer to Nnamdi Kanu added that during the court sitting, there was a near-total absence of security operatives within the court premises that almost appeared to him as unusual.

Governor Bello Mohammed Matawalle has announced that the ban on telecommunication networks in Zamfara State will be lifted on Tuesday. The telecommunication services were disrupted in the state on September 4 as part of the stringent measures to contain the raging armed banditry and kidnapping in the state. Governor Matawalle made the announcement at the state congress of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Gusau the state capital on Saturday. The Nigeria Communications Commission(NCC) had in September instructed all telecommunications companies to shut down their services in Zamfara over lingering insecurity in the state. In October, the governor had directed telecommunication companies to restore network service in Gusau, the state capital city.

The Pan-Yoruba Socio-Political Organisation, Afenifere, has reacted to call from some concerned sons and daughters of Yoruba calling them to emulate the Ohanaze Ndibo, who approached Buhari to demand the unconditional release of Sunday Adeyemo, (aka Igboho), a Yoruba Nation agitator who is languishing in prison custody at the Benin Republic.