Senator representing Borno south at the National Assembly, Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume has slammed the report by some section of the media that “Boko Haram raided police mobile Training school at Gwoza and abducted some policemen.
Ndume, who is the Chairman Senate Committee on Army, and somebody who hails from the said Local Government, Gwoza, in Borno state described the news as ‘fake’, an act of mischief-makers. There was a report alleging that dozens of Police officers were abducted from a Police Mobile training School after the terrorist Boko Haram raided the school located at Limankara Village, a suburb located 20km away from Gwoza town.

The Federal Government (FG) has donated 200 Buffalo trucks, protective helmets, bulletproof vests, and medical equipment worth N7.5Bn to the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) to assist in tackling crime across the nation.

The Federal Government (FG) has inaugurated the governing board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha performed the inauguration on behalf of the federal government on Thursday in Abuja.

The Police in Delta State have confirmed that three persons including two children have died after a storey building collapsed at Okpanam road, Asaba the state capital. The church Salvation Ministries were having their evening service on Tuesday, when the incident occurred. Police spokesperson DSP Bright Edafe, said as at yesterday night when the incident happened, 18 persons have been rescued out of the building and three people are critically injured but as at Wednesday morning three persons where confirmed dead.

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.”