In order to oversee counter-insurgency operations in the unstable Borno State, service chiefs and other security leaders will move to Maiduguri. The order was issued by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in response to the coordinated recurrence of terror acts in the Northeast on Monday.
The Federal High Court sitting in Delta State has ruled that Nigerians can record police officers in public while performing their duties, adding that it is a constitutional right.
Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), on Monday at Ivara Esu Estate in Odukpani Local Government Area, Cross River State, arrested one suspected gunrunner, Kelvin Ebikeniye Dugo.
A thorough investigation into the alleged human trafficking of four minors from Adamawa State on their way to Nasarawa State has been launched by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP). Sa'adatu Galadima, the Nasarawa State Commandant of NAPTIP, made this revelation on Thursday in Lafia, the state capital, while parading two suspects in the trafficking of children. She claims that the traffickers, identified as 33-year-old Asabe Bedan and 40-year-old Calpurnia Ogianfen, were apprehended by Department of State Services agents while traveling from Karu Local Government Area in Nasarawa State to Edo State.
Following an increase in blatant terrorist assaults, Nigeria's Minister of Defense, Christopher Musa, has instructed the service chiefs to promptly adjust military operations across different theaters. After an emergency combat audit with the service chiefs the day before at the Defence Headquarters in Abuja, Mr. Musa revealed this in a Facebook post on Thursday. Mr. Musa, a retired army general and former chief of defense staff, reportedly called the service chiefs on Wednesday and acknowledged the deaths of military personnel while pointing out that the terrorists had suffered more casualties.
Early on Monday morning, there were reports of a fire at the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation's Abuja headquarters. A portion of the federal civil service building was affected by the fire, which alarmed both employees and guests inside the complex. As emergency personnel raced to the scene, thick smoke rose from the affected area. As of the time this article was filed, officials indicated the precise cause of the fire was still unknown. Early signs, however, point to a potential power spike within the building as the cause of the incident.
