The attack aircraft of the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Sunday carried out a successful, coordinated precision Air Interdiction strike as part of the ongoing efforts to frustrate the activities of terrorists in a known terrorist enclave at Dabar Masara, Southern Tumbuns.

Equipping The Persecuted, a humanitarian organization, has expressed concern over what it claims is a scheme to murder a large number of people on Christmas Day in certain northern regions. However, the Presidency quickly questioned the group's intentions, stating that the alarm was dubious and may unnecessarily frighten Nigerians.

One of the rescued pupils from Niger State, Florence Michael, has described how the abductors kept them in a bush near a river. Speaking on Monday after the National Security Adviser (NSA), Malam Nuhu Ribadu, formally handed over the 100 freed schoolchildren to the state government, she recounted that the captors provided a trampoline for them to lie on and ordered them to remain silent. “They told us if we make noise, they would beat us, and we would not go back home,” she told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).

The newly appointed Minister of Defence and immediate past Chief of Defence Staff, retired Gen. Christopher Musa, officially took office on Friday at the Ministry of Defence Ship House, Abuja. Gen. Musa, who was appointed on Tuesday by President Bola Tinubu after the resignation of former minister Muhammed Badaru, received Senate confirmation on Thursday.