An Air Force helicopter belonging to the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, in the wee hours of this morning crashed in Tami village, located in the Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Eyewitness said the incident happened at approximately 5:00 am, causing significant panic among residents of the community.

The Borno State Deputy Governor, Umar Kadafur, has expressed the readiness of the state government to continue fighting against insurgency and terrorism in the state. Kadafur stated this when he visited victims of the Saturday suicide bomb blast that hits Gwoza Local Government Area, LGA, of the state.

The State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, has said that eighteen people killed and more than 30 persons with risky injuries on Saturday as four suicide bombers set off Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Gwoza, Borno State. The Director-General of SEMA, Barkindo Saidu said “In my presence, at about 3pm, the first bomb blast in Gwoza occurred, detonated by a female suicide bomber in the midst of the marriage ceremony celebration, near the Fire Service in Gwoza town”.

President Bola Tinubu has sympathized with traders whose goods were destroyed in the Karu Abuja market inferno on Thursday, revealing that his administration will render support to the victims. The fire, which destroyed goods worth millions of naira, was put to an end by officials of the Federal Capital Territory Fire Service, Federal Fire Service, and Julius Berger Fire Service. “President Bola Tinubu receives the news of the fire incident, which affected sections of Karu Market in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with deep sadness,” the President’s Special Adviser on Media & Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale said in a State House statement on Friday.

The Chairman, Military Pensions Board (MPB), AVM Paul Irumheson, says the Federal Government has approved an electronic verification system for military pensioners to ensure sanity in pension administration. Irumheson stated this while addressing newsmen on the commencement of the electronic verification exercise nationwide on Friday in Abuja. He said the initiative was aimed at sanitizing military pension administration and elimination of issues of impersonation. The chairman said the board adopted an electronic verification system to reduce the risk of traveling from one place to another, and the cost of transportation owing to their old age.
“You may recall that on Feb. 15, I briefed this honourable press about the board`s intention or plan to move from physical verification to electronic verification for our military retirees.

The Nigerian Army says its recruitment is guided by the provisions of the constitution and not on ethnicity or religious sentiment. It said that it “remains steadfast in upholding professionalism and impartiality as an institution devoid of ethnic and religious bigotry.” The army’s spokesperson, Maj.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement on Tuesday, June 25, while reacting to a viral video that showed a man calling young men to join the military to protect their religion.