The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Taoreed Lagbaja, has in the ongoing call for the return of Local Government Autonomy said that full autonomy to local government areas will undoubtedly solve the problem of insecurity in the country. General Lagbaja stated this today in Jos, Plateau state during the Nigerian Army celebration, emphasizing that unless local communities experienced development, the dream of good security will be like chasing of a wild Goose in the country.

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed he did not discuss issues relating to releasing Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) when he had a discussion with the South-East Governors yesterday. It was learned that Governors under the banner of the South-East Governors’ Forum met in Enugu, yesterday Tuesday, and resolved to meet with President Bola Tinubu to discuss how the group will negotiate the release of the IPOB leader.

A multi-million naira project, Zungeru Hydro Electricity Dam in Niger State was hits by explosion on Monday. The Federal Government hydro dam, still under construction and yet to be commissioned is the fourth hydroelectric dam in Niger State after Jebba, Kainji, and Shiroro. The cause of the explosion which occurred early Monday is yet to be known, leaving several workers with various degrees of injuries.

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”.