The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has donated the sum of $10million to Nigeria to aid the nation’s fight against the insurgency.

According to the team leader from Saudi Arabia, the donation is part of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Programme.

The United Nations has condemned the killing of three aid workers by Boko Haram terrorists in Rann town of Borno State, North-east Nigeria.

The terrorists had attacked a camp of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the area on Thursday. The international body said three aid workers were also injured, and a female nurse is missing.

Reacting to the killing in a statement on Friday, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Nigeria, Edward Kallon, urged the Federal Government to ensure the attackers are brought to book.

The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has graduated the first set of in-house trained pilots for its Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), as part of the human capacity development initiatives of the current NAF leadership. Director of Public Relations and Information, Nigerian Air Force Air Vice Marshal Olatokunbo Adesanya said the 5 newly trained RPA pilots were decorated with their ‘wings’ by the Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, at the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Base at Maiduguri.

The US treasury department has included Abu Musab Al-Barnawi, factional leader of Boko Haram, to its sanctions list for global terrorism. Al-Barnawi’s group is suspected of being behind the abduction of female students from Dapchi, a town in Yobe state On Tuesday, the treasury’s office of foreign assets control (OFAC) said two individuals and seven organisations in Africa and Asia have been included in the list.