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Aisha Buhari (middle) flanked by Borno Governor Alhaji Kashim Shettima while distributing the items at Benesheik, about 58 km from Maiduguri  Some of items for the distribution Wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari has flagged off the distribution of foods and household utensils to returnees from Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) Camps to fast track their resettlement in their communities. Mrs Buhari who was accompanied by the wives of the Chief of Air Staff, that of former Inspector General of Police, Mrs Idris and former deputy governor of Plateau State, Mrs Pauline Tallen, said at Beneshiek, headquarters of Kaga Local Government that fund for the procurement of the foods were sourced from the donations from well-meaning Nigerians through her Get-Involve-Pprogramme, a unit of her Future-Assured-project She also said she is interested in the success of the Federal Government headed by her husband, President Mohammadu Buhari. "What I am after in particular

Troops of 2 Brigade Nigerian Army involved in Exercise Crocodile Smile in the Niger Delta have discovered and destroyed 52 illegal refineries and refinery cooking pots in Krakrama, Bille and Better land community general area in Rivers State. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement that the troops discovered 6 refining cooking pots at Better Land community which unfortunately could not be destroyed instantly because of proximity to the community. He said they also recovered two high powered Engine boats, 10 empty drums and one pumping machine. Plans for destroying the illegal refinery with Swamp Buggy is in progress. Also the troops in an anti-cultism operation cleared a notorious kidnappers camp at Obiozumini near  Obite  in Ogbema/Ndoni/Egbema Local Government Area of Rivers State. The troops who were earlier ambushed engaged and subdued the kidnappers. One kidnap victim was rescued from the camp.

As part of activities lined up for the  field training exercise, nicknamed “Operation CROCODILE SMILE”, troops of 2 Brigade, 82 Division,  Nigerian Army have touched the lives of over 500 people within Bille Community in Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State with free medical outreach. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement that the free medical services featured consultation, diagnosis and eye care, blood pressure checks, free drugs, blood tests and counselling services. The statement said a similar exercise was held at Nembe Ogbolomabiri and Bassambiri, Bayelsa  State on Saturday with impressive turnout. At all locations, the beneficiaries of the services expressed happiness with the outreach.TROOPS RENDER FREE MEDICAL SERVICES TO COMMUNITIES IN RIVERS AND BAYELSA STATES As part of activities lined up for the  field training exercise, nicknamed “Operation CROCODILE SMILE”, troops of 2 Brigade, 82 Division,  Nigeri

The  troops of 4 Brigade of the Nigerian Army's  field training exercise nicknamed Operation Crocodile Smile in the Niger Delta has entered day four. The troops were involved in a number of activities including humanitarian assistance through free medical outreach, show of force, patrols and raids in the creeks.  Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement that the troops with help of Nigerian Navy helicopters, their speed and gunboats, carried out raid on suspected oil bunkerer and militant camps at Afiagbene, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State. He said they discovered two generators, one locally made double barrel gun, one dane gun, three live cartridges, two Pumping machines, one 32 inches LG Television, one Kenwood amplifier and 4 X 50 Litres of liquid suspected to be crude oil at Ayakoromo junction.

The Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences Unit has impounded ninety-eight motorcycles including tricycles at Rainbow bus stop near Mile Two and FESTAC Town. Chairman of the Task Force, Olayinka Egbeyemi said the operations was carried out based on persistence petitions from members of the public about criminal activities perpetrated by some operators. He said residents living around these areas complaints that criminals use both motorcycles and tricycles to dislodged them of their valuables during day-time and at night. He said the task force would continue to impound and arrest those who are violating government policy on restricted routes across the state. Meanwhile, the Chairman of the Motorcycles Riders and Owners Association of Lagos State, Sulaimon Adesina said the association is ready to partner with the state in getting rid of notorious motorcycles operators. He warned his members to desists from plying restricted routes in the state. He said

The Lagos State Government has issued a fourteen-day ultimatum to all owners of illegal structures, shanties, street hawkers and those who have converted walkways into trading points and food courts in Ikoyi, Victoria Island and the Lagoon Front of Lekki to remove such structures. The State Government also warned that if such illegal structures are not removed after the fourteen days grace, the State Special Task Force on the Clean Up of the areas would move in to enforce the order. The Secretary to the State Government, Tunji Bello said in a statement that owners of all abandoned buildings in different areas of Ikoyi, Lekki and Victoria Island which are now harbouring prostitutes, illegal miscreants and unwanted elements must clear the structures of such undesirable elements immediately. He also warned owners of properties on the Lagoon fronts of Lekki Phase one who have littered the whole areas with compactors and several other dead weight equipment to remove them outri

Operatives of Rapid Response Squad of Lagos State Police Command have arrested a self-acclaimed Chairman of pickpockets in Oshodi, Ibrahim Kasali, and 20 other suspects alleged to be involved in stealing and robbing innocent members of public in the area. The suspects were arrested after the operatives raided Mosafejo, Bolade, Oshodi Oke and Oshodi Under Bridge. The hoodlums and social miscreants were raided while waiting for early rush to pickpocket passers-by and passengers. Ibrahim Kasali, who is popularly known as Ibrahim Babangida of Oshodi, was arrested during the operation while being chased by passengers of a bus which he boarded to pickpocket. Kasali was said to have been to prison four times while one of his accomplices also arrested, Ibrahim Yusuph from Ogun State was just out of prison for the eighth time. Upon completion of preliminary screening, four out of 21 arrested suspects, who could provide satisfactory information about their identity, were released.

Troops of  Twenty-one Brigade of the Seven Division Nigerian Army have    established a temporary school for the children at the Internally Displaced Persons camp located in Bama town, Bama Local Government Area of Borno State using military tents.  This is to further assist the internally displaced persons and enhance civil-military relations. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman. Said in a statement said the school comprised six military tents in which soldiers not on essential duty served as teachers. He said some of the  IDPs who were  teachers before the their displacement, also teach in the school. He said the school has a population of over three thousand children, adding that the Brigade has also establish a  section of adult education  for women. Colonel Usman said the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) also assisted the Brigade with two additional tents and school bags for the pupils, while Borno State Urban Education  deployed a   Pr

Troops of 33 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have killed three armed kidnappers and destroyed their camps at DutsenTROOPS THREE ARMED KIDNAPPERS IN BAUCHI STATE  Troops of 33 Brigade of the Nigerian Army have killed three armed kidnappers and destroyed their camps at Dutsen Mairama and around Dogon Ruwa settlement within Lame/Burra forest of Toro and Ningi Local Government Areas of Bauchi State. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement that The troops also recovered arms and ammunitions including empty shells during their fighting patrols to clear the State of such criminal elements. Colonel Usman said the troops would continue to carry out such clearance operations in all known hideouts of kidnappers and armed bandits within Bauchi and other States to deny criminal elements freedom of action.  Mairama and around Dogon Ruwa settlement within Lame/Burra forest of Toro and Ningi Local Government Areas of Bauchi State. Acting Director Army Publ

African nations have to work together especially in developing their economies for the benefit of their people ahead of other forms of international cooperation. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, expressed this view while receiving the visiting Vice President of Liberia, Mr. Joseph Nyumah Boakai in his office at the Presidential Villa. According to him, "we have to help ourselves first before others come, we should look for ways we can benefit each other." Prof. Osinbajo observed that there are Nigerian business people that can invest in Liberia, suggesting the creation of a bilateral economic council that can bring business interests from both countries together. "We must engender stronger relationships between our countries, that is what Africans need," the Nigerian Vice President stated, adding that Nigeria and Liberia need to work together "to develop our economies." While noting the important task for African governments to create enabling env

The Department of State Services says it has arrested the spiritual leader to a newly uncovered Boko Haram cell in Kano State.  DSS in a statement by one of its operatives TONY OPUIYO said MUDAISIRU JIBRIN also known as NAMAKELE or ALARAMA was arrested on the seventeenth of July at Sauna quarters, Yankaba area in Kano. The statement said preliminary investigation revealed that he was also the mastermind of the shooting of some students at Government Secondary School, Mamudo village near Potiskum, Yobe State, in twenty thirteen.  The service said a notorious Boko Haram fighter, MUKHTAR TIJANI and three of his accomplices, ISIAKU SALIHU, ABDULLAHI ISAH and HINDU ISAH were also arrested last month in Kaduna State.  It alleged that they were perfecting arrangements for major coordinated attacks on selected targets and locations in Kaduna. PRESS RELEASE In furtherance to ongoing tactical and counter-terrorism operations to degrade the capabilities of crimi

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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of his Special Adviser on Planning, Ben Akabueze, as the new Director General of the Budget Office of the Federation. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, in a statement said Akabueze took over from Tijani Abdullahi who will now serve as Special Adviser to the President on Planning and will continue to work with the Minister of Budget and National Planning. He said both Akabueze and Abdullahi joined the Ministry of Budget and National Planning in February. Adesina said their redeployment was part of an ongoing exercise aimed at further repositioning the ministry to effectively deliver on its core mandate.

President Muammadu Buhari has sent a list of 47 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for its consideration and confirmation. The President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, who read the letter at the plenary said that President Buhari requested the Senate to approve the list at the shortest time possible. The nominees include: Obinna Chukwuemeka, Salisu Umoru, Iyang Udoh, Okeke Vivian, Liman Munir, Edem Jane, Mohammed Hassan, Martin Cobham, Janet Molegbo, Itegbuoye Sunday, Olatunde Adesesan and Lilian Onu. Others are: Manaja Isa, Ngozi Ukeje, Bello Husseini, Enoch Ducci, Garba Baba, Usman Aliyu, Umar Salisu, Momoh Omeiza, Kadiri Audu, Balogun Hakeem, Nosa Ahmed, Ibrahim Isa, Bankole Adeoye and Ibidapo Obe. Other nominees are: Ogundaro Sakirat, Eric Belgam, Ateru Haliru, Ramota Bulima, Musa Mamman, Kabiru Bala, Adamu Shuaibu, D. A. Agiv, T.K. Gonglong, Ibrahim Hamza, K.C. Nwachukwu and Q.R. Wolu. The list also has: E.K. Oguntuwase, A.I. Paragauda, L.A. Gasharga, Olufem

The Chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal prosecuting public officers who fail to declare their assets in law, Mr. Danladi Yakubu Umar has clarified that he was only joking with his advocacy for the return decree 2 to regulate the practice of journalism in the country. Umar said that contrary to the impression created in the media he did not advocate for the Decree to harass, intimidate or arrest journalist or any Nigerian for whatever reason. In a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Tribunal, Ibrahim Alhassan, the public was urged to regard the statement as a joke made in good faith and not to obstruct the practice of journalism in the country. “The statement by the Chairman was made out of joke, not to intimidate any member of the Fourth Estate of the Realm in this country from observing their statutory functions as mandated by the Constitution of Federal Republic of Nigeria, as anchored in liberal democratic society like ours.” The Chairman only cracked the joke

The Economic Community of West African States court has imposed a fine of $3.3mn on Nigeria over the extra-judicial killing of eight citizens in the Apo District of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. The regional court, ordered the country to pay a compensatory damage of $200,000 to each of the family of its Nigerian citizens killed and $150,000 to each of the injured by a combined team of soldiers and operatives of the Department of State Security Service (DSS) during a raid of an uncompleted building in the Apo Area. The eight Nigerians killed when the security personnel opened fire on them were later found to be commercial motorcycle riders who were taking refuge in the uncompleted building as a result of the high cost of house rent in the capital city. Those killed are Nura Abdullahi , Ashiru Musa, Abdullahi Manmman, Buhari Ibrahim, Suleiman Ibrahim, Ahmadu Musa, Nasir Adamu and Musa Yobe. Eleven others who sustained various degrees of injuries from the bullets of the soldi

PIC 1: Suspected herdsmen who attacked Nimbo community in Enugu State [From L - R: Mohammed Zurai, Ciroma Musa, Sale Adamu, Suleiman Laute, and Haruna Laute]. PIC 2: Suspected kidnappers terrorizing Kaduna State [From L - R: Idris Abubakar, Babangida Ibrahim, and Idris Mai-anguwa] POLICE RECORDS MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CRIME ·        Nabs 5 of the suspects involved in the attack on Enugu Community ·        Busts armed robbery/kidnapping syndicate  ·        Recovers stolen vehicles, weapons The Nigeria Police Force has arrested five of the suspects involved in last month’s raid on Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State. The arrest was carried out by operatives of the Inspector-General of Police’s Intelligence Response Team based on credible technical intelligence. The team, based on the intelligence gathered on the attack, arrested Mohammed Zurai, Ciroma Musa, Sale Adamu, Suleiman Laute and Haruna

The Federal Government has appointed new heads for Nigeria Television Authority (NTA), Voice of Nigeria (VON), Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN), News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) National Orientation Agency (NOA) and Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The new Chief Executives include, Mr. Ishaq Modibo Kawu who takes over as the Director-General, NBC, Mr. Yakubu Mohammed, the new Director-General, NTA and Mr. Mansur Liman, FRCN. Others are Dr. Garba Abari, who is now Director-General, NOA, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, who is the new  Managing Director, NAN and Mr. Osita Okechukwu, who is the new  Director-General, VON. The new appointees replace the Chief Executives of the parastatals who were disengaged on February 15, 2016.

The Federal High Court in Abuja has been told that no weapons was found in the Guest House of  the former National Security Adviser,  Sambo Dasuki when it was searched by the operative of the DSS last year. At the resumed trial of Dasuki on charges of unlawful possession of firearms, the government witness, Mr. Samuel Ogbu who was under cross examination confirmed no incriminating items was found in the guest house by the security agent. Ogbu who is an operative of DSS was cross-examined by counsel to Dasuki, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN) and insisted that the only weapons recovered was in the house of the Ex-NSA The witness told Justice Adeniyi Ademola that some money was found in Dasuki’s house but that he would not know whether the defendant committed money laundering offence or not because he does not know the definition of money laundering under the law. Further trial has been adjourned till June 8 and 9 2016 at the instance of Dasuki’s lawyers.

The ECOWAS Court in Abuja was today told that the security details, including soldiers attached to the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki had not been withdrawn by the federal government when his Asokoro Residence in Abuja was searched over allegations of unlawful possession of arms barely 48 hours after he left office. An operative of the Department of State Security Service (DSS), Mr. Williams Obiora confirmed to the court that a retinue of security agents mainly soldiers was still in the house of the Ex-NSA guarding him when the DSS stormed the house in search of weapons. Obiora said: "We got to the residence on the said date to discover that there were soldiers who guarded him in the house. Efforts to serve him a search warrant was resisted by the soldiers as they claimed that they couldn't access him. So, we contacted our office which liaised with the military authority who advised the soldiers to allow us in because we were there legally. Eventually

The operatives of Rapid Response Squad, RRS, have prevented a mother of four from committing suicide by jumping into the Lagoon with a 12-month old baby. The 27-year-old lady was restrained by two Response riders from plunging into the Lagoon from the top of the Third Mainland Bridge. A cab driver had drawn the attention of the RRS riders on routine patrol of the area to the lady, who was carrying a 12-month old baby at about 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday when the incidence occurred. On interrogation at the RRS Headquarters, she noted that she trekked from Medina Estate in Gbagada to the Third Mainland. She said she heard a voice calling out to her to come to the Third Mainland Bridge. She pointed out that she decided to harken to the call because it was repeated and constant call out to her. The lady also told RRS interrogator that before the incidence, she had issues with her husband before relocating to her parent’s house in Gbagada, Lagos. The lady and her bab

Nigerian troops have cleared Boko Haram terrorists out of their Njimia camp  within the Sambisa forest . The troops also cleared Boko Haram terrorists camps at Alafa, where they encountered heavy resistance from Boko Haram terrorists and killed fifteen of them. The troops continued their advance through Alafa Main, Alafa Extension and Alafa Yaga-yaga, where they cleared remnants of the Boko Haram terrorists   hibernating there before arriving at their main objective, Njimia. Apart from destroying the camps, the troops rescued forty-one hostages who were mostly women and children. Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman said the troops also recovered two Dane Guns, several vehicles, motorcycles and bicycles belonging to the terrorists. He said one significant aspect of this feat was the combination of ground forces assault, adding that the Nigerian Air Force Jets provided air support and monitoring of the operation directly by the Acting Genera

Troops of 1 Brigade Nigerian Army operating under the auspices of Operation MESA in Zamfara State, have raided suspected cattle rustlers and armed bandits camp at Yan Mangu forest, near Dandindin village, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The troops also arrested two bandits and recovered one AK-47 rifle, one AK-47 rifle magazine loaded with seven rounds of 7.62mm (Special) ammunitions, three locally made guns and one motorcycle. The Acting Director Army Public Relations, Colonel Sani Usman said in a statement said the two suspects were arrested while attempting to flee from the camps.

ECOWAS Court Orders FG To Justify Dasuki’s Detention In One Day The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court has ordered the Federal Government to justify the detention of former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki (rtd) in one day. The court also ordered the detained retired army officer to make out his case against government challenging his detention since December last year in one day. Presiding jJdge of the regional court, Justice Friday Chijioke Nwoke, gave the order in Abuja today at the resumed hearing in a legal action instituted by Dasuki to challenge his alleged unlawful detention, unlawful seizure of properties and infringement on his fundamental rights to freedom of liberty. Justice Nwoke, while ruling in a motion by Federal Government seeking to lead oral evidence against Dasuki to justify his detention, said that the regional court having granted expeditious hearing in the case of alleged abuse of fundamental ri