The National Identity Management Commission on Monday announced that it had registered about 900 repentant Boko Haram members. According to the commission, reliable and secured data of repentant and reintegrated members of Boko Haram were provided by the NIMC through the Operation Safe Corridor Advisory Committee. The Director-General, NIMC, Aliyu Aziz, described the commission as a strategic partner in the effort at tackling the security challenges in the country. He was quoted in a statement issued by the commission in Abuja as saying, “The commission has the capacity to support the Federal Government in the ongoing war against security challenges…
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Multiple airstrikes by the Air Component of the Operation Hadarin Daji have destroyed bandits’ camps located in a forest along the Katsina, Zamfara states boundary area, the Nigerian Military has disclosed. Scores of the bandits were also neutralised in the attack which were conducted under the subsidiary Operation Accord. A statement by the Coordinator Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, revealed that the attack followed series of intelligence which indicated that some cluster of huts in the target area were used as mini-camp by the bandits. According to the statement, “in continuation of the renewed offensive to rid the…
The 20th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria has approved 160 and above as the national minimum benchmark for admission for the year 2020 into public universities. The meeting held virtually, on Tuesday, also approved 140 as minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination score for admission into private universities. For public polytechnic, 120 UTME score was approved, while 100 was approved for Colleges of Education, innovative enterprises and institutes. During the meeting, JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, urged tertiary institution heads not to increase admission screening charges above N2000.
The immediate past Governor of Oyo State, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, has remained Covid-19 positive two weeks after being admitted at the First Cardiologist and Cardiovascular Consultants Hospital, Lagos. Ajimobi’s wife, Florence, was however, discharged from hospital earlier. The PUNCH learnt that Ajimobi, who is the Deputy National Chairman (South) of the All Progressives Congress, had been hospitalised since June 2, 2020. He was said to have been confirmed positive and was managing the situation at home before the illness worsened and he had to go to a hospital. A source close to the family said the former governor had an underlying…
German top government official, Helge Braun, on Tuesday, said the country’s coronavirus contact tracing app that had been made available for download in Germany was a cut above the rest. Braun, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Chief of Staff, said that the German track-and-trace app, the use of which was voluntary, was not the first of its kind, but the best in terms of privacy and data protection. He called on members of the public to download the app, developed by the government, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for disease control and several private companies. “Downloading and using it is a small…
Ondo Governor Rotimi Akeredolu has declared his is ready for any form of primary his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) adopts. Akeredolu spoke with State House Correspondents on Tuesday after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Asked if he was confident of winning the party primaries, the Governor said he was sure God would give him victory. Akeredolu said he was in the State House to tell Buhari he was running for re-election and to present his Expression of Interest forms to him. Details shortly…
Godwin Obaseki, governor of Edo State, has resigned his membership of the All Progressives Congress after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari. Obaseki was last Friday disqualified by the APC from contesting the forthcoming governorship primary of the party in Edo over alleged discrepancies in his certificates. He is expected to announce his move to the Peoples Democratic Party any moment from now.
A retired soldier, Sapper Olusegun Soetan, has lamented that he and his colleagues from the South-West have not been paid their pensions after fighting in the 1967-1970 civil war. Soetan, who said he was among the first intakes into the Nigerian Army in 1963, said he and his colleagues either voluntarily retired or were discharged between 1978 and 1992 in accordance with a military’s regime circular, No.4/1977, dated March 30, 1997. He said though the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), was aware of their case and had directed that they should be paid, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen.…
The Federal Government on Monday warned state governments that were planning to reopen schools to drop the plan. The Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, gave the warning during the PTF press briefing in Abuja. Mustapha said it was not yet safe to reopen schools, television viewing centres, stadiums and other places where large gatherings could take place. Last week, Kano State reopened football viewing centres. There were reports on Monday that Cross River State, which had yet to record any COVID-19 case, was planning to reopen…
The Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, on Monday, ordered the release of the security aides to the First Lady, Aisha Buhari, four days after they were taken into custody over a shooting incident at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The incident sparked concern that the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) might be in danger. But the Presidency assured in a statement that Buhari was never in danger at any time. The cops, including Aisha’s Aide-de-Camp, CSP Usman Shugaba; the escort commander, DSP Sheriff Kazeem and four riot policemen, were detained last Friday. They were directed to return for further interrogation…