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1. The Governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom, has again gone into isolation due to contact with victims of COVID-19.
Engr Benson Abounu, the State Deputy Governor, who disclosed this on Sunday, said his principal decided to go into isolation following the medical report indicating that a certain Permanent Secretary (whose name he refused to reveal) and his family members tested positive for COVID-19.
2. President Muhammadu Buhari has said religious leaders, musicians and sports personalities should be asked to take the COVID-19 vaccine on national television.
Buhari explained that Nigerians will believe in the potency of the vaccine when people like Chief Imams, Bishops, musicians and sports personalities are made to take the vaccine on national television.
[FILES] Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE have been charged to be alert, courageous and more decisive in the fight against Boko Haram Terrorists (BHTs) in North East Nigeria. Photo/Twitter/HQNigerianArmy
Troops of the newly inaugurated Operation Tura Takaibango, a subsidiary Operation of Operation Lafiya Dole, eliminated 28 Boko Haram terrorists in Gujba Local Government Area of Yobe on Saturday.
The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brig.-Gen. Benard Onyeuko, in a statement on Sunday, said the troops identified and encircled a ambush site and engaged them with superior firepower.
Onyeuko said the troops tactically out-manoeuvered the criminals and engaged them with superior firepower resulting in high casualty on the side of the terrorists.
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Nigerian Army Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have killed 50 bandits in Kuriya village of Kaura Namoda LGA of Zamfara State.
This was disclosed on Sunday in a statement signed by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche.
According to Enenche, the troops with close air support by the Air Component made contact with the bandits at Kuriya village leading to their death.
Four soldiers, however, sustained injuries.
The statement added that troops deployed at Dunya village of Danmusa LGA of Katsina State while on routine patrol also recovered hundreds of livestock from bandits who fled into the bush on sighting troops.
As part of efforts to stamp out banditry in the northwest zone, troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI have killed fifty bandits in Kuriya village of Kaura Namoda LGA of Zamfara State.
In a statement signed by the Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, the troops with close air support by the Air Component, made contact with the bandits at Kuriya village leading to their death while 4 soldiers sustained injuries with 272 livestock recovered.
The communique adds that, troops deployed at Dunya village of Danmusa LGA of Katsina State while on routine patrol also recovered 62 livestock from bandits who fled into the bush on sighting troops.