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By Michael Olugbode The new Service Chiefs arrived Maiduguri on Sunday afternoon to meet critical stakeholders and brainstorm on strategies to end the protracted Boko Haram insurgency. The Service Chiefs who were appointed few days ago by President Muhammadu Buhari were led on the visit by the Chief of Defence Staff, Major General Lucky Irabor. They torched down at the headquarters of Air Task Force of Operation Lafiya Dole in Maiduguri on Sunday afternoon at about 1330 hours. With the Chief of Defence were Chief of Army Staff, Maj. General Ibrahim Attahiru; Chief of Naval Staff, AVM Awwal Ga...

By Michael Olugbode The induction of newly posted Nigerian ambassadors and their spouses have been scheduled for between February 8 and 10, 2021. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, Wednesday said the induction would prepare them for the task ahead. According to the statement, “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform that the induction course for Career and Non-Career Ambassadors-Designate and their spouses has been scheduled for 8th – 10th February, 2021. “Following the approval of the posting of Career and Non-...

By Michael Olugbode The Presidents of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have expressed concern over growing terrorism and piracy violation in West Africa sub-region. They also called on member nations to pay up their commitments to the fund set aside to fight terrorism in West Africa. A communique issued yesterday after the 58th Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the ECOWAS, which was held on January 23, 2021 via videoconference, under the chairmanship of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana, stated that the act of terrorist at...

By Michael Olugbode The police in Yobe State has declared that the girl who died after sex bout at the state government lodge was as a result of drug overdose. The police in a statement issued yesterday by the state Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Dungus AbdulKareem, said the case against the four suspects arrested in connection with the crime was no longer homicide. AbdulKareem said the deceased died of cardio-respiratory failure resulting from excessive use of drugs. The statement read: “On January 7, 2021, at about 0700hrs, the Yobe State Police Command apprehended four suspec...

Michael Olugbode in Maiduguri Nigerian troops have eliminated five suspected Boko Haram members and got many more injured during a battle for Damboa in Borno State. A statement yesterday by the Acting Director Defence Media Operations, Brig. Gen. Benard Onyeuko claimed that: “Troops of Operation TURA TAKAIBANGO a subsidiary Operation of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in the North East continue to obliterate elements of Boko Haram/Islamic State’s West Africa Province criminals with uncommon ferocity as they overrun Abbagajiri and Dusula towns in Damboa.” It said that the latest encounter with the...