Some of the soldiers made the call in Maiduguri on Saturday in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria at a workshop organised by the commission in partnership with United Nations High Commission for Refugees.
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The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that President Muhammadu Buhari has recently approved the recruitment of 6,000 policemen to beef-up security nationwide.
The NAF’s Director of Public Relations and Information, AVM. Olatokunbo Adesanya, who confirmed this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the air operation was carried out on Thursday.
Alhaji Sabo Abdu, the Permanent Secretary, Establishment, Office of the State Head of the Civil Service, gave the directive in a statement issued in Dutse.
The highly authoritative newspaper said the journalist went into hiding after he was invited for questioning in relation to the video by the Kano State Police Command
It turned out that the contractor did a shoddy job, as the footbridge gave way under the weight of dignitaries and villagers who had trooped out to celebrate the august event
The incident was the latest in a long series of deadly shootings at US schools in recent years.
Flight tracking websites indicate the plane departed at mid-morning local time, and it reportedly crashed shortly after
Obi decried the subsisting situation as “the lack of treating education with the seriousness it deserves by classifying money spent on it as expenditure rather than investment”
The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, made this known at a news conference in Abuja where he gave details of the findings of the 10-member panel the Army constituted to probe the allegations.
Osinbajo made the disclosure on Friday during a visit to Kiara De-Luke Multi-Skill and Entrepreneurship Centre, an N-Power training centre at Umuobiakwa in Obingwa Local Government Area of Abia.
“The mutiny occurred in Fenix prison in the north-western region of Lara overnight,’’ Carlos Nieto from a non-governmental organization, Una Ventana a la Libertad, said.
The Emir made the call on Friday in Lafia, when NASIEC Chairman, Henry Omaku, visited him.
Akingbola is a former Managing Director of the defunct Intercontinental Bank Plc.
This is contained in a statement signed by Nick Dazang, INEC’s Administrative Secretary for Kaduna State and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna.
Agim made the appeal on Friday in Makurdi during the maiden press briefing to announce the achievements of the Special Military Operation for Benue, Taraba and Nasarawa states, code named “Operation Whirl Stroke”.
AMCON said the takeover followed an injunction granted by Justice M.S. Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos against Sea Petroleum Oil & Gas Ltd.
They are the latest international body to up the pressure on the East African nation since 19-year-old Noura Hussein was sentenced to death by a Sudanese court earlier this month.
Osinbajo said this in Enugu on Friday during the inauguration of one of the facilities for the training located at the Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company complex, Emene.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the institution was shut on Tuesday following sustained protests by the students over the management’s “no school fees no examination’’ directive.