They were brought into the country on Tuesday through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos
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It was gathered that the returnees will be received at the MMIA Cargo Terminal by 4pm
Onimode said this on Tuesday in Abuja when he led a delegation to the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa
Officials from National Emergency Management Agency and the Borno State Emergency Management Agency confirmed the evacuation of the bodies of the professor, a child and two bombers to he mortuary
The Coordinator of NEMA for Adamawa and Taraba States Operation Office, Sa’ad Bello, confirmed the development to the News Agency of Nigeria
The convener made this known while marking the Global Week of Action to mark 1,000 days of the abduction of Chibok Girls in their school on April 14, 2014
In a statement by the Senior Special Assistant on Media to the President, Malam Garba Shehu, Buhari was said to have directed the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to take decisive actions against the perpetrators of the violence
Two girls, believed to be in their teens, bore the explosives
The 140 returnees were made up of 74 adult females, 52 adult males, one female child, two male children, three female infants, two male infants and six unaccompanied kids, out of which five are female and one male
In a statement issued by Sani Datti, the Head of Media and Public Relations, in Abuja, NEMA said the cause of the blast, which occurred at about 11am, had yet to be ascertained
He also said that the number of displaced persons was less than a million in 2016 compared to 2.3 million persons in 2012 and that less than 100 people died in 2016 as against 360 persons in 2012
NEMA’s North East Coordinator, Alhaji Muhammad Kanar, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Maiduguri that arrangements for the IDPs to return home became necessary following the gradual return of peace to Borno State
According to Datti, a published report on humanitarian relief intervention by the Agency reveals that the Republic of Chad hosts about 20,804 Nigerian refugees, 80,709 in Cameroon and 138, 321 in Niger Republic
The North West Zonal Coordinator, Musa Ilalah made the call on Tuesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna.
According to him, there is usually no warning when fire outbreak may occur but experience has shown that incidences of fire are more during the dry season
Meanwhile said PRNigeria gathered that the response team is being alerted to another explosion along Customs Road, close to Muna Garage, also in Maiduguri
In a press statement signed by Bisi Kazeem, the Head Media Relations and Strategy of the FRSC, Oyeyemi said this in reaction to the multiple crashes that occurred on the outward bound lane of the of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in the wee hours of Wednesday
He said that no fewer than 7,297 from Konduga, 12,517 from Mafa and 1,936 from Dikwa had willingly returned to their liberated communities
The explosions occurred on Saturday morning, with many feared dead
While NEMA said eight persons died, the police put the death toll at five with many injured
This is coming at a period Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, and a team of NEMA North East zonal staff led by Zonal Coordinator, Alhaji Muhammed Kanar, spent the night in Bama in order to fast track the reconstruction of homes and other structures to facilitate the return of residents displaced by insurgency