Since 2021, Northeast Connection promoted nonviolent conflict resolution from the grassroots to state government levels in Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states. The activity provided over $2.1 million in small grants to almost 40 local organizations to strengthen local civil society capacity and promote local solutions to violence.
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The President noted that the threat of terrorism was the most critical security challenge inherited by his regime but expressed delight that normalcy had returned to affected states in the North-East.
The President, who issued the directive on the occasion of World Humanitarian Day 2022, affirmed Government’s commitment to reducing the effect of disasters, climate change, insurgency and challenges of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).
This followed the adoption of a motion of urgent public importance, sponsored by the Chairman House Committee on Navy, Hon. Yusuf Gagdi.
Amazing and confounding because what the Buhari government does daily in the North-east, North-west, and North-central parts of the country, where terrorists and bandits abound, is send them to God to answer for their crimes.
Buratai gave the assurance on Wednesday when he visited the Emir of Biu, Alhaji Mustapha Umar Mustapha, in his palace.
This is coming as the key actors gathered to discuss coordinated response to humanitarian and development efforts in the region.
Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, expressed the resolve of the Federal Government to lift 90 million Nigerians currently living in poverty across the country.
A signed pair of Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves belonging to a British family he befriended on a visit to the North East in 1977 are among memorabilia expected to fetch up to £15,000 at auction.
The call was made in Abuja in a report of preliminary findings submitted to the leaderships of NASS after investigation on allegations of human rights abuse made against the Nigerian military by some foreign media organisations.
Buratai disclosed this at the opening of the Chief of Army Staff, Combined 2nd and 3rd Quarters Conference on Tuesday in Abuja.
The Federal Government has commenced aerial spray of pesticides to control invasion of Quelea birds in North East Nigeria, an official of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has confirmed.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, said this during his operational visit to NAF 115 Special Operations Group in Port Harcourt on Saturday.
The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Saddique Abubakar, said the military had substantially contained emerging banditry in some parts of the country in addition to the successes recorded in the fight against insurgency in the North East.
The Peoples Democratic Party has called on the National Assembly to immediately open an inquest into the shocking report by the Wall Street Journal asserting the secret burial of 1,000 Nigerian soldiers allegedly killed in the anti-insurgency war in the North East.
A statement by Col. Onyema Nwachukwu, Director of Defence Information, on Thursday in Abuja, said that such insinuation could only emanate from an uninformed position.
Speaker, House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Tuesday, reiterated the commitment of the National Assembly to supporting the current efforts at addressing the humanitarian crises caused by Boko Haram insurgency in the North-East.
The Bank of Industry says it has introduced rehabilitation loan for entrepreneurs in the North East devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency.
The UN Population Fund says more than 2.3 million girls and 1.6 million women need reproductive health services in the North East of Nigeria
The Nigeria Association of Women Journalists said on Tuesday it would partner the Nigerian Army in peace building process in the North East as normalcy gradually returns to the zone.