The President of CAN, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, commiserated with them in a statement signed by Pastor Adebayo Oladeji, the Special Assistant, Media and Communications to the CAN president on Tuesday in Abuja.
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Fortune Obi, the Public Relation’s Officer of PENGASSAN in a message to celebrate Nigeria’s Independent, said in Lagos that the country was bedevilled with many challenges.
Sam Ego, the State Commandant of the corps, said this at a news conference on Saturday in Asaba.
Human rights group, Global Amnesty Watch, has urged the Federal Government to adopt a total clampdown on fleeing elements of terrorist group, Boko Haram sect.
Khorsa, who worked for the Red Cross, was kidnapped about six months ago at the Rann camp for Internally Displaced Persons in Borno by Boko Haram terrorists.
Awogu told the News Agency of Nigeria in Awka on Sunday that most electricity installations in the area had been submerged due to incessant rains.
Osuntokun said this in a statement in reaction to an earlier one by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, accusing him of false information on Boko Haram killings during the End-Adha celebration
Sharibu was held back for refusing to denounce Christianity, while the others were brought home to their parent by the Boko Haram insurgents.
The police had initially put the death toll at 19, but the Red Cross said on their official Twitter page that the accident had “claimed over 40 lives”.
According to UNHCR said 34 other people were injured when a convoy of eleven buses transferred 837 refugees from a transit centre to another part of the country.
Pamela Ongoma, an official of ICRC in Adamawa, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen in Yola on Wednesday.
The night attack claimed lives of innocent citizens, including humanitarian workers of the United Nations, Red Cross and International Organisation for Migration
“We will no longer be able to resolve these fates,’’ Thomas Huber, head of the Red Cross’s tracing service, said in Munich.
The Controller-General of the NPS, Ahmed Ja’afaru, declared open the four-day workshop for the officers on Monday in Abuja.
Their partnership aims to holistically address, through innovative interventions, the economic plight of communities affected by armed conflict or violence.
The two were abducted on February 8 while delivering assistance in Jawzjan province, in the north of the country, on the border with Turkmenistan
It said that the situation had caused the people living in the region to rush from Nepal to India and Bangladesh.
“We still have hope to find survivors but the chances are getting smaller every day,” Red Cross Secretary-General Ehadj Sy said on Friday.
Police and military personnel were at the scene in the mountain town of Regent searching for people trapped in the debris.
Red Cross spokesman, Abu Tarawallie, said by telephone that the death toll is expected to rise as more bodies are recovered.