FG launches infrastructure programme to tackle insurgency

Nigeria Federal Government launched a $10 billion infrastructure programme on Thursday in its restive Delta region as part of a plan to end an insurgency that has hobbled oil production. President Muhammadu Buhari will meet representatives of militant groups and community leaders from the Niger Delta in Abuja next week in a bid to end […]

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Abubakar Malami

FG promises to address causes of Insecurity in Nigeria

Federal government Tuesday said it was working unearth the root causes of insurgency and agitation in parts of the country with a view to addressing them, The Nation reports. The Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) gave this assurance Tuesday while addressing aggrieved lawyers, who were in his […]

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Army establishes Motorbike Battalion

The Army yesterday unveiled a motorbike battalion to add impetus to its war on insurgency in the Northeast. Simultaneously, it released a fresh list of 100 suspected members of the terror sect, Boko Haram, wanted for various act of terrorism in the country. It also opened the Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu, one of the major highways in the […]

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‘No Local Council in Nigeria is held under insurgency,’ Says Pres. Buhari

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday played host to the visiting German President, Joachim Gauck, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Declaring that none of the 774 local government areas in Nigeria is under the control of the insurgents, Boko Haram. The Senator representing Borno Central, according to The Nation, Baba Kaka Garbai had recently claimed that […]

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