As many as 511 Boko Haram terrorists have surrendered together with their families with the Nigerian Army also rescuing one Chibok girl during an operation carried out in the North-East region.

Another Chibok schoolgirl Saratu Dauda has been rescued by the Nigerian troops from Boko Haram captivity.

I know Kashim Shettima, the vice president-elect of Nigeria, but not well enough to say much about him beyond my single physical encounter with the man, and a few telephone calls later, in the course of a story that must be told, not for any political reasons, but because it will throw a little light on the persona of the man.

No fewer than 2,167 repentant insurgents have graduated from the Operation Safe Corridor’s (OPSC) Deradicalisation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration (DRR) programme, organised by the Federal Government, an official has said.

Troops of 151 Task Force Battalion, Operation Hadin Kai (OPHK), have neutralised 47 Boko Haram terrorists and recovered three Hilux vehicles in Sambisa Forest of Borno State.

The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has faulted the move by the federal government to conduct the 2023 national census at the tail end of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The mainstream Yoruba group pointedly emphasised that the insistence of the government to conduct the exercise indicated insensitivity to the plight of Nigerians, particularly with the…