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The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has opened up to the processes leading to the safe return of schoolchildren of Kuriga abducted earlier in the month. In a statement made available to newsmen, DHQ said, the abducted Kuriga students were rescued through a coordinated rescue operation by the military in collaboration with local authorities and government agencies. The primary and secondary school students, abducted on March 7, were rescued in the early hours of Sunday. In a statement on Sunday, Edward Buba, director of defence media operations, said a total of 137 persons comprising 76 females and 61 males were rescued in…

The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the deaths of six officers killed while investigating the disappearance of three colleagues in Delta State. The Force’s Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday. Adejobi added that six other officers are still missing and five suspects have been arrested in connection with the killings. The statement partly read, “The Nigeria Police Force is profoundly saddened by the devastating loss of six courageous officers in Delta State who exhibited exceptional valour in the face of adversity. “These brave officers tragically fell victim to a cowardly ambush by armed…

.. Launches sale of N500 per litre subsidised petrol to farmers… .. Distributes fertiliser, others to 4,500 farmers… …Shifting focus from food distribution to empowering farming activities… Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Friday unveiled a 90-horsepower capacity solar irrigation pump station in Damasak located in the northern part of the state. The pumping station, with a combined 90 HP capacity, has a 115 Kilowatt solar farm powering three units of 30HP pumps, discharging 225 litres per second with 105 discharge points covering 125 hectares of rice fields. Zulum said that his administration was shifting its focus from continuous…

Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum, has disbursed N255,650,000 cash and 5,513 bags of 50kg rice to members of the Civilian JTF and hunters fighting Boko Haram insurgents alongside the security forces. Zulum performed the distribution at the Multipurpose Hall of the Government House in Maiduguri, on Wednesday. About 5,523 CJTF and hunters operating within Maiduguri and Jere, comprising those on government payroll and the volunteers received the governor’s package. Each of the 4,513 that received monthly pay from the government was given a bag of 50kg rice and N50,000 cash. While 1,000 volunteers each got a bag of 50kg…

The Periscope Global In a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday, 19th March, 2024, Senator Said Ahmed Alkali, Minister of Transportation, heralded a new era of environmentally friendly and cost-effective transportation within the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT) in Abuja played host to the prestigious Nigerian Army Fleet Auto Switch and Training Flag-Off Ceremony, marking a significant stride towards the adoption of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as an alternative fuel. Under the auspices of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative Pilot Programme, this initiative stands as a testament to the Federal Government’s commitment to overcoming the challenges presented by…

Governor Babagana Umara Zulum said that Borno State is working towards attaining food sufficiency and the export of cash crops and other farm products such as maize and cassava, among others. “Let’s carefully put things in order. Borno State will start exporting sesame and other cash crops in the near future,” Zulum said. The governor stated this on Tuesday at the Koiri irrigation farm, one of the pilot drip irrigation schemes of his administration. The Koiri scheme, covering about 20 hectares of land, aims to produce 364 tons of maize and sesame in one crop cycle. With three cycles per…

…Invites the general public… The Periscope Global The Muslims Lawyers’ Association of Nigeria, MULAN, Adamawa state said everything is set for its maiden public Ramadan lecture to hold on Saturday, March 23, 2024, at Bawuro Hall, City Green Hotel, opposite Federal College of Education, FCE Yola. Speaking to the Periscope Global, MULAN spokesman El-kabir Auwal Esq, revealed that the lecture to be delivered by Sheikh (Dr.) Abdullahi Bala Lau, National Chairman, Jama’atu Izalatil Bid’ah Wa Iqamatus Sunnah, JIBWIS, and Dr. Abdulrahman Nasir would explore the virtues of Ramadan in overcoming the contemporary economic and security challenges in Nigeria. The Judges…

By Bernard Davidson The attempts by Nnamdi Kanu and members of his legal team to rigmarole around the Supreme Court judgment which upheld continued prosecution against him for treasonable charges, is laughable. Not that I outrightly criticise his lawyers for wanting their cut from the levies in dollars, pound sterling and naira collected from brainwashed vulnerable contributors across the globe, but I expected a more circumspect Kanu. I feel gobsmacked on his behalf over the fact that he is being outwitted by his team of ‘respected’ counsels. They know that his battle is a lost one. Yet, they urge him…

…A condolence to the entire Belel Family, Community, MAUTH Yola… Adamu Muhammad Dodo Innalillah WA Inna Ilaihirraji’uun! It is two years of endurance, mourning my spouse Halimah who transited to great beyond hours after child birth, on 9th of the month of Ramadan 1443 AH (April 10, 2022). The blessed baby left behind who takes after her mother – Halimah Jnr – is now two healthy and hearty years, in God’s name. As we kept mourning in supplications with the seniors’ to Halimah Jnr, seeking for continued forgiveness from Allah SWT and to grant the wife and mother eternal rest…

The Periscope Global Accreditation and quality assurance committee led by Prof Auwal Muhammad Abubakar and Dr Ali Danburam visited the colleges of health technology across the state. The committee is constituted following the growing proliferation of private health institutions in the state and the outcry that greeted the sealing of some of the health institutions due to operational standards limitations. As its term of reference, the committee is to confirm the accreditation status, assess the sitations, structures and general teaching and learning facilities in addition to genuine staff strength. The bottomline is to address challenges associated with quackery in healthcare…