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The army detention facility’s residents in Maiduguri, the state capital of Borno State, have vowed to have the barracks immediately relocated from the area.

The facility, known as Giwa Barracks, is situated in Borno State’s Jere Local Government Area.

Residents of the communities in Maiduguri criticized the risk level they are living near the detention facility during a press briefing.

Following an explosion that rocked the army’s armory at Giwa Barracks a month ago, which caused the nearby armory and other structures to be destroyed.

Giwa Barracks has been a target of Boko Haram terrorists, according to Zannah Boguma, the leader of the Galtimari Consultative Forum.

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He continued, “Giwa Barracks has over time become a frequent target of attacks by Boko Haram insurgents, with significant incidents reported in 2014, three separate attacks in 2015, and another one in 2019 that were all aimed at releasing detained insurgents.

“In the barracks recently, there was an explosion. Thankfully, no lives were lost. This incident highlights the serious danger that over a million people in the vicinity of the barracks face daily.

Let it be made clear that we fully appreciate and support the need for a powerful military presence in our nation. However, such strategic locations shouldn’t be positioned within residential areas, especially those that house frightened civilians.

We therefore urge the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Defense Headquarters, the Nigerian Army, the governor of Borno State, and the Borno State House of Assembly to immediately and practically relocate Giwa Barracks to the outskirts of Maiduguri or to a suitable location far from dense civilian populations in the interests of public safety and strategic military effectiveness, he added.

The ongoing major renovation of two water treatment plants has caused the disruption of the supply of water in Abuja city and some satellite towns, according to Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike.

Wike made this known in a statement released on Sunday in Abuja by Lere Olayinka, his senior special assistant for public relations and social media.

He claimed that among the four facilities that produce and deliver water to FCT residents are those that are responsible for their care.

The minister claimed that the two functioning treatment plants’ water supply would be rationed for two weeks as a result of the ongoing plant rehabilitation.

Because two of the water treatment plants are still operational, what is happening is a partial but not complete shut down of the entire FCT water supply.

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SCC Nigeria Ltd. is “working 24/7 to make sure the rehabilitation is finished on time.” Therefore, residents are advised to store enough water to meet their needs during this time because the supply will be rationed, he said.

The minister assured residents that the FCT would have better water supply when the rehabilitation was finished, assuring them.

However, he claimed that residents would be temporarily able to drink water from the two newly renovated buildings while Sallah celebrations were taking place.

The FCT Water Board has four 30- 000 m3/hour water treatment plants that are divided into Phases 1, 2, 3, and 4. A contract was awarded to Messrs SCC Nigeria Ltd. as a result of the inefficiency of the plants, which are currently producing below their installed capacity.

Phases 1 and 2 have advanced in the rehabilitation works, with the replacement and reinstallation of the electro-mechanical equipment, which is the main force behind the treatment plants.

The two interconnected plants were completely shut down because of this. Phases 3 and 4 of the water treatment plants are operational but won’t support, meet, or meet the population’s needs, he claimed.

Wike claimed that the Water Board alternated between lines 1 and 2 of the distribution network to create a rationing schedule.

Femi Falana, a senior advocate for Nigerian human rights, has accused African leaders of failing to uphold the rule of law, which is a part of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

Falana also accused them of disdainfully applying the Community Court of Justice’s (ECOWAS Court) decisions.

The attorney claimed in a statement under the heading “End Disobedience of ECOWAS Courts” that the court’s record demonstrated that 154 ECOWAS member states had not been enforcing any laws as of December 2024. He claims that Nigeria has the highest number of judgments, followed by Togo and Guinea, which have 27 and 15, respectively.

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Mali (10), Sierra Leone (9), Niger (eight), Senegal (eight), Ghana (six), Benin (five), The Gambia (three), Liberia (four), Burkinabe (five), Cabo Verde (one), and Guinea Bissau (one).

The ECOWAS leaders have violated democratic principles and the rule of law without being treated with respect. Thus, there hasn’t been a constitutional change in government in the area. The leaders have disregarded the decisions of the Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court) without any legal or political justification, according to Falana.

We feel compelled to remind the ECOWAS leaders that some of their predecessors who did not uphold the court’s decisions have contacted the same court after they have left office to demand the protection of their human rights.

“These figures include Burkinabe Charles Taylor of Liberia, Laurent Gbagbo of Côte d’Ivoire, Boni Yayi of Benin, Mamadou Tanja of Niger, and Blaise Campaore of Burkinabe. A judgment has been issued in the court, according to Mr. Doe, the widow of Samuel Doe, the late Liberian warlord.

According to the SAN, who was also the former president of the West African Bar Association, each member state is required to designate a competent national authority to handle the processing of the court’s decisions.

Therefore, he demanded that President Bola Tinubu direct Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), the attorney-general, to put an end to what he termed the “unwarranted embarrassment,” and direct the Attorney-General to immediately ensure that Nigeria adheres to the Court’s decisions.

The Attorney-General and the Minister of Justice were given the task of upholding the ECOWAS Court’s decisions in 2014 as the nation’s authority.

The fact that Nigeria is at the top of the list with the most stringent unforced judgments comes at a time when the ECOWAS’s highest body, the Authority of Heads of State and Government, is at its height.

We urge President Tinubu to direct Lateef Fagbemi (SAN), the attorney-general and minister of justice, to ensure that Nigeria adheres to the ECOWAS Court’s decisions without further delay. Nigeria should be leading by example now.

President Tinubu claimed that the regional bloc had lived up to the expectations of the founders in many ways during his speech at the ECOWAS Golden Jubilee.

The 22 athletes and officials who were killed in a road accident while returning from the recently concluded National Sports Festival in Abeokuta, Ogun State, have been made a day of work-free days on June 2, 2025, according to the Kano State government.

Governor Abba Yusuf, who made the announcement, urged Kano residents to unite in prayer and grief.

The governor, who is currently in Saudi Arabia for the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage, described the incident as “a dark moment” in the state’s history, according to his spokesperson Sanusi Bature, who is currently there for the state’s annual celebration.

The governor was quoted as saying, “I received the tragic news of the unfortunate incident that claimed the lives of 22 innocent citizens and injured several others.”

He expressed his condolences to the deceased’s families, promising them that all the necessary assistance would be provided.

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We extend our heartfelt condolences over the unfortunate incident that occurred along the Kano–Zaria expressway, he said in his capacity as governor of Kano State.

The state’s contingent for the National Sports Festival included the victims, who were mostly youths.

Numerous others were hurt in the collision, and they are receiving care at various hospitals.

Governor Yusuf pleaded with religious leaders in the state and beyond to pray for the victims’ families.

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A Toyota Coaster Bus with the registration number KN041 A17 was involved in the incident, which took place on Saturday at 12:30 pm at Gadar Yankifi in the Garun Malam Local Government Area.

Ado Salisu, one of the crash’s survivors, had confirmed to journalists that the accident occurred just before the group’s scheduled arrival in Kano.

Before President Bola Tinubu’s economic reforms, a former presidential adviser, Reno Omokri, claimed that Nigeria was subsidizing the naira with staggering $1.5 billion annually, which he claimed was borrowed and “wastefully spent.”

Omokri explained that the funds used to artificially prop up the naira weren’t used to invest in important sectors like healthcare, education, or infrastructure when he spoke on Channels Television’s current affairs program Inside Sources, which aired on Sunday.

The naira was being subordinated by the Federal Government of Nigeria, which spent $1.5 billion each month. Please accept the fact that I’m lying and go back and verify that I receive $1.5 billion each month in funding the naira. And we didn’t have any money for it. We were taking out this sum of money.

We didn’t spend $1. 5 billion each month on roads, education, and healthcare. He claimed that we were using it to pay for the naira.

He claimed that the subsidies were causing unsustainable consumption patterns, including those involving imported luxury goods.

We were importing human hair for our women, and we were spending $200 million annually. According to Omokri, we were spending $ 75 million on French champagne and $ 25 million on Scotch whisky.

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Omokri defended President Tinubu’s decision to float the naira, saying that the current exchange rate, which trades at over $1,500 per dollar, accurately represents its true value without interference from the government.

The naira is now 1 1 560 to the dollar, not because Bola Tinubu was a bad president, the statement goes. No. He claimed that because he stopped subsidizing it and started floating the naira.

The naira was not properly valued under previous administrations, including that of former president Muhammadu Buhari and when he served under former president Goodluck Jonathan, he continued.

When the naira was between $1 and $1, I served as the president’s spokesman. The naira was then being supported. What you were seeing as a Nigerian wasn’t the real value, Omokri claimed.

Omokri praised Tinubu’s fiscal and trade reforms, noting that they have had the same impact as a trade surplus and a reduction in the national debt.

The debt profile for President Tinubu was $ 108 billion. Our current debt is $94 billion. It has decreased by $14 billion. Therefore, it is impossible to describe someone like that as a debtor. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, he stated, has far outperformed the expectations of most honest Nigerians.

He has increased our trade surplus, he claims. Prior to this, we didn’t even have a trade surplus. Nigeria was the top importer of gasoline in Africa when this man arrived. We are not at this time. We are now largely overtaken by South Africa. He claimed that we are now West Africa’s top exporter of gasoline.

Hardship still exists in the land, but Nigeria is not wealthy.

Omokri acknowledged the suffering but insisted that it was a necessary sacrifice for long-term stability when asked whether the Tinubu administration’s economic reforms had increased the hardship faced by regular Nigerians.

There is still a lot of suffering in the land, the author writes. Nigeria is not wealthy. Therefore, you can’t complain and say, “Well, I’m suffering,” if your father is not wealthy and you are. No. Your father is not wealthy. He claimed that Nigeria is a resource-poor nation.

He added that the president’s decision to float the naira has begun to benefit the local economy’s structurally.

President Bola Tinubu did what was successful in Vietnam, which is the reason why we now have a trade surplus. He has inflated the price of imports, leaving Nigerians with no choice but to purchase products made there.