A total of 1, 934, 765 displaced persons are currently living in formal camps, and satellite camps in liberated communities as a result of the insurgency in the north eastern state. According to Saad Bello, the Yola Camp Coordinator in Adamawa State, Borno has 19 camps with 150, 858 IDPs; Yobe has nine camps with 31, 988 IDPs and Adamawa four camps with 6, 937 IDPs.

ZBB Requirements
THE starting point in the preparation of Zero Based Budget is for the government to clearly define its key policy thrust. They are the pillars and foundation for any budget preparation and interpretation. These policy thrust must be well articulated and understood by all the people involved in the budget process including the NASS.

The nation’s minerals sector lost out in the $1.2 billion invested by foreign companies in minerals exploration on the continent last year, by failing to attract the international big players in the industry.

Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Tuesday, declined to suspend further hearing on the six-count treason charge pending against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.

The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, has directed all Assistant Inspectors-General of Police and commissioners of police to arrest anybody found selling petroleum products in plastic containers.

ABUJA — Managing Director of the World Bank, Mrs Sri Indrawati, arrived Abuja, yesterday, to discuss the assistance of the global body towards rebuilding the nation’s North-East Region.

Niger Delta militant group, Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, which claimed responsibility for the February 14, explosion that rocked a Forcados pipeline, is threatening to battle the Nigerian Navy over its ban on the use of 200 Horse Power outboard engines on speed boats in the region.

lagos—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has struck the preliminary objection by the Attorney-General of the Federation, AGF, in a suit by B-Courtney Services Ltd., seeking to prevent the Federal Government from rehabilitating or reconstructing the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Enugu — The people of Ugbene in Alor-Uno, Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State have lamented over what they described as “man’s inhumanity to man” in the area and appealed to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi to protect them from their neighbours, the people of Ejuona.

HEALTH experts in Nigeria have said that the recurrent Lassa fever outbreak in Nigeria is akin to a national embarrassment and that it will be no exagerration to describe it as a national tragedy. Expressing dissatisfaction, the Chairman, Lassa Fever Control Committee in Nigeria, Prof. Oyewale Tomori, who is President of the Nigeria Academic of Science, NAS, observed that Lassa fever that has been claiming lives over the past 47 years without concrete strategies to bring it under control, can only be referred to as a continuous national tragedy.