President Umaru Yar‘Adua ordered a military operation in the area to apprehend some militants suspected to have murdered 12 members of Joint Task Force, including a Lt. Colonelon April 13. Yar‘Adua had ordered that the killers of the military personnel must be found dead or alive.

In defiance of the “no-jerry can” order imposed in filling stations, fuel pump attendants brazenly flout this order, filling hundreds of the containers to some street boys working for them. Right Across the street, instead of selling a litre for say, N70 as at Thursday, it was sold for N400 per litre to desperate buyers.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has impounded drugs worth over N100million in Kano within the last 3 weeks, and hounded into custody 17 suspected peddlers.

The FRSC has said 133 Nigerians died in 33 auto accidents which occurred across the country between Dec.18 and Dec.24.

The Catholic Archdiocese of Owerri Ecclesiastical Province has distributed some items of food and made cash donations worth thousands of Naira to over 500 destitute and physically challenged citizens in the state.