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Christmas : Non- Indigenes Laud Zulum For Free Transportation , Donation To Widows

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Christmas : Non- Indigenes Laud Zulum For Free Transportation , Donation To Widows 

By Francis Okoye

Non- indigenes resident in Borno have lauded the State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum for providing free transport for them to go and celebrate Christmas and new year with their loved ones, as well as donation of cash to widows for the Christmas celebration.

Over 645 persons from 10 communities comprising the Igbo, yoruba, Hausa, Tiv, Tangele, Ngas, Eggon , Igala, Ibra and Niger Delta Peoples Forum benefitted from the Zulum’s Christmas free transport scheme. 

Speaking on Friday in Maiduguri, the Zonal Coordinator of Ohanaeze APC Support Group, Chief Emmanuel Ugochukwu Egwudike (Go-Easy), said the Governor’s gesture is coming at a time when many had lost hope of travelling to celebrate the Christmas with their loved ones due economic realities facing the State and the country at large.

Chief Egwudike who is also the zonal Coordinator Northeast of Omaluegwuoku , a support group promoting the election of the All Progressives Congress ( APC ) presidential Candidate in the 2023 presidential election, Sen. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his Vice presidential running mate , Sen. Kashim Shettima, assured that the votes of all non-indigenous ethnic groups in the state will go for Zulum and other APC candidates to the upcoming election.

He noted that since the assumption of office of Governor, he has been providing free transport to non- indigenes every Christmas to travel home and at the same time giving palliative to widows who are not travelling for the celebration of the Christmas and new year.

“Come 2023 , we will support the APC from top to bottom.  We urge other Governors to emulate Zulum. About 10 communities of non- indigenes in the State benefitted from this transport scheme while 645 persons travelled with feeding allowance and return given to them. The 645 travellers began the journey to their respective homes from 20th to 23rd of this month,” Chief Egwudike said. 

Also, the President of the Niger Delta Peoples Forum in Borno State, Chief John Azimeye , described Governor Zulum as a detribalised man who is doing his best to ensure that everyone is carried along in his administration. 

“Despite the meagre resources at his disposal, he still go out of his way to provide free transport to the non- indigenes in the State to ensure that they celebrate Christmas with their loved ones. It is a wonderful gesture, we are indeed going to give him every support for him to continue the good work he is doing,” Azimeye said. 

Hon. Asiwaju Olusegun Alabi, the Secretary General Ohanaeze APC support group appreciated Governor Zulum for the wonderful gesture,  noting that it is a gesture that the Governor has been providing since 2020 to date. 

Alabi said the gesture is a clear evidence that Zulum projects are not paper projects and his promises not paper promises but reality. 

In his remarks, the President Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Borno State Chapter, Chief Sunday Okonkwo, thanked God for Governor Zulum for providing free transport to the lesprivilleged who wouldn’t have travelled if not for the gesture. 

He assured that non- indigenes in the State will work to ensure that the Governor returned for the second time to continue his good work. 

Abraham Kaanti, the President of Tiv community in the State , said the Governor has exhibited his love for the downtrodden and less privileged by this gesture. 

“So we the internal diasporas have resolved that we are going to throw our  full support to Governor Zulum’s second term bid,” he said. 

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Nigerian Air Force Neutralises Terrorists in Successful Air Interdiction at Maisani

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Nigerian Air Force Neutralises Terrorists in Successful Air Interdiction at Maisani

By: Zagazola Makama

The Nigerian Air Component of Operation Hadin Kai have executed a coordinated strike on a major terrorist enclave located at Maisani in the Timbuktu Triangle general area of Borno State, killing several ISWAP terrorists.

Intelligence sources told Zagazola Makama that the air interdiction mission conducted on May 4, 2025, at approximately 1800 hours, was informed by credible intelligence and sustained surveillance, targeted terrorists’ structures cleverly concealed and camouflaged under thick shrubs in the area.

The sources said that using advanced platforms, the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) conducted a focused Air Interdiction (AI) mission, resulting in the destruction of the identified enemy hideouts and the neutralisation of an unconfirmed number of insurgent fighters.

According to the sources, Post-strike Battle Damage Assessment (BDA) obtained from our Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms confirmed that the airstrike achieved its intended objectives, dealing a significant blow to terrorists.

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Nigeria Looks to World Bank to Tackle Challenges of National Capital Accounting

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Nigeria Looks to World Bank to Tackle Challenges of National Capital Accounting

By: Michael Mike

As the world marks the 2025 Environment Day, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has appealed to the World Bank for support on capacity building, data and in addressing the challenges poised by Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) in the country.

Head of Department, National Accounts Energy and Environment at the NBS, Dr. Baba Madu made the appeal at the 2025 Natural Capital Accounting (NCA) Conference on Thursday in Abuja with support from the World Bank in. collaboration with the NBS and the Federal Ministry of Environment.

Madu while noting that the NCA was a new area Nigeria must exploit to further boost the nation’s economy, said for Nigeria to grow and be at par with other developed nations, there was need to account for her natural resources.

He said: “NCA has been tasked with the crucial role of integrating natural capital into economic measurement. It is impossible to measure the economy accurately without accounting for natural resources. Issues such as environmental degradation, afforestation, desertification, and climate change all directly impact productivity.

“Productivity in turn, influences output—one of the core components of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). These environmental factors must be reflected across all economic activity sectors to present a more accurate picture of national output.”

While stating that Nigeria currently has data on NCA in Nigeria, the NBS official however raised concerns over the huge data gap from relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) in the environment sector.

He said: “We are not doing badly but we need to improve on what we are doing. In terms of data sources, I can tell you there’s a big gap because these are new areas needed to be exploited.”

Programme Leader on Sustainable Development at the World Bank, Vina Vutukuru, said there was need to jointly
explore the vital role of national accounting in national development plans and to brainstorm on how Nigeria could institutionalize it.

He said: “Establishing the national capital accounting as part of the national account system will allow us to measure the economic value of ecosystem services such as clean air, water and biodiversity which are essential for our well-being and economic prosperity.”

Vutukuru commended Nigeria for having “very bold ambitions” as far as responding to climate change was concerned saying, “That shows the commitment of the policy makers here towards the issue of climate.

“But I think to back up that aspiration and the aggressive goals that Nigeria has set for itself, the foundational thing for those goals to materialize those objectives to come true is a very strong natural account system.”

Head of Media, National Council on Climate Change Secretariat (NCCCS), Chioma Azie who represented her Director General, Dr. Nkiruka Maduekwe at the event, described Nigeria as a very ambitious country, stressing that natural resources was instrumental to achieving all the objective of climate action.

She said: “Technology, policy reforms, behavioral changes has a role to play but natural resources is very key because they’re underpinning the mitigation and adaptation for climate action.

“If you look at Nigeria’s NDC, the NCA is an avenue to provide raw materials that we could use to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies.

“If you look at what we have done in terms of this NDC in 2020.which is the second leg of the NDC, we identified a lot of mitigation activities within this mentioned sectors of ours. In agricultural sector we talked about smart agriculture. What is smart agriculture without natural resources?

“We talked about biomass, what is biomass without natural resources? We also spoke about land use changes and that is natural resources, we talk about natural solutions and we talked about also afforestation, reafforestation. Those are mitigation potentials of our NDC. So, we cannot achieve our NDC without SEEA.

“What you cannot be able to account for is recorded as if it is not done so if we know what is existing in terms of the reservoirs we have for natural resources, it can inform the scope of the mitigation activities we’re going to be imputing in the NDC 3.0,” she said.

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NIMC Insists All Its Verification Services, Functional, Accessible

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NIMC Insists All Its Verification Services, Functional, Accessible
.. Says Police Service Commission Not Denied Access

By: Michael Mike

The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said all its verification service platforms are functional and accessible to all partners including all security agencies.

The Commission, in a statement on Thursday by its spokesman, Dr. Kayode Adegoke said it is aware of the purported ”inability of the Police Service Commission (PSC) to access the NIMC verification server,” insisting that the “information is not only misleading but also inaccurate.”

Adegoke said: “To set the record straight, the NIMC granted verification access to all Nigerian Police formations for the verification of the National Identification Number (NIN). The NPF, PSC and other security agencies have been enjoying uninterrupted verification services for over five years.

“NIMC has provided top-notch verification services for recruitment into the Nigeria Police Force, as conducted by the PSC and at no time have there been any complaints or issues regarding NIN Verification by the NPF or PSC.”

Adegoke, in the statement, claimed that: “The Commission has a robust and harmonious working relationship with the Nigerian Police Force and the Police Service Commission. The Information Communications and Technology (ICT) department of the Nigeria Police Force is actively managing the long-standing verification and integration service between the NIMC and all Nigeria Police formations. NIMC will continue to provide flawless verification services for the purpose of recruitment, security mapping, cybercrime control, and any other security matters.”

He explained that: “The framework by which NIMC provides services to the security agencies was recently restructured for standardization and effective implementation, following consultation with the Office of the National Security Adviser, and NPF has confirmed the verification services have continued to be available. We therefore believe that any service interruption experienced by PSC may be due to internal matters.”

He promised that: “NIMC is committed to providing excellent verification services to the PSC, NPF and all its partners but the terms and conditions inherent must be adhered to for uninterrupted flow of service.”

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