The #BokoHaram insurgency in the North East is being fought on many fronts. #Nigeria’s response is twofold: a kinetic & a non-kinetic response.
The kinetic is the hard-knock Operation LAFIYA DOLE; the non-kinetic is the soft-slap Operation SAFE CORRIDOR. tinyurl.com/yxrbtmgf
A former orientation camp for NYSC in Mallam Sidi, Gombe, has now become the heart of intense efforts to de-radicalise, rehabilitate & re-integrate hundreds of men who had contact with #BokoHaram insurgents. The repentant Boko Haram members who've been on the news for years.
Operation SAFE CORRIDOR is what its name says: providing repentant members of Boko Haram/Islamic in West Africa State Province a “SAFE CORRIDOR” to return to society. It is different from the amnesty programme that followed the conflict in the Niger Delta. tinyurl.com/yxrbtmgf
The “repentant” are actually former abductees of Boko Haram and terrorist suspects, and they are “clients”. tinyurl.com/yxrbtmgf
The DRR Camp has so far graduated a few of the clients in batches 2 and 3 since 2016 and a special batch in 2019. That same year, 290 more clients came on 22 November 2019. Kukawa and his son were among that number. tinyurl.com/yxrbtmgf
Read more on the "intense efforts to de-radicalise, rehabilitate and re-integrate hundreds of men who had contact with Boko Haram insurgents." icirnigeria.org/repentant-boko…
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Piecing together details of on-the-ground reporting, credible information posted online by citizens, accounts by witnesses and victims as well as information obtained from top military sources, PREMIUM TIMES can now paint a clearer picture of what happened at the #LekkiTollGate.
Fourteen-year-old Samaila Abdulrahman arrived Malkhoi Camp in 2014 tucked by the side of his aged grandmother, both saddled with all their worldly belongings after a journey of 30 kilometres from Gwoza, Borno to Yola, Adamawa State. @ProfZulumbit.ly/3k9if37
The teenager had just witnessed the death of his father who tried to flee from Boko Haram dressed as a woman. Provoked by his audacity to outsmart them with a feminine camouflage, he was killed. #LostChildhood#NorthernNigeria
FOURTEEN-yr-old Samaila Abdulrahman
witnessed the death of his father who tried to flee from #BokoHaram dressed as a woman. The insurgents killed him because he wanted to outsmart them.
Despite his loss, he wants to continue life, become a doctor, so he can help wounded people.
But #COVID19 has disrupted his plan like that of other 400, 000 children who arrived at various camps in #Maiduguri, Yobe, Gombe, and Adamawa at the ages of 8, 9, 10.
THE National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (@NafdacAgency) is being rocked by series of allegations of fraud and misappropriation of funds.
Management staff of the agency are at the centre of the allegations, which are already subject of various petitions and ongoing investigations by anti-graft agencies and an internal disciplinary panel. #NAFDACFraud icirnigeria.org/fraud-allegati…
Principal characters in the allegations include a former Director-General of the agency, Paul Orhii, a former Acting DG, Mrs Yetunde Oni, a one-time Acting DG, Ademola Mogbojuri, and the current DG, Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye. icirnigeria.org/fraud-allegati…
Only 2.8M under-five children out of a population of 32 million in Nigeria have birth certificates. According to the law establishing the birth registration scheme in Nigeria, birth registration is free, and any child not registered legally does not exist #TheICIR @NPCNigeria
ON Thursday morning, at 8:00 am, March 14th, The ICIR reporter arrived at Isiala-Mbano Primary Health Care in Osu Isiala- Mbano Local Government of Imo State, the veranda of the health centre serves as the reception, with two long benches that had turned black with age. #TheICIR
For many years, @DanaAir, a domestic airline operator in Nigeria, raised millions of naira through inflight donations to Sri Sai Vandana Foundation, an illegal organisation that was not registered until Oct 2018 after #TheICIR started its investigations into the airline’s charity
ABOUT halfway through the Lagos-Abuja @DanaAir flight, after serving snacks and beverage, a plea comes for passengers to donate to charity & a member of the cabin crew thereafter goes through the aisle, handing down envelopes to passengers that indicate interest @CPCNig #TheICIR