Index to Nigerian Newspapers

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) reports that 3.3 million people are now internally displaced in Nigeria as a result of numerous crises. Finda Koroma, vice president of the ECOWAS Commission, stated at a stakeholder workshop on the "Best practises for stabilisation in West Africa" that the subregion needed to address the challenge of displacement. For instance, the Militant Islamist group has displaced 1.2 million people in Burkina Faso. Additionally, Boko Haram's brutal attacks in the North East have forced about 2.5 million Nigerians to flee their homes. We must devise a strategy to enable these communities to return to their houses. We established the ECOWAS fund for regional stabilisation and development in weak member states in collaboration with the German government.This program's goals are to stabilise areas that have experienced a war by giving those areas access to critical services and sustainable economic possibilities, as well as by building or renovating important national infrastructure.

According to a Daily Trust poll, the current Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) scarcity has subsided in and around the FCT.Due to the closure of several filling stations last week, which created an artificial shortage and lengthy lines of cars at the stations, it was not the best week for automobile owners in the FCT.Few filling stations were spotted pouring the stuff last week in and around the FCT, each with one or two pumping machines and lengthy lines.Experts blamed panic purchasing and stockpiling in anticipation of the elimination of subsidies, which the federal government eventually halted, for the gasoline shortage.

Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved N1 billion for the training of basic-level teachers across 27 local government areas of the state. The governor announced the approval during the inauguration of newly appointed local government education secretaries in Maiduguri. Over 1,000 teachers with O-Level certificates will undergo additional training to attain minimum teaching qualifications. The training will cover teachers who do not have teaching qualifications but are found to be trainable based on competency tests. Zulum has charged the newly appointed education secretaries to live up to expectations and warned that those found to be underperforming will be replaced. He also allocated 58 utility vehicles to the education secretaries.