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Over 1,000 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) barricaded the headquarters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), requesting both parties to pick their presidential candidates for the 2023 general elections from the southern part of the country. The protesters, under the auspices of the Coalition of Civil Society Groups in Nigeria (CCSG), displayed banners and chanted solidarity songs in Abuja, insisting that heeding the call would save the nation from possible instability. The CSOs do not intend to undermine the right of political parties or party's constitution by making the patriotic call, maintaining that they deem it a worthy sacrifice and a patriotic love for the country if political parties could jettison all other interests and ambition for the peace, unity and stability of the nation's democracy.

The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) has claimed that $15 billion has been squandered through fraudulent arms procurement deals in the last 20 years, allowing groups like Boko Haram to thrive. However, troops of 5 Brigades and Sector 3 Joint Task Force of Operation Hadin Kai have killed three terrorists at an illegal border market in Borno State, recovering an AK-47 rifle, a truck, two motorcycles, four empty magazines and rounds of ammunition. The Northern States Governors' Forum (NSGF) has expressed appreciation for the Federal Government's approval to deploy Super Tucano fighter jets against bandits, while the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, has condemned the recent killings in Zamfara State as horrific and tragic.