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Officers of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command, on Thursday night, quelled a violent protest that erupted following the alleged killing of a fashion designer by an operative of the Department of State Services who shot intermittently and injured several people. One of our correspondents gathered that a customer brought the DSS official to the victim’s shop for allegedly failing to deliver some clothes on an agreed date. A trader in the market, who did not want her name in print for fear of being victimised, said some of the fashion designer’s colleagues, who learnt about the incident, intervened but their interference did not go down well with the DSS operative. She noted that the operative was arrested and detained by the police after he allegedly shot and killed the fashion designer. Responding to the development in a statement, the spokesperson for the FCT Police Command, SP Josephine Adeh said, In an incident at Garki International Market on September 7, 2023, an altercation arose between market occupants and certain individuals, including a DSS personnel and a tailor named Muhammad Habibu. The Garki Divisional Police station mobilised officers in response to a received distress call reporting the invasion of the market by these individuals, who fired shots at a tailor known as Mubarak Mubarak. However, in a statement, the spokesperson for the DSS, Peter Afunanya, said the secret police was investigating the matter.

The Fedes for N6.9bn procurement fraud at the federal capital Terriotory high court, maitama, Abuja. Emefile will be arraignment and mention. Emefiele will be arraigned along a female CBN emral Government will on thursday arraign the suspended central bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefile and his asocsiateployee, sa'adatu yaro and her company , April 1616 investment limited on 20 charges of procurement fraud, consipracy and conferring corrupt advantages on his associates. Emefiele, who had been in detention since he was accused of conferring corrupt advantages on yaro a director in april 1616 investment ltd.  Emefiele s'associate the ex-CBN governor was said to have conspired with yaro to confer corrupt advantages on the CBN staffer by awarding to her a contract for the supply of two toyora hilux shell specification vehichles.

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The National Deputy President of the Trade Union Congress, Tommy Etim, has criticized the Federal Government's attempt to prevent the Organised Labour from launching an indefinite nationwide strike. Etim stated that labour leaders would not be threatened and would be willing to face imprisonment for their fight for better lives for Nigerian workers.

The military high command says it has discovered destroyed no fewer than 23 illegal crude oil refeneries and arrested 60 suspected oil thieves in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence media operation media operations , maj. Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this on wednesday during miltary biweekly press briefing in Abuja. There has been increased clampdown on i oil theft in recent times following  a directive by president Bola Tinubu to security agencies to crush oil theft.Troops equally destroyed 22 illegal refining sites, 15 wooden boats, 34storage tanks, 96 ovens, and 16 dugout pits , while a total of 60 suspected criminals were apprehended within the period.'the burning of the vesssel drew criticisms from some quarters with the House  of Representatives, on Tuesday cautioning the military and other security agencies to desist from burning vessels with nstolen crude.Reacting to the criticisms while fielding question from journalists on Thursday Buba said the burning of the vessel was in line with militarys' standard operating procedure on stolen crude oil.

The military high command says it has discovered and destroyed no fewer than 23 illegal crude oil refeneries and arrested 60 suspected oil thieves in the last two weeks. The Director, Defence media operations, Maj. Gen Edward Buba, disclosed this on  wednesday during miltary's biweekly press briefing in Abuja. there has been increased clampdown on oil theft in recent times following a directive by president Bola Tinubu to security agencies to crush oil theft. the military spokesman said ,Troops of operation Delta safe recovered 367200 litres of crude ,27,150 litres of Auyomotive  Gas oil, 550 assorted rounds of ammunition, 12 cacalibres of weapons, seven empty. The burning of the vessel drew criticisms from some quarter  with the house of Representatives, on Tuesday cautioning the military and order security agencies.

About 100 top officers including Generals, Brigadier Generals, Air Vice Marshals, and Admirals in the Nigerian Army, Navy and Airforce may proceed on compulsory retirement following the appointment of new service chiefs on monday by President Tinubu. aside from the imminent gale of retirement, many officers would be promoted to thier next rank to fill the vacancies that would be created by the retiring generals as part of the reorganisation of the services of the new service chiefs. Tinubu announced the immediate retirement of General Lucky Irabor, Chief of Defense Staff, Lt.General Farouk Yahaya Chief of Army Staff, Vice Admiral awwal gambo Chief of Naval Staff and Air Marshal Oladayo Amoo Chief of Air Staff and replaced them with new military chiefs. The new chiefs are Major General Christopher Musa Chief of Defense Staff, Major General Taoreed Lagbaja Chief of Army Staff, Real Admiral Emmauel Ogalla Chief of Naval Staff and Air Vice Marshal Hassan Abubakar Chief of Air Staff. DIG Kayode Egbetokun was appointed Inspector General of Police. 

The Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria has decried the spate of bullying, abduction, assault and murder of school children in different parts of the country. On June 19, 2021, a 14-year-old pupil of Premiere Academy, Abuja, Karen-Happuch Akpagher, was allegedly raped in her school and a condom was left in her private part. On January 21, a senior pupil of Elkanemi College of Islamic Theology, Maiduguri, slit the throat of Jubril Mato, while in Kano, Hanifa Abubakar was allegedly kidnapped and killed by the principal of her school. Schoolchildren have also become targets of terrorists and kidnappers.

The groaning occasioned by the removal of the fuel subsidy grew louder on Monday as the Nigerian Labour Congress said it was ready to fight the economic pains and hardship caused by the Federal Government’s decision.University workers under the aegis of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the University of Lagos chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, The varsity unions decried the situation, saying the subsidy was ’unintelligently removed. ’The National Assistant Secretary, Chris Onyeka,“We are going to give the Federal Government an ultimatum. But they have refused to make amends. Let them prepare themselves because we are preparing. We are ready to fight back, ” he said, The product currently sells for between N568 and N617 per litre.

The Defence Headquarters has reported that troops have killed 36 terrorists and arrested 143 criminals in the last two weeks, while also rescuing 140 kidnapped citizens across Nigeria. The Director of Defence Media Operations, Maj. Gen. Edward Buba, disclosed this during the biweekly briefing of the military in Abuja on Thursday. Troops of Operation Safe Haven recovered three AK-47 rifles, three Dane guns, one locally-fabricated pistol, one locally-made gun, 23 rounds of 7.62mm special, one cartridge, three mobile phones, a piece of camouflage, and a jackknife. Troops of Operation Whirl Stroke recovered one pistol, 40 rounds of 7.62mm special, four rounds of 7.62mm NATO, two G3 magazines, one vehicle, one motorcycle, one mobile phone, and a pair of black boots. Additionally, troops neutralized one terrorist, arrested 13 suspects, and rescued nine kidnapped hostages. Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji recovered one AK47 rifle, four AK47 rifle magazines, two rounds of 7.62mm special ammo, one motorcycle, and 80 livestock. 20 kidnapped hostages were freed by troops of Operation Hadarin Daji. The military also arrested 15 oil thieves and recovered the sum of N3.17m in the Niger Delta region. Troops also destroyed 61 dugout pits, 32 wooden boats, 87 storage tanks, one speedboat, 32 cooking ovens, three outboard engines, one generator, two pumping machines, and 36 illegal refining sites. The recovered items, arrested suspects, and rescued hostages were handed over to the relevant authorities for further action.