Union Minister of State (MoS) for Information and Broadcasting L Murugan, who is on a four-day visit to Sri Lanka, visited Thalaimannar from where ferry services are proposed to be resumed between the two nations to enhance business exchanges.
Suspected terrorists have killed the Chief Imam of Nomadic Central Mosque at Rugan Ardo, Isyaka Adamu and a son of a Fulani chief and abducted 14 others in the Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State. This was confirmed by a resident of the community identified as Shehu Ibrahim, who said that the terrorists raided Janjala community and abducted eight people before proceeding to Rugan Ardo, a few kilometres away and abducting six people after killing one of the sons of the Ardo, Alhaji Husaini Ardo.