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Human Rights and Pro-democracy group, Foundation for Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development FENRAD, has decried the killings of security agents and citizens by mostly non-state actors happening across the southeast region.
The rights group lamented that the recent attack on a police formation at Nwaezenyi in Izzi local government area of Ebonyi State.
FENRAD, in a release by its Executive Director, Nelson Nnanna Nwafor and made available to DAILY POST on Monday, warned that the security situation in the Southeast, if not fully and duly addressed, may plunge a hitherto peaceful region into primitive Hobbessian nature state where life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
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The terrorists launched multiple assaults in Damasak and Gajiram within Mobbar and Nganzai Local Government Areas respectively.
One of the groups hit a military Super Camp, the second attacked another position along the Maiduguri road, while the third infiltrated through the northern axis.
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) deployed a jet to support ground troops during the invasion.
Two-gun trucks and scores of terrorists were destroyed and killed. Just before the latest strike, the terrorists met at Garin Wanzam, where they strategized.
The military believes the attacks were a tactic to distract the Air Task Force aggressor with night capability. The aircraft conducts regular air raids.
Environmental Rights Advocacy and Development, FENRAD, a Pro-democracy and Environmental justice group, has tasked Governor Dave Umahi on the security of
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The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this on Wednesday.
Ahmed described the allegation by Obaseki as untrue and sad.
Obaseki had said: “When we got FAAC (Federal Account Allocation Committee) for March, the government printed additional N50-N60 billion to top-up for us to share.
“This April, we will go to Abuja and share. At the end of this year, our total borrowings is going to be within N15-N16 trillion.”
However, Ahmed insists Nigeria’s debt is still within sustainable limit and efforts are on to improve revenue generation capacity.