First he heard voices, then the sputter of gunfire. Kaka crept behind an acacia tree and froze in terror. The teen was returning home after gathering firewood late one July afternoon in.
In documents obtained by SaharaReporters, the military listed names of over 2,371 soldiers who have been deployed to the area since 2016, 2017 and in later years, who are yet to be rotated from the North-East area.
Amnesty International (AI), on Tuesday, expressed deep concern about the safety of thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Borno State, who
Let the NYSC be
Mon Jun 28 2021
When the bill sponsored by Awaji-Inombek Abiante to scrap the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) came before the House of Rep., I watched the unfolding events with a deep sense of déjà vu.
Abiante, who represents Andoni-Opobo/Nkoro Constituency of Rivers State, said that the whole idea behind setting up the scheme is being jeopardised by the incessant killings and kidnappings of corps members in some geographical regions of the country due to ‘banditry, religious extremism and ethnic violence’. He claimed that it is even in view of these considerations that ‘the NYSC management now gives considerations to posting corps members to their geopolitical zone, thus defeating one of the objectives of setting up the service corps, i.e. developing common ties among the Nigerian youths and promotion of national unity and integration’.