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The Presidency on Thursday published a checklist of its security achievements to date, ahead of the Armed Forces Remembrance Day scheduled for Friday.
“January 15 every year is commemorated as Armed Forces Remembrance Day,” spokesman Femi Adesina said in a statement.
“As the milestone is marked this year, it also provides ample opportunity to chronicle current landmark achievements by our military in tackling security challenges in the land, towards fulfilling the constitutional requirement of Government guaranteeing the protection of lives and property.
Listed among the achievements were the restoration of some sanity in Borno State post-2015, the weakening of Boko Haram, the decimation of thousands of insurgents, and the purchase of new equipment for the military.
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The Nigeria Customs Service on Thursday announced that the joint border patrol team known as the Operation Swift Response apprehended over 1,400 illegal immigrants and seized about 160,000 bags of rice in the past 16 months.
It stated that as of January 5, 2021, a total of 1,401 irregular migrants had been arrested, while the total seizures were 159,506.7 (50kg) bags of parboiled foreign rice.
Others include 10,447 bags of NPK fertilisers used for making explosives; 1,974 vehicles; 895 motorcycles; 18,690.3 jerrycans of vegetable oil, etc.
“The total monetary value of the apprehended items is about N12,538,333,545.5,” the Public Relations Officer, NCS, Joseph Attah, said in a statement issued in Abuja.