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Nigerian press spotlights attack on Boko Haram insurgents in Lake Chad region, others

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The Guardian reports that to contain insurgency in the Lake Chad region, the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has conducted an operation, SHARAN FAGE, against Boko Haram terrorists, destroying their bunkers and killing several members of the sect.


The Guardian reports that to contain insurgency in the Lake Chad region, the Multinational Joint Task Force (MNJTF) has conducted an operation, SHARAN FAGE, against Boko Haram terrorists, destroying their bunkers and killing several members of the sect.

The exercise was conducted by troops drawn from Sector 3 Monguno (Nigeria) and Sector 4 Diffa (Niger).

The operation, which was supported by OP HADIN KAI (Nigeria), targeted Boko Haram/ISWAP insurgents hibernating in Mallam Fatori Town and fringes of Lake Chad.

 A statement yesterday by the Chief of Military Public Information, MNJTF, N’Djamena Chad, Colonel Muhammed Dole, stated: “In line with its mandate of support for facilitating willing Internally displaced persons and refugees to return voluntarily and safely to their ancestral homes, the MNJTF provided security for the continued security enhancement work in this area and would do so until the inhabitants return.”

“The operation also created a favourable atmosphere under which the festivities marking the 63rd anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Niger was peacefully conducted on December 18, 2021 in Diffa, with President Mohamed Bazoum in attendance. It should be noted that this was the first of such celebrations in many years.

“Troops met strong resistance from the terrorists, who launched several mortar attacks, laid Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) along the troops’ route of advance and initiated further onslaughts with Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Devices (VBIEDs),” it added.

The newspaper says that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, has assured Nigerians that the National Assembly will determine if reasons given by President Muhammadu Buhari for withholding assent to the Electoral Act Amendment Bill are good enough when legislators reconvene next year.

He disclosed this yesterday during the official commissioning of some road projects and stadiums he facilitated in Surulere Federal Consistency 1.

Buhari recently refused to sign the bill into law; his major reason being the inclusion of mandatory direct primaries for political parties. Nigerians and civil society groups, however, have called on lawmakers to either veto the President or remove the contentious clause and re-present the bill to the President.

Gbajabiamila, who pointed out that to override the President’s decision, the lawmakers need the support of two third of the members, said: “The President, in his wisdom, did it with good intention, based on advice he got and weighed everything carefully.

“When we come back to the House, we will determine if those reasons sit well with the National Assembly and maybe consider removing that clause and passing the bill, so that we do not throw away the baby with the bath water,” he said.

The Speaker observed that what Nigerians deserve is a credible electoral law and process, which they must get.
The Sun reports that in its commitment to make electricity readily to Nigerians, the Federal Government is seeking the support of African countries where the solution has already developed.

The government of Morocco has been contacted to boost Federal Government’s and Jigawa State in the direction solar energy initiatives implementation as a way of increasing energy availability in the northwest zone and other parts of the country.

Jigawa State’s Commissioner for Land, Housing, and Urban and Regional Planning, Sagir Musa Ahmed, unveiled the plan concerning this collaboration recently in the state during a media engagement forum at the Manpower Development Institute in Dutse by the Jigawa State Correspondent Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).

Ahmed declared that a portion of land of about 200,000 hectares in the state’s Gwiwa Local Council have been carved out to host the planned project noting that the solar power project is a Moroccan government initiative to improve electricity supplies in Nigeria.

He noted that the project is conducted in collaboration with Nigeria’s Federal Government and Jigawa’s state governments. “The project is ambitious, seeking to supply and improve electricity generation in the country, particularly in Zamfara, Jigawa, Katsina, and Yobe states,” he said.



The Punch reports that the Centre for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, an economic think tank, has said the “monetary and foreign exchange policy rigidities” of the Federal Government may disrupt the economic growth of the nation in 2022.

The Central Bank of Nigeria is responsible for monetary and forex policy in the country.

The centre made this known in its ‘2022 Economic Outlook’ report, a copy of which was obtained by our correspondent on Thursday. According to the organisation, there is no indication that the nation will shift from its current monetary and foreign exchange policy and this may hamper economic growth in 2022.

The centre said, “Monetary and foreign exchange policy rigidities may also pose a risk to the growth outlook as there are no indications of any significant shift in monetary and foreign exchange policy stance in the near term.

“Consequently, the distortions inherent in the foreign exchange market will persist in 2022. The constraining effect of the high Cash Reserve Requirement on financial intermediation would also persist in 2022 with a dampening effect on growth outlook.”

The newspaper says that about 80 per cent of agro-products from Nigeria that are intercepted and seized by the European Union member nations are exported illegally, the Federal Government has said.

It explained that most of the products were prohibited for exports by the government, adding that people illegally moved the items out of the country without clearance by the Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service.

The NAQS is a regulatory agency under the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development that harmonises plants, veterinary and aquatic resources quarantine in Nigeria.

It promotes and regulates sanitary and phytosanitary measures in connection with the import and export of agricultural products with a view to minimising the risk to agricultural economy, food safety and the environment.

The Director-General, NAQS, Vincent Isegbe, explained that the interception of agricultural exports from Nigeria by EU countries was basically due to the absence of the quarantine service in most Nigerian borders.

He disclosed this during an interview with our correspondent on the sidelines of the recent NAQS 3rd Director-General Summit and Management Retreat for officials of the agency and other stakeholders.

Isegbe said, “So far, in all the records that we have, of all the (agro-products) interceptions, between 80 to 82 per cent are all prohibited items.

The Nation reports that there was an uneasy calm yesterday as the deadline given by the Federal Government for subscribers to link their subscriber identity module (SIM) with their National Identity Number (NIN) lapsed.

Currently, there are over 101million subscribers that may be disconnected if the government carries out the threat to so at the expiration of the deadline.

President, National Association of Telecoms Subscribers (NATCOMS) Deolu Ogunbanjo said it will be grossly unfair if the Federal Government disconnect over 100million subscribers.

According to him, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) just came out to say there are 301 communities without internet access.

He said such communities will certainly be unable to sync their SIM with their NIN.

He urged the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to liaise with the Association of Licensed Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ALTON) to ascertain the extent of work that has been done in the NIN-SIM sync initiative.

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