The Adamawa state government has announced the distribution of N611 million in intervention funds to 5,000 households in Yola-South affected by the flood in the state. The state Deputy Governor, Professor Kaletapwa George Farauta, made the disclosure in her office, saying food and non-food items are to be shared with victims of the Lamurde communal crisis. Farauta said the delay in distributing the fund is to enable the state emergency committee to authenticate the exact...

Officials of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) have reunited seven victims of human trafficking with their families in Dambatta local government area of Kano state. The victims, who were transferred to NAPTIP by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), were received last Saturday by the Kano/Jigawa Zonal Command of the agency. According to a statement by the Kano Zonal Command spokesperson of agency, Mohammed Habeeb on Wednesday...

An inferno has destroyed property worth about N1.1 billion in two separate fire incidents at the Gombe timber and scrap markets within one month. The latest fire incident occurred on Monday night at the Kasuwan Katako (Timber Market), and destroyed goods valued at over N600m. The Executive Secretary of the Gombe State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Alhaji Abdullahi Haruna Abdullahi, said assessments were ongoing, adding that the fire was suspected to have been caused by...