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Senate in close session with Security Chiefs, others over insecurity

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  Senate on Thursday at plenary went into closed session with some heads of security agencies in the country. The closed session followed the invitation of the security chiefs by the Senate, following the rising insecurity situation in the country. According to reports, the Service Chiefs that were present at the meeting include the Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Lucky Irabor, Chief of Army Staff Maj.-Gen Attahiru Ibrahim, and the Acting Inspector-General of Police (I-G), Mr Usman Baba. Also in attendance were the Directors – General, Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) Maj.-Gen Samuel Adebayo, National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ahmed Abubakar, and Department of State Services (DSS),Yusuf Magaji Bichi. President of Senate, Ahmad Lawan, before the closed session, while welcoming the Service Chiefs said their invitation was in pursuant to the resolution of the Senate to brief it on the security situation in the country. He assured the officials that the Senate and indeed the
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Nigeria records 52 new COVID-19 infections, 2 deaths

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  The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has registered additional two new related COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours. The agency’s statistics showed that 2,065 Coronavirus related deaths had been recorded across the 36 states of the Federation and FCT since the beginning of the pandemic in Nigeria. The NCDC said that 52 new COVID-19 infections were recorded as of Wednesday evening. The agency said that the newly recorded COVID-19 cases were reported across six states and the FCT. According to the report, Taraba led with 18 new infections, FCT recorded nine, Rivers –nine, Lagos- seven, Akwa Ibom – six, Kano- two and Kaduna – one. The NCDC noted that with the additional infections, the cumulative COVID-19 caseload in the country stood at 165,273. The health agency added that since the pandemic broke out in the country in February 2020, the nation had carried out 1,939,165 million tests in the 36 states of the federation including FCT. It also disclosed that the
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