The Governor of Borno State, Babagana Umara Zulum has yesterday visited Logumani, a community in Ngala Local Government Area where he approved the construction of 500 resettlement houses to accommodate returnees according to Maidawaarewa.

Residents of Logumani were among the people who were displaced as a result of the activities of Boko Haram insurgents for over seven years.

Zulum said he will support the residents of Logumani to enable them rebuild their homes, destroyed by insurgents, he also ordered the State Rural Water Supply Agency (RUWASA) to construct borehole that will address water needs of returning IDPs.

During the visit, Zulum spoke with residents of Logumani, who are taking refuge in Dikwa town and discussed on ways of returning them back to their ancestral homes, the governor did same in Kirawa town in Gwoza Local Government Area where he supervised the resettlement of over 2,500 households.

Maidawaarewa reports that the governors visits mainly focused on building, supervising or allocating newly built resettlement houses, distributing cash and food aid, supplying agricultural packs to farmers, and meeting with military commanders to review security situations and deploy strengthening measures where necessary.

Those who went on the trip together with the governor were the member representing Ngala at the state assembly, Mustapha Dalatu, and that of Dikwa, Zakariya Dikwa, Former Commissioner of Agriculture and APC’s candidate for a house representatives seat, Engr. Bukar Talba and heads of relevant establishments of government involved with construction and reconstruction, provision of water, livelihoods and general human empowerment.

The Federal Government has linked the fighters of the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) to the attack on a Catholic church in Owo, Ondo State.

The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, disclosed this Thursday while briefing State House reporters after a meeting of the National Security Council presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

He said the government had been able to locate the perpetrators of the Owo attack and zeroed in on ISWAP terrorist group.

The minister, who briefed alongside Inspector-General of Police, Alkali Baba Usman, said security agencies had been directed to go after the perpetrators of the act and bring them to justice.

The minister said the group was out to pitch Nigerians against one another and make it appear as ethno-religious war.

He said there was no ethnic agenda in the attack, urging Nigerians to unite and defeat the terrorists.

Scores of worshippers were killed while others injured during Sunday’s attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo.

Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has warned the All Progressives Congress, APC, against contemplating what it describes as a national suicide of selecting a Muslim as Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s running mate.

The group warned that such moves would throw Nigeria into a religious crisis in the event that APC wins the 2023 election.

HURIWA said the election of a southerner as APC’s presidential candidate has restored National unity in Nigeria.

HURIWA urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to ensure the 2023 presidential election is free and fair to all, warning that anything short of level playing ground for all the candidates could lead to a civil war in the 2023 election.

According to HURIWA Nigerians will not be forced to accept the same kind of election robbery that allegedly took place in 2015 and 2019.

National leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Ahmed Tinubu defeated a former Governor of Rivers State, Chibuike Amaechi, to emerge the presidential candidate of the APC for the 2023 general elections.

HURIWA had earlier warned the APC, against picking a Northerner as its presidential candidate following the emergence of Atiku Abubakar as the flagbearer of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

HURIWA said it is now incumbent on all Nigerians to ensure that the President of Nigeria returns to the South and preferably to the South East.