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Now we've seen a relative decline.

Things have been steady for a while now security-wise.

Apart from the kidnap or the mass kidnap of the prospective corps members, we didn't have that much, unlike when we were discussing the Oyo State saga and the Borno State saga.

So now that we have temporary respite, have we forgotten about our agitation for state police? Suddenly, now that we have some form or some iota of relief, should we totally now forget and jettison this idea of state police? Now, this is the danger of doing anything during an election period.

On the military front, the federal government faces persistent capable threats.

In Borno State, the Islamic State West Africa Province, or ISWAP, retains significant operational capacity.

[lip smack] As evidenced by a recent verified report of an execution carried out by the group in Konduga.

And the Nigerian security apparatus is also managing the strain of unexpected operational losses, notably the recent crash of a military aircraft in Ondo State.

One of the region's bandit gangs was likely responsible.

The Nigerian military, meanwhile, is claiming that it killed, quote, more than 40 Islamic State West Africa province fighters, including a senior commander, end quote, in airstrikes in northeastern Nigeria's Borno State also on Saturday.

In Ethiopia, the Ethiopian military reportedly entered the town of Adwa in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region on Sunday without resistance.

Adwa is just 40 kilometers from the Eritrean border, which suggests that Tigray People's Liberation Front fighters, as well as any Eritrean forces that have allegedly entered Ethiopia, have been pushed back to the border itself.

Yeah.

And when you come, make sure you go to Borno State, because Zara is actually a Borno princess, so [laughs]

Are you from Lagos?

Yeah, well.

Um, other success that we've had is, um, actually fostering a public-private partnership that is-

Mm

... set to kick in, um, in Borno State for, um, manufacturing of Tom Brown.

It started off, it has started off as just Tom Brown, but then when we got the investors and the state, uh, together, they've actually now considered expanding beyond that into, into so many other things.

They said they, they've started.

Borno, they've started to some extent, but-

It's not that they said they have started.

Didn't you see it on TV?

Nigeria.

Military officials say Islamic State-affiliated militants killed several soldiers in an attack on a military base in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno on Tuesday.

The Associated Press cites a senior military officer as saying 10 soldiers were killed.

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Lagos police arrest 80 suspects to recover firearms.

Army repels ISWAP attack in Borno.

Nigeria.

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it's 10 grams, you said that's $30 million to you.

And he made reference to the time, some time ago in Borno, when government struck us at this French CSO that they need to leave that place immediately.

He said it was linked.

A lot of foreign...

Nighttime travel, overcrowding and poor safety standards have contributed to deadly boat accidents in the country.

At least twenty-eight villagers have been killed in Borno State in northeastern Nigeria by suspected Boko Haram fighters.

An anti-jihadist militia leader, Bubakura Kolo, told the Agence France-Presse news agency that fifteen bodies were found and buried on Thursday in the village of Marte.

Another fifteen bodies were found over the weekend in nearby bushes.