Suspected gunmen have attacked Jos Aviation quarters in the Heipang area of Plateau state and abducted a housewife.
It was gathered the gunmen gained entrance into the quarters at about 8.15 pm and started shooting sporadically.
A source said that three persons were kidnapped, including a wife and the husband.
But the husband and other staff were later able to struggle their way to freedom with the gunmen only leaving with the housewife.
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President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has called on the international community to further collaborate on tackling some of the major threats across the globe, which include terrorism, insurgency, reiterating that the growing challenges pose real threat to human existence.
President BUHARI said this while receiving Letters of Credence from High Commissioner of The Gambia, Mr MOHAMADOU MUSA NJIE, Ambassador of South Korea, Mr KIM YOUNG-CHAE, and 4 others at the State House.
The President urged diplomats to work towards building stronger relations, with focus on providing joint solutions to rising human and natural challenges.
A new and potentially troublesome variant of the coronavirus has been detected in India, as have variants first detected in the United Kingdom, South Africa and Brazil.
Health Ministry officials and experts, however, cautioned against linking the variants with an ongoing surge in new infections in India.
Cases in India had been plummeting since September and life was returning to normal. But cases began spiking last month and more than 47,000 new infections were detected in the past 24 hours, along with 275 deaths — the highest one-day death toll in more than four months.
The virus has been mutating throughout the pandemic. Most mutations are trivial, but scientists have been investigating which ones might make the virus spread more easily or make people sicker.
The three variants first detected in South Africa, Britain and Brazil are considered the most worrisome and have been designated “variants of concern.” The three variants were found in 7% of the nearly 11,000 samples that India sequenced since Dec. 30. The most widespread of these was the more contagious variant that was detected in the UK last year.
The new variant found in India has two mutations in the spiky protein that the virus uses to fasten itself to cells, said Dr. Rakesh Mishra, the director of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, one of the 10 research institutes sequencing the virus.
He added that these genetic tweaks could be of concern since they might help the virus spread more easily and escape the immune system, but he cautioned against linking it to the surge.
The Health Ministry said in a statement that the variant was found in 15%-20% of the samples sequenced from Maharashtra state. The state, which is home to India’s financial capital, has been worst hit by the recent surge and accounts for over 60% of all active cases in India.
The governor says the hijab policy was taken in the overall interest of all parties.
Kwara State governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, says the Christian and Muslim communities in the state must work together to resolve the crisis caused over the wearing of hijab in missionary schools.
The governor was forced to shut down 10 Christian missionary schools last month after owners prevented female Muslim students from wearing the head covering on school premises.
The schools are grant-aided by the government, and by virtue of the 2006 Kwara State Education Law considered public schools where all faiths have religious freedom.
The government's resolution that the students can wear the hijab was met with opposition from the Christian community forcing the government to shut down the schools again earlier in March.
The reopening of the schools last week was met with violence as both faith communities physically clashed, raising fears of a religious crisis in the state.
Governor AbdulRazaq in a statewide broadcast on Tuesday, March 23, 2021 said the government's hijab policy was taken in the overall interest of all parties.
While acknowledging the apprehension of the affected faith communities, the governor said his administration will take genuine steps to address all the concerns raised to arrive at decisions that will ensure sustainable peace.
He said the starting point of the reconciliation process will be the reconstitution of an interfaith committee to further build confidence as well as provide templates to steadily resolve all issues of mutual concerns.
"My profound appeal goes to all our leaders to prioritize communal peace and human brotherhood.
"We need to join hands to build a generation of future leaders who acknowledge and respect one another's differences," he said.
Governor AbdulRazaq hailed security agencies for professionally cracking down on last week's troublemakers, and warned that any attempt to take advantage of the situation to foment trouble will be met with maximum punishment prescribed by the law.
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