The Founder of Israel United In Christ, Nathaniel Israel has blamed former US President Barack Obama for the elongation of Boko Haram insurgency in the country.

He said the US Government under Obama refused to sell arms to Nigeria except with the condition to imbibe gay marriage.

Nathaniel Israel also believes that some powerful western countries were behind the supply chains of ammunitions to Boko Haram.

The Founder of Israel United In Christ said solution to Nigeria’s problem is to uphold the God’s commandments

The Northern Coalition for Peace and Development, has asked the Federal Government to initiate talks with bandits towards ending banditry and other crimes across the country.

The group’s National Secretary, Alhaji Attahiru Adamu, at a press briefing held in Kaduna said that the clamour for the sack of the nation’s service chiefs was unnecessary and would be counterproductive in the fight against insurgency.

He also asked the Federal Government to emulate the governments of Zamfara, Katsina and Sokoto states that doused tension in the state by holding talks with bandits.

Attahiru Adamu said majority of those calling for the sack of service chiefs are not sincere as they fail to offer reasonable alternative before now to the President on how to tackle issues of security.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has given approval to six dairy companies to import milk into the country.

The move is part of efforts aimed at bridging the supply gap of the product as the government pursues its backward integration strategy to make the country self-sufficient in milk production.

The development was confirmed in a circular issued by the CBN dated February 11, 2020, and signed by the Director, Trade and Exchange Department, Dr Ozoemena Nnaji.

The apex bank said the approval was given in line with its objective to increase and improve the local production of milk, its derivatives and other dairy products in the country.

There are strong indications that fresh moves by the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities to resolve the lingering crisis over the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System had again hit a brick wall.

At the resumed negotiation yesterday, it was gathered that the Federal Government again rejected a model, the University Transparency and Accountability Solution, proposed by ASUU as an alternative to the IPPIS.

The Federal Ministry of Education’s Deputy Director of Press, Ben Goong, in an interview confirmed that the government had started negotiations with ASUU.

The Federal Government had last year directed its employees, including university lecturers, to register for the IPPIS, which is a centralized payment system introduced to check fraud.

But ASUU directed its members to shun the directive on the grounds that it negated the principle of university autonomy.