These are the top five stories you should monitor today.

1. IPOB, MASSOB members killed in Anambra were heavily armed – Buratai

Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai has said the Army has proof that pro-Biafra agitators who were killed during a brawl with soldiers in Onitsha, Anambra State were armed.

2. Maiduguri is now safer than most state capitals – Shettima

Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima has said the state capital, Maiduguri is safer than most state capitals, especially Lagos and Abuja.

3. Reports of alliance with Tinubu, other APC members false – PDP BoT chair

Chairman Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Walid Jibrin has dismissed reports that there is a merger talk with the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, and others.

4. Why we killed Dangote’s HRM – kidnappers

Killers of the Human Resources Manager of Dangote Industries Limited, Istifanus Bello said he was killed because he brought an incomplete ransom.

5. IPOB launches Operation David Dance, tells members to avoid the army

Just weeks after the Nigerian Army launched the Operation Python Dance in the South East, the Indigenous People of Biafra has launched the Operation David Dance.

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