“That is the only way we can reduce the number that is building everyday and contain the virus.”
carrying no fewer than 30 Quoranic education pupils “Almajiri” at the Gakem-Benue border in Cross River.
She said the trucks were intercepted by the Commissioner for Youths and Skills Acquisitions, Mr Signor Idiege, with a team of security operatives on enforcing the ”No Entry” directive of the government at the border. “It is important for the Federal Government to support these people where they are rather than allow them move from one part of the country to the other.
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