Presidency, yesterday, hailed youths in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states, who were said to be fully co-operating with security agencies to hunt and hand over insurgents to the military.
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It said that having carried out an assessment of the state of emergency declared by President Goodluck Jonathan in the three states, normalcy was gradually returning to the North-East of the country.
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The Presidency, in a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, yesterday, said that the National Emergency Management Agency and Borno State government had confirmed that only 126 Nigerians had so far been displaced by the operations, noting that the bulk of the refugees were Nigeriens.
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According to the Presidency, this was contrary to a report that 8,000 Nigerians were fleeing to Niger Republic as a result of the emergency rule.