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The administration will give unconditional amnesty to insurgents willing to lay down their arm says President Buhari The President stated this on Friday while receiving the freed Dapchi schoolgirls at the presidential Villa. Buhari said the security agencies would not hesitate to deal with those seeking political gains from the abduction. He also asked the security agencies to ensure that there is no repeat of students' abduction . Almost all the freed Dapchi schoolgirls had one skin infection or the other for not bathing for one month.

Former Minister of Water and Energy in Cameroon, Mr. Atangana Kouna, arrested in Nigeria and flown back home. According to police and local sources, Kouna was arrested amidst a crackdown on high-level corruption in the French African country, Reuters reported on Friday. There were speculations that Kouna was arrested as part of an anti-corruption drive known as Operation Sparrowhawk. Two other persons — a former Ministry of Public Works and the head of a state company, also an ex-rector of the University of Douala — were arrested earlier in the week as part of the operation.

The US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a $1.3 trillion compromise federal spending bill despite being “unhappy” with many of its provisions — thereby averting what would have been the third government shutdown of 2018. Trump said he signed the measure that had passed the Senate just hours earlier “as a matter of national security,” because it dramatically expands military funding and provides for “the largest pay increase” for US troops in over a decade. “There are a lot of things I’m unhappy about in this bill. There are a lot of things we shouldn’t have had in this bill but we were, in a sense, forced (to have) if we want to build our military,” he said in a hastily arranged media event at the White House.