A head of this year’s Eid-el-Kabir celebration, the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) Nigeria has issued security advisory to its staff members, alerting them of possible attacks in Maiduguri and locations in the North Eastern part of the country during the celebrations.
The Federal Government has declared Tuesday, August 21, and Wednesday, August 22 as public holidays to celebrate the 2018 Eid-el-Kabir.
In the security advisory document, marked ‘confidential’, the UNDSS said the alert was based not on specific information of any impending activities by extremists but on unconfirmed reports of planned attacks across Borno and other states in the North East. Read more