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     President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to do everything possible to keep Nigeria as one. President Buhari who bore his mind at Emir’s Palace, Katsina during the beginning of his two day official visit to the state Monday, recalled with nostalgia colossal lives that were lost during the Nigerian civil war all in a bid to ensure our unity. “I always say the civil war was fought for the unity of Nigeria because as at the time we have not even discovered oil let alone enjoying it, and we must not also forget that about two million people were killed”. Buhari lamented that it was rather unfortunate that “recently, some people who were not even born then are saying they want to divide Nigeria”. The President noted “with the way Sahara is advancing, with Boko Haram, growing number of people and uncertainty over rainfall, in a land where we fought civil war leading to the death of about two million, it would be foolhardy for someone to just say he would chase us away”. Buhari

      Journalists s were barred from covering the proceedings of the trial of two Major Generals being court-martialed in Abuja, Monday. The Generals on trial are Major General Patrick Falola, former commander of 68 Nigerian Army reference hospital, Yaba, and Major General Ibrahim Sani, former Chief of Army Transportation and Innovation center. The court martial was inaugurated at the Army Headquarters Garrison, Mogadishu Cantonment, Abuja on Thursday. File: Members of a court martial Deputy Director Information, Army Headquarters Garrison, Abuja, Colonel Ali Yusuf, said journalists were exempted from the trial so as not to jeopardize operations of the army adding that they will be briefed about the verdict of the trial in due course.. Recall that Thursday  last week, a Special Court Martial has as  President, Air Vice Marshal James Gbum, who is the Chief of Policy and Plans (COPP) at NAF headquarters, noted that the senior officers were to be tried pursuant to a convening o