Among the headlines for Tuesday, a total of 7,000 firefighters, who are also frontliners, have registered to receive the Covid-19 vaccine in the first phase of the National Immunisation Programme.

Also, the armed gang who abductedl 279 girls from a boarding school in northwest Nigeria, in the town of Jangebe , have released all of them earlier today, unharmed.

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